Frakes on a Plane

I started a new company with Antony Van Couvering called Minds + Machines, and we’ll be posting over there at that blog about professional domain matters and new TLDs.

http://www.mindsandmachines.com/blog

-J

Congratulations to Michele Neylon, who has won two categories this evening at the IIA Net Visionary Awards

Irish Internet Association’s 2008 Net Visionary Awards.

Michele won for both Best Business Blogger, and Online Marketing categories.

CONGRATULATIONS, Michele!

This just in, the new TLD process guidelines are posted, as promised by ICANN a few weeks in advance of the Cairo Public meeting.

http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtld-draft-rfp-24oct08-en.pdf

I am often referred to as a domain name industry sherpa.

I am blessed in that my father is a very talented and spirtiual person who is very creative.  He is the sherpa to a sherpa, so to speak.

A local feature was done on him recently.

http://510report.org/2008/10/21/niles-artist-ed-frakes/

Dad, you’re my compas.  Keep painting…

I had the privilege to speak at the CENTR General Assembly in Pisa, to discuss the marketplace and how new TLDs can be assimilated into the marketplace via the registrar channel.

https://www.centr.org/main/lib/g1/4622-CTR.html

It may prove to be like taking a small sip from a fireplug with the number of applications coming, so potential applicants would benefit from taking a look at the presentation.

DotME, the collaboration between Afilias, GoDaddy, and DoMen seems to have launched with some success, and I am the proud registrant of jothan.me.  Congratulations to all those that registered and participated.

I am now the registrant of jothan.asia, which is now on the giant shelf of extensions I have my first name registered in.  I am now a multicultural ubergeek.