Raymond King
Raymond King co-founded SnapNames in 2000, and was its CEO until March of 2005, where he handed the reigns over to Sudhir Bhagwan. Prior to SnapNames, he was CEO of Semaphore, Inc. - a New York based Architectural/Engineering Financial software company, which was sold to Deltek Systems, Inc. Raymond is currently involved in a new venture, AboutUs, Inc. who's goal is to create an editable space for website owners where they can engage in conversations with their markets.
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| Country: | USA |
| Email: | raymondking [at] gmail.com |
| Facebook: |  [Raymond King Raymond King]
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| Twitter: |  @rathbone
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Progress
Using 4 Apple II computers and his bedroom, taught folks BASIC programming and popular applications such as Visicalc and dBase II.
After 1 year of college, Ray took time off to start MicroTrek Enterprises with 2 CPA's from Price Waterhouse.
- Semaphore, Inc. (1986-2000)
Wrote financial management software for his father's architectural firm and eventually started a company to go with that. The product, Sema4, is used by approximately 2,500 firms in the U.S. that are between the sizes 10 and 1,000 employees. Semaphore, Inc. ultimately grew to 100+ employees split across 4 offices (New York, California, Minnesota and Oregon) and was sold to Deltek Systems, Inc. on August 9th of 2000.
- SnapNames, Inc. (2000-2005)
In the fall of 2000, Ray moved to Portland, Oregon to co-found SnapNames. SnapNames is in the business of helping people acquire domain names as they expire and become available again to the general public. SnapNames was acquired by Oversee.net in 2007.
- ICANNWiki.org
Ray has always been a big fan of collaborative technologies, and in early 2005 got bitten by the wiki-bug. For this, he credits his friend John Stanton who is always making him look at new stuff.
His first wiki project was ICANNWiki. The domain name business introduced him to ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
- WikiIndex.org
The next wiki he worked on is the WikiIndex is a listing of all wikis in the world that we can find. The WikiIndex's roots was a site called SwitchWiki -- MarkDilley's original comprehensive list of wikis that he had compiled over the years. WikiIndex is a great way to see what's happening in the wiki world and as well find wikis that cover many different subject matters. There are over 3,500 wikis listed by topic, wiki engine, language, edit mode and activity. What's best is that it is itself a wiki.
- AboutUs, Inc. (2006 - Present)
Like WikiIndex, the foundation is a page for every site, but because it encompasses the entire web there can be more synergy between pages and this metadata then becomes the starting point of a guide to the Internet that we all can use.[1]