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Statement of Interest: Registry Service Provider Program Working Group

1Date of last revision (updates automatically).
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Your name:

Hartmut Schulz

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Current employer(s):

dotkoeln, a brand of NetCologne GmbH, Cologne/ Germany

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Current position(s):

Senior Product Manager, Head of registry for the TLDs .koeln and .cologne

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Stakeholder group, constituency and/or advisory committee:

none

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Your primary country of residence:

Germany

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Your primary time zone /- UTC. Exclude any seasonal adjustments. (e.g., Los Angeles is UTC-8):

Find your time zone at https://www.timeanddate.com/time/map.
UTC +1

 

 

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List any financial relationship beyond de minimus stock ownership you may have with any company that to your knowledge has a financial relationship or contract with ICANN:

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Do you believe you are participating in this process as a representative of any individual or entity, whether paid or unpaid?

If the answer is “Yes,” please provide the name of the individual or entity you represent. (If professional ethical obligations prevent you from disclosing this information, please enter "Private").

dotkoeln | NetCologne GmbH, Cologne/ Germany

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Are you, or a company you work for:

  • A registry service provider for a gTLD?
  • Providing advice to any gTLD registry, new gTLD applicant or Registry Service Provider?
  • Otherwise involved in the operation of any of the five critical functions (DNS, DNSSEC, EPP, RDDS, data escrow) of a gTLD?

If you answered yes, please explain.

Yes, NetCologne GmbH (using the brand name dotkoeln for this business segment) is the registry for the geographic TLDs .koeln and .cologne

 


 

 

 

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What role are you interested in taking on in the RSP Program Working Group?

Active participants can expect to join a call (60-90 minutes) on a weekly basis, discuss topics on a mailing list, and review documents, potentially up to two hours per week.

Observers will keep abreast of the conversation by following the mailing list. There are no expectations regarding time or attendance. 

Observer

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Briefly describe the reason for your interest in joining this group and include any expertise you would bring to discussions regarding registry service providers in the ICANN ecosystem. 

Working for NetCologne GmbH, I’m the head of the registry department which maintains the two geographic top-level-domains .koeln and .cologne. I have been responsible for the applications of those TLDs, both on the technical (in coordination with our backend provider) side and on the marketing/ financial side. Since our TLDs made it to the market in 2014, I have been a member of the (so far unofficial) geoTLD Working Group.

Therefore, I am still very much aware of the problems this group will have to deal with when working on the framework for ICANN's Registry Service Provider Program.

As I have never been working in an ICANN working Group so far and would like to gain some experience, I would be very happy if you would allow me to join this Working Group as an observer.

 

 

 

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