Snell & Wilmer Partner Damon Ashcraft Re-Elected to Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers Leadership Position

PHOENIX – Snell & Wilmer is pleased to announce that Partner Damon Ashcraft was re-elected to the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN) Generic Names Supporting Organization’s (GNSO) council, to represent the Intellectual Property Constituency. Ashcraft was first elected in 2023 to serve as one of its two Councilors and will serve an additional two-year term. Established in 1998, ICANN is a nonprofit public benefit corporation dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It helps promote competition and develop policy on the Internet’s unique address identifiers. Comprised of 21 members, GNSO is a policy making body within ICANN that helps create and implement policy for generic top-level domains.

Ashcraft is active in ICANN’s Intellectual Property Constituency and served on its leadership team. He also previously served as Chair, Chair-Elect and Associate-Chair of ICANN’s Nominating Committee (NomCom) in 2018 and 2019. In addition to the Intellectual Property Constituency, Ashcraft is actively involved in the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the International Trademark Association, and was recently elected to the State Bar of Arizona Board of Governors.

In his legal practice, Ashcraft concentrates in the field of intellectual property, and has experience with intellectual property audits, preparing patent and trademark applications, preparing intellectual property and software license agreements, and handling various intellectual property litigation matters. Ashcraft’s practice is also heavily related to Internet domain names and trademarks, dealing with domestic and foreign trademark registration. He enforces and defends clients’ trademark rights before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, and in various federal and state courts. He has represented trademark owners in hundreds of domain names and currently manages numerous trademark portfolios.