The organization accountable for internet addresses has hired Fadi Chehade as its new arch executive.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) is confronting critique over its handling of new tip turn domains.
Mr Chehade, before of IBM, will reinstate Rod Beckstrom who had been in post given June 2009.
Mr Chehade will consequence $560,000 (360,000) a year, in addition to up to $240,000 (154,000) in probable bonuses.
Earlier this month, Icann suggested sum of applications for new domains to increase to the existing suffixes such as .com, .net and so on.
For the initial time, companies could solicit law names, such as .microsoft.
The skeleton have drawn burly critique from a few quarters. In the US, 87 companies sent a petition to the US Department of Commerce, arguing that the skeleton would emanate "excessive cost and damages to brand owners" and the "likelihood of ravenous cyberharm to consumers".
Speaking to the Associated Press, Mr Chehade said: "Anything new similar to this is going to emanate angst and controversy, and it's going to emanate opportunity."
Mr Beckstrom will leave his post on 1 July, with Mr Chehade set to take over on 1 October.
Chief working executive Akram Atallah, who worked with Mr Chehade in a previous role, will head the firm in the interim.
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