Meet Our Team

Raymond, or Ray, has been a noted innovator and entrepreneur since he started a company while still in high school. His next project, Semaphore, Inc., was created during his sophomore year at M.I.T., and began as a project management software package. By 1990, it was rated #1 in its space by ARCHITECTURE magazine, and grew to over 100 employees, serving 2,500+ clients. Ray went on to co-found SnapNames.com. It was his first major role in the domain name space and they invented several new ways for people to acquire domain names; it grew to more than $49 million in annual revenue by 2006.

Ray has had a personal passion for wikis for years, which even led him to found ICANNWiki, a vibrant wiki resource that links together the ICANN ecosystem. He is a native and long-time resident of New York City, but has been in Portland Ore. since co-founding SnapNames.com - his current farm outside the city, complete with tractor and goats, is a definite but welcome departure from his days in Manhattan. He led Top Level Design in the application, acquisition, operation and sale of TLDs which include .design, .gay, .wiki, .ink and .tattoo. Currently, he is the CEO of Domain Name Registrar Porkbun.com.

Marc has actively participated in ICANN for over 20 years and regularly advises some of the largest registries, registrars, e-commerce, social media, search engine, and other online platform providers. He participated in over 40 new gTLD applications in the first round of gTLD applications and has advised registries and registrars in the purchase and sale of their businesses, portfolios, and TLDs. He is also counsel to the Brand Registry Group which is the leading trade association for .Brand TLDs.

Based on his experience as a software consultant focused on enterprise class software-as-a-service offerings and obtaining the first ICANN-accreditation for a law-firm owned domain name registrar and running all aspects of the registrar business, Marc is well positioned to advise and assist domain name registrars, registries, and virtually all manner of online platforms and intermediaries including:

• ICANN compliance issues
• Registry/Registrar agreements and policies
• Platform policies and intellectual property issues
• New gTLD applications and issues
• Sale and acquisition of new gTLD registries
• Co-promotion and other partnership programs
• Review, negotiation, and drafting of technology usage, licensing, and development agreements