Frank Schilling

Country:	Cayman Islands
Email:	john [at] JDDomains.net
Website:	[Official Business Website Official Business Website]
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Frank Schilling is an experienced domain name investor and operator. He lives in the Cayman Islands. He is a highly regarded Internet investor who saw, early on, the generic domain name business as a growth opportunity.

Frank Schilling has his own blog called Domain Name Sales Seven Mile, which he has been administering since 2007. He was the first person to suggest a public television program about domain investing, in 2002.

Background & Current Role

Frank Schilling was the Managing Director of Domain Name Sales Corp, which eventually became iRegistry.

However, Frank Schilling decided to do more than just sell domain names, and instead use his successful personal experience to help others with the administration of their own portfolios. Thus, Frank Schilling founded NAmedia in 2001. Since then NAmedia has become a leading domain name administrator.

In the beginning of 2011, Frank Schilling declared that business NAmedia he was able to make $7 million dollars from the sales of around 250 domains, "without trying to hard".

Frank Schilling and "The Domain Game"

In 2008, a reporter name David Kesmodel from WSJ published the book entitled, "The Domain Game", which describes the experiences of Frank Schilling and the evolution of the domain name industry, in which he played a very important role.

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ICM Registry, the entity behind the .xxx domain space, touted the fact that they got Frank Schilling involved in his first TLD launch ever. He was admitted into their Founders Program, which allowed some 35 companies bid access to over 1,500 names. Mr. Schilling acquired a number of domains, in a package worth a reported 7 figures. Those domains include live.xxx, hot.xxx, and free.xxx. He is required by the agreements involved in the Founders Program to develop the sites and not leave them as parked pages, which is a commonly associated activity with professional domainers, and the very one that ICM Registry was trying to avoid through its Founders Program. Mr. Schilling was later named in a IRP request, which is the ultimate contestation mechanism available through ICANN, by Manwin, a prominent porn provider that has also filed an Antitrust suit against ICM and ICANN. Frank Schilling was named because Manwin was pointing to the fact that the domain space was clearly not reserved strictly for members of the adult industry.

Its rumored that only several months after acquiring a substantial portfolio from ICM, Mr. Schilling is already leasing his names to various companies for some 5-figures per month.

New gTLD

In June 10 2012, Frank announced the launching of Uniregistry, its new company that would provide registry services for new gTLDs. The company also applied for domain name strings with ICANN, which was selected by its founders and will be revealed during the internet governing body's Big Reveal Day on June 13. According to Schilling the management team of Uniregistry is composed of domain name industry experts to ensure that the company provides the "most service-based and holistic approach registry operations" to registrants. He said, "Nothing is more important to us than the ongoing, long-term success of our namespaces, and the registrants we serve. Uniregistry has the rare combination of experience, infrastructure, and unwavering commitment required to make it happen." The company's infrastructure is designed and maintained by Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), a non profit organization dedicated in developing and distributing open source software and providing higg quality online and professional services and infrastructure for the internet community worldwide.

According to a report, Schilling invested $60 million dollars on UniRegistry and his target is for the company to operate 54 gTLDs including .lol and .home. These strings are highly desirable and will definitely be auctioned by ICANN. Google previously announced that it will apply for .lol while GoDaddy and other companies are applied for .home gTLD. Schilling said that his company will try to get the strings through the auction.

Videos

Watch Frank Schilling, along with other familiar ICANN participants, discuss the Multistakeholder Model. The video was produced with help from Google at ICANN 44 in June, 2012, in Prague. <videoflash>xR5csH7tIyc</videoflash>

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