Jothan Frakes is a trusted New gTLD industry expert who understands the registry and registrar industries and secondary marketplace for new Top Level Domains, and has held a number of senior leadership positions within the industry.A strong advocate of new Top Level Domain names and Internationalized Domain Names, Jothan is a volunteer with the Mozilla Foundation, aiding with the Public Suffix List and currently serving as Executive Director for The Domain Name Association. He is co-founder and executive producer of the NamesCon conference. Jothan is active in media and 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.