Jean Guillon

Country:	France
Email:	jean[at]guillon.tel
Website:	[www,guillon.info www,guillon.info]
LinkedIn:	[Jean Guillon Jean Guillon]
Twitter:	@jeanguillon

Jean Guillon is an independent consultant in the domain name industry. He calls himself a new gTLD specialist. He provides marketing advice to entities who are interested in applying for new generic top level domain names (gTLDs) as well as identifying and connecting with proper investors. At present, Guillon is working on the developing DOTVINUM (.wine in English) project. He is also a writer/contributor of CircleID, a website dedicated in providing information about the internet infrastructure and domain name industry.

Education

Guillon holds a Master Degree in Marketing Management and Communication and a Bachelors of Science in Business. He also holds an Advance Technician Certificate (Brevet de Technicien Supérieur).

Career History

Before developing the the dotvinum gTLD, Guillon served as a gTLD consultant for INDOM from 2008 to 2011. He was responsible in providing feasibility studies, administrative and technical domain name management and marketing the services of the company for new gTLD applications. He served as International Development Business Manager for Cuzco, a company based in Luxembourg managing cuzco.lu and ofindo.co and Corporate Manager for Gandi SAS, a French registrar. He worked for both companies for four month in 2008 before joining INDOM. In 2007, he worked as Domain Name Consultant for RegisTrust, a domain name portfolio management and consulting firm and for CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.. In 2005, he served as Support of Officer for EURid, the registry operator for .eu ccTLD. He also worked for Aibus SAS as Domain Name Portfolio Manager, Traffic Manager for Sumo Communications and Website Developer for Caplaser.

ICANN Involvement

Guillon is active in providing comments and recommendations on different issues being discussed by the ICANN Community in the public forum. He was chosen as one of the volunteers for the GNSO Study Group on Use of Names of Countries and Territories on March 8, 2011.

Languages

He knows how to speak English, French, Italian and Spanish.

Generic Names Supporting Organization. Develops and recommends to the Board substantive policies relating to generic top-level domains and other responsibilities set forth in the Bylaws (ICANN Bylaws).