MindsAndMachines.com helps you create your own ICANN Top Level Domain GTLD registry
Professional help with top-level domains
Thinking about starting a new top-level domain? Consulting firm Minds + Machines can make the process simpler, clearer and affordable.
The firm's top level domain experts will:
- Evaluate your idea
- Guide you step by step through the ICANN application process
- Help you raise money
- Provide you the most cost-efficient technical solution as you roll out your TLD
Minds + Machines' consulting fees may be fully rebated from registration revenue once your TLD is up and running.
The world-class experts at Minds + Machines start with a complimentary evaluation of each client's needs. Their systematic, results-focused process saves clients money while creating the foundation for a stable, healthy and profitable top-level domain business.
"We go well beyond the 'We’ll help you write your application' pitch you may hear from others," says CEO Antony Van Couvering. "We want to be our clients' technical and business partners for the long term."
Minds + Machines works with established companies and entrepreneurs, cities and nonprofit groups.
Current clients include:
- Dot Eco LLC, the private company creating .eco in partnership with Alliance for Climate Protection, a nonprofit chaired by former Vice President Al Gore
- dotNYC LLC, the private company working with New York City to launch the new .nyc domain
Friendly Experts
The principals of Minds + Machines have launched or helped launch more than 20 top-level domains, with business models ranging from small community TLDs to large commercial enterprises.
Team members have also:
- Owned and operated ICANN-accredited registrars
- Managed reseller channels
- Developed domain name systems software
- Overseen global DNS rollouts
Antony Van Couvering, CEO
Antony Van Couvering has worked with domain names and Internet infrastructure since 1996, and has played a substantial role in Internet governance issues. He has helped to shape Internet user experience, founding and running several companies:
- NetNames USA, the first firm to handle domain name needs of larger companies. Sold to Group NBT (AIM: NBT) in 1999.
- NameEngine, where Antony pioneered the corporate domain name services model still used today. Sold to VeriSign Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) in 2001. Antony worked at VeriSign in strategy, marketing and software design through 2004.
- Names@Work, a consulting firm specializing in domain names and Internet-based financial services and literary publishing.
Antony helped found Minds + Machines as a low-cost, full-service alternative to existing domain registration services. He lives in New York City.
Jothan Frakes, COO
Jothan Frakes has been managing and operating domain names and websites since 1993. He helped found eNIC, the registry operator for the country-code top-level domain .cc, and was eNIC's chief technical officer.
Jothan's roles at top domain companies include:
- Senior engineering manager at VeriSign in charge of .tv and .cc
- Vice president of business development at Name Intelligence, overseeing business development for registrar and hosting relationships
- Senior director of business development at Oversee.net
Jothan created and produced the Domain Roundtable and DomainFest Global conferences. He has run live domain name auctions, and managed registry and registrar relations for more than 118 ICANN-accredited registrars.
For the past 10 years, Jothan has appeared at conferences worldwide, moderating discussions and speaking about:
- Domain name business models and Intellectual property
- The registrar channel
- New top level domain names and internationalized domain names
- Registry operation
Jothan lives in Seattle.
Elaine Pruis, VP of Client Services
Elaine has worked in the domain industry since 2001, when she began supporting the .cx registry. She is a veteran of TLD launches, sunrises, migrations and day-to-day registry operations.
Over the past seven years, Elaine has worked with three iterations of CoCCA’s registry systems, supporting 150 registrars and 20 country-code TLDs using the CoCCA system. She has grown the CoCCA membership list to more 25 ccTLD members.
Elaine is a seasoned guest speaker at domain industry conferences. She has presented the CoCCA tool and model at ICANN and regional TLD meetings to TLD operators considering registry system options. Elaine specializes in teaching new users to navigate the registry system and supporting them as necessary. She lives and works from Ellensburg, WA.
Languages
Website: English
Spoken: English, Français, Español, Deutsch
Address
Minds and Machines LLC
- 3100 Donald Douglas Loop North, Hangar 7
- Santa Monica, California 90405
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