Lol true but if you're asking about domaining industry, it got to be Kevin Ham for this. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/06/01/100050989/index.htm
Influential how? There is a lot of people on many different sides of the fence. There is the ICA. There are the lawyers defending names. There is cadna on the other side of the fence. There is icann. There is verisign. There are some big industry names as mentioned here.