Jothan Frakes
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| Email: | jothan [at] gmail.com | ||||
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Jothan Frakes is a New gTLD industry 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.
Jothan is active at industry conferences such as DOMAINfest, T.R.A.F.F.I.C., NewDomains.org, dot-nxt, as a respected speaker, panelist, moderator, and event emcee.[2] He has been a highly active ICANN participant since ICANN's inception.
Recent Work[edit | edit source]
Jothan was most recently the Senior Vice President of Channel Management at Sedari, and previously was the COO of Minds + Machines (from February 2009 to April 2010); he 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.[3]
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; he moderated a tutorial panel on the domain aftermarket at the meeting in Lisbon, Portugal in March of 2007, and participated in an ALAC tutorial on Domain Tasting at the San Juan, Puerto Rico meeting in June of 2007, and spoke at both INTEROP Tokyo and HostingCon 2007 Chicago on the overall domain name marketplace.[4] Jothan was the executive event producer for the 2005 and 2006 Domain Roundtable Conferences, responsible for all content, speakers, keynotes, sponsorship, and topics. He has also been involved in both .nxt conferences held in 2011.[5]
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.[6]
Mr. Frakes invented a number of Verisign's technology patents. He is also a volunteer with the Mozilla foundation.[7]
Video Interviews[edit | edit source]
Jothan was interviewed by Ray King during ICANN 50 in London: <videoflash>wrwW1YqmnYE</videoflash>
Fun Fact[edit | edit source]
Jothan is referred to as "The Mayor of ICANN".[8]
Special Caricatures[edit | edit source]
Jothan was featured as the King of Spades in the Senegal Playing Card Deck.
