Raymond "Ray" King (born 1964) is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of multiple companies including
AboutUs.org and
Top Level Design. He began his career by creating The Computer Workshop with a group of friends which offered computing classes at
Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan. This venture earned him $60,000, enough to cover tuition at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for one year. King studied computer science there until he left in 1984 to start Semaphore Inc. which sold accounting and project management software, that he had begun developing in college, to architecture and engineering firms. He founded SnapNames, which specialized in "snapping up" expired
domain names, in 2000 after relocating to
Portland, Oregon. King left the company in 2005 and founded the
wiki Internet domain directory
AboutUs.org in 2006. He served as
chief executive officer until stepping down in 2013. In 2012, he and his brother-in-law founded the registry
Top Level Design, which manages the new
top-level domains .design,
.ink, and
.wiki. King and his wife have one daughter and reside in the
Portland metropolitan area.