Elizabeth “Jake” Feinler got her start managing two different Network Information Centers—first the ARPANET and then the Defense Data Network—both at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California.

She was part of a team that created the first “white” and “yellow page” servers. From 1972 to 1989, she and her colleagues ran the Host Naming Registry, which regulated internet addresses before the likes of GoDaddy and Network Solutions.