Before the advent of Instagram and Twitter, Jason was helping Fortune 100 brands like NFL Properties and Pfizer protect their trademarks and police their online presence. For nearly 2 decades, he has worked in the domain name space as counsel and advisor to some of the largest domain name portfolio owners in the world. He also co-founded a digital marketing conference to help educate creators, startups and others regarding new TLD and other branding opportunities.
Since 2011, Jason has been involved with ICANN policy, launched 2 Registry Operators, and most recently was one of group of global experts that made recommendations to reform and improve the UDRP through a White Paper published by WIPO. He has successfully handled over 200 Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (“UDRP”) disputes and routinely manages six figure and seven figure Domain sales transactions, escrow, and leases. Mr. Schaeffer has counseled parties and handled sales to Facebook/Meta, Google, Microsoft and other global brands and he’s also helped many famous artists and musicians secure and acquire their names. Additionally, in 2021 Jason assisted the parties with the eight-figure sale of a super-premium single word .COM domain name.