Jothan Frakes
Jothan Frakes is Chief Operating Officer of Minds and Machines, a registry service provider and consultancy for new top level domain applicants such as .NYC with the City of New York, .Radio with BRS Media and the National Association of Broadcasters, and .ECO with the Sierra Club, Surf Rider Foundation, Al Gore and the Alliance for Climate Protection.
He is formerly the Senior Director of Strategy and Registrar and Registry Relations at Oversee.net in the Domain Management division (SnapNames and Moniker) and worked with the Corporate Development team at Oversee.net in the area of Domain Portfolio Acquisitions and Industry Relations as well as the foundation of the DomainFest conferences.
Jothan also is a public speaker on the domain marketplace, having spoken and moderated in multiple domain name trade shows. In addition to speaking at CENTR in 2006 and 2008, the DomainerMeeting in Paris, Jaipa’s BOF at the 2007 Interop in Tokyo, and the 2006 Technical Workshop in Frankfurt for Denic, he recently moderated panels at DomainFest, TARGETED TRAFFIC in the US and Australia, and Domain Roundtable, as well as special workshops on the Domain Marketplace at the Sao Paulo, Brazil and Marrakech, Morocco ICANN meetings in December and July of 2006, moderated a tutorial panel on the domain aftermarket at the meetings in Lisbon, Portugal in March of 2007, participated in an ALAC tutorial on Domain Tasting at the San Juan, Puerto Rico meetings in June of 2007, and spoke at both INTEROP Tokyo and HostingCon 2007 Chicago on the overall domain name marketplace, helping grow education and awareness.
Previously, Jothan was the Vice President of Business Development at Name Intelligence, operators of Domain Tools and was the founder and executive event producer for the 2005 and 2006 Domain Roundtable Conferences, responsible for all content, speakers, keynotes, sponsorship, and topics.
He has specialized in Domain Name technical operations and DNS since 1993, with a particular career focus on ccTLD and gTLD operations and the ccTLD industry, NANOG, and the ICANN process.
In the past decade, Jothan has been Technical Operator of 5 ccTLDs, and CTO of a registrar/registry company, and is versed in the provisioning and delivery systems for registration and resolution systems used in TLD operations.
Prior to joining DomainSponsor, Jothan was a vice president of business development at Name Intelligence from September 2004 to July of 2006, and prior to that a senior manager at VeriSign Naming and Directory Services in engineering, and completed a 7 year career there in June of 2004.
Jothan is a member of the ISOC, a frequent contributor to CircleID, ICANNWiki, and ICANNWatch. He is an inventor on some interesting domain industry technology, and is currently authoring a book on the Domain Name Industry, which is a project that hopefully will conclude by the end of 2009.
