Bio

President and Founder of ICANN-accredited Registrars EnCirca, Inc and Name Share, Inc. Current Chair of the Blockchain Subcommittee for the International Trademark Association and Chair of the ICANN NomCom Review. EnCirca specializes in community-based TLDs and assists domain name registries with their go-to market strategies. EnCirca is leading Registrar for: .BANK, .CPA, .BOT, .REALTOR, .PHARMACY, .COOP, .JOBS and .TRAVEL. EnCirca powered the validation portal for seven new gTLDs, including .BANK and .INSURANCE and is a white-labeled registrar for dotBrand TLDs. EnCirca also supports Blockchain-based DNS and TLDs, including Ethereum's ENS, .ETH and the TLD's enabled by the Handshake Protocol Mr. Barrett was previously Vice President at Thomson CompuMark (part of ThomsonReuters), where he led the development of the SAEGIS trademark research platform. Mr. Barrett has engineering degrees from MIT and WPI. Recent Presentations/Articles/Podcasts: - The blockchain brief: What payments industry professionals should understand about Web3 domains. The PayPers · May 19, 2022 - ''Decentralized Domain Names: What Are They and How do They Work''. Middle East DNS Forum. May 16 2022. https://mednsf.org/session-details/panel-decentralized-domain-names-what-are-they-and-how-they-work - ...providing services for Web 3.0 and the decentralized web. Enterprise Podcast Network · May 13, 2022 - ...Working to Tame the Wild West of the Metaverse. Grit Daily · May 5, 2022 - How To Establish And Protect Your Brand In The Move To Web 3.0 And The Metaverse. Forbes · May 4, 2022 - Decentralized Domain Names - McCarthy Institute's IPCon March 17, 2022 http://events.asucollegeoflaw.com/ipcon/wp-content/uploads/sites/30/2022/03/Decentralized-Domain-Names-.pdf - ''Decentralized Web''. Presentation March 10 at ICANN73 for Brand Registry Group - ''Blockchain, NFT’s and Decentralized Domains. The impact on consumers, internet security and stability and ICANN''. With Jeffrey Neuman. March 8, 2022 at ICANN73 for NARALO. Video: https://lnkd.in/g8w3CZ4w - ''When Namespaces Collide...'', at Namescon/Handycon track: September, 2021 - Blockchain Panel at Namescon, September 21 - Middle East DNS Forum. ''The Domain Name Business'', April, 2021 - HandyCon (http://handycon.promote.hns.to/), March, 2021 - Blockchain Panel at INTA Annual Meeting, November, 2020 - ROW#9, ''Biggest Obstacle for New gTLD Innovation'', June, 2020 - NamesCon, ''Blockchain: Threat or Opportunity for Domaining?'', January, 2020 - ICANN64, TechOps Day (Kobe, Japan) ''Blockchain, IoT and the DNS'', March, 2019