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Previously, Jothan was the Vice President of Business Development at [[Name Intelligence]], operators of [[Domain Tools]]. He worked there from from September 2004 to July of 2006, and prior to that he was a senior manager at [[ | Previously, Jothan was the Vice President of Business Development at [[Name Intelligence]], operators of [[Domain Tools]]. He worked there from from September 2004 to July of 2006, and prior to that he was a senior manager at [[Verisign]]'s Naming and Directory Services in engineering, and completed a 7 year career there in June of 2004. | ||
[[File:JoshuaCaricature.jpg|thumb|right|Joshua, Jothan's son, attending the March 2011 ICANN Meeting in San Francisco.]] | [[File:JoshuaCaricature.jpg|thumb|right|Joshua, Jothan's son, attending the March 2011 ICANN Meeting in San Francisco.]] | ||
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In the past decade, Jothan has been Technical Operator of 5 [[ccTLD]]s, 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. | In the past decade, Jothan has been Technical Operator of 5 [[ccTLD]]s, 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. | ||
Jothan is a member of [[ISOC]], a consulting member of [[CoCCA]], a frequent contributor to [[CircleID]], this Wiki, and [[ICANNWatch]].<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/in/jothanfrakes linkedin]</ref> | Jothan is a member of [[ISOC]], a consulting member of [[CoCCA]], a frequent contributor to [[CircleID]], this Wiki, and [[ICANNWatch]].<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/in/jothanfrakes linkedin]</ref> | ||
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Jothan Frakes is a new gTLD Industry Subject Matter Expert,[1] who understands the registry and registrar industries and secondary marketplace for new Top Level Domains and has held a number of leadership positions within the industry.
Recent Work[edit | edit source]
Jothan was most recently COO of Minds + Machines (from February 2009-April 2010), which is a consultancy on the domain name industry and is currently working to help new top level domain applicants understand the process and make the best solutions for their specific needs.
He is formerly the Senior Director of Strategy and Registry Relations at Oversee.net in the Domain Management division, where he worked with (SnapNames and Moniker) and with the Corporate Development team at Oversee.net in the area of Domain Portfolio Acquisitions and Industry Relations.[2]
Conference Participation[edit | edit source]
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 Domainer Meeting 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 the 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.[3] Jothan was the executive event producer for the 2005 and 2006 Domain Roundtable Conferences, responsible for all content, speakers, keynotes, sponsorship, and topics.
Career History[edit | edit source]
Previously, Jothan was the Vice President of Business Development at Name Intelligence, operators of Domain Tools. He worked there from from September 2004 to July of 2006, and prior to that he was a senior manager at Verisign's Naming and Directory Services in engineering, and completed a 7 year career there in June of 2004.
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.
Jothan is a member of ISOC, a consulting member of CoCCA, a frequent contributor to CircleID, this Wiki, and ICANNWatch.[4]