Frank T. Schilling (born July 29, 1969) is a Canadian and
Paper-Caymanian Internet-investor.
Personal life
Born in Germany, Schilling grew up in Canada and moved to the Cayman Islands 2003 (at the age of 34).
Career
Schilling founded his company Name Administration Inc. in February 2002. The company manages more than 5,000,000 domain names.
In 2003, Schilling financed the Caribbean's first
ICANN
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN ) is an American multistakeholder group and nonprofit organization responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespaces ...
accredited domain name registrar. He joined as a member of the ICANN business constituency and co-founded the non-profit Internet Commerce Association in 2006.
In 2012, Schilling was revealed by
CNET
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as the financial backer of
Uniregistry.
In 2019 Uniregistry became a top 10 registrar of domain names across GTLD's and CCTLD's and operates or provides back-end services to 31 top level domain names.
On February 11th 2020
Godaddy
GoDaddy Inc. is an American publicly traded Internet domain registrar and web hosting company headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, and incorporated in Delaware.
, GoDaddy has more than 21 million customers and over 6,600 employees worldwide. The co ...
announced that it had acquired the assets of Schilling's Name Administration Inc., as well as the Uniregistry registrar, its secondary marketplace and Uniregistry investments in New York based Brandsight.com. Uniregistry's 31 owned and operated and joint venture top-level-domain names and its registry infrastructure were excluded from the transaction.
On September 30th 2021,
Tucows
Tucows Inc. is an American-Canadian publicly traded Internet services and telecommunications company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and incorporated in Pennsylvania, United States. The company is composed of three independent business ...
announced it had acquired the registry infrastructure from Schilling's UNR for an undisclosed amount.
Schilling maintains an interest in Internet naming and is an active
angel investor
An angel investor (also known as a business angel, informal investor, angel funder, private investor, or seed investor) is an individual who provides capital for a business or businesses start-up, usually in exchange for convertible debt or owners ...
whose fund has early investments in
Triller
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and was co-founder of fashion and lifestyle brand LXL through which Schilling develops real estate, dining venues and resort condominiums, also under the LXL banner.
On June 23 2021, it was announced that Schilling was the developer behind a plan to build the first man-made safe
harbor
A harbor (American English), harbour (British English; see spelling differences), or haven is a sheltered body of water where ships, boats, and barges can be docked. The term ''harbor'' is often used interchangeably with ''port'', which is a ...
in the Cayman Islands on the island of Cayman Brac.
Personal life
He has three children.
External links
CNET: Here comes the greatest Internet landgrab in history
References
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1969 births
Living people
20th-century Canadian businesspeople
21st-century Canadian businesspeople
Canadian bloggers
Canadian chief executives
Canadian computer businesspeople