Andrey Kondakov was born 17 May 1967 in Moscow. In 1990 he graduated from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, in 1995 he finished graduate course in the Institute.

Andrey Kondakov is a co-founder of Zenon N.S.P - one of the first ISPs in Russia. In 1997-2003 he was business development director in Zenon N.S.P. and was the company's representative in the Coordination Group for TLD .RU. In 2004 he founded Naunet SP - one of the accredited domain name registrars for .RU, .SU and Cyrillic .РФ top-level domains. From the establishment of Naunet and to 2008 Andrey Kondakov was a member of the Council of the Coordination Center for TLD .RU. Also he was a representative of the Council in the Board of the Coordination Center.

In November 2016 he was elected as a Chairman of a Registry Committee of the Coordination Center. Andrey Kondakov took active part in functioning of different public councils and organizations in the sphere of information and communications.