José Ignacio Rasco

José Ignacio Rasco is the Chief Executive Officer and founder of dotHealth, the domain registry for the .health top-level domain, where he is responsible for the company’s vision, strategy and growth.

Previously, José Ignacio was a co-founder and the Chief Financial Officer for the .CO domain registry. As part of the .CO team, José Ignacio helped grow the registry from 30,000 to 1,000,000+ domains in less than one year. Today, .CO is a mainstream domain extension with 2,000,000+ domains registered. He and his co-founders sold .CO in 2014 to Neustar, the largest provider of core registry and digital naming services. José Ignacio also serves as Managing Director of STRAAT, the Miami-based parent company of dotHealth that also builds innovative companies like BUILDING.co and Classic.com.

Prior to José Ignacio's work in the registry and domain business, he worked in public accounting with varied industry experiences in audit and assurance services. He is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Florida and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Master’s degree in taxation from Florida International University.