The German Internet association eco e.V. honored our Founder and CEO Dirk Krischenowski yesterday evening with a special Award. During the yearly "eco Internet Award" Gala in Cologne, Dirk has been honored for his achievements on the new gTLDs, especially for cities and regions. In the laudatory speech the eco acknowledged his significant contribution on the subject of new Top-Level domains, not only for .berlin, but for other initiatives worldwide. Due to his work the awareness among cities for their respective city Top-Level domain gained substantially as in New York, Paris, London, and Tokyo.

Background: The Internet's ICANN may add in its sole discretion new top-level domains into its central Root Server TLD database shortly. By this domain names like www.why.berlin, www.thisisacrappydomainname.berlin and www.thereisnoplacelike.berlin will become available. For this reason we are seeking adequate employees that complement the dotBERLIN team with exceptional knowledge, experience, background and attitude. For the very nearest future we are looking to fill the following positions conscientiously:

IP Supervisor (m/f)

You are able to map and trace any domain name in milliseconds with its corresponding IPv6 address by your photographic memory and intuitive allocation knowledge; even under exceptional circumstances and at shifting time zones? You track the traffic on the Internet since your time at Kindergarten? If yes, your main tasks at dotBERLIN are tracking all .berlin domain requests, the defense of the hierarchy, nomenclature and coherence of any kind of IP addresses for the security of our company. You will be also the key master of our domain safe, experience in managing domain tools is essential. The supervision of the 1,5-charcters rule and its exceptions is also part of your tasks. Previous job experience at IANA, Ripe, TCP/IP or the ftp-http consortium is appreciated, but not mandatory.

Advisor to the CEO (m/f)

Do you love the Internet and domain names especially?

Yes, then you are right with us, since you will be responsible for advising our CEO on operational excellence, strategic foresight on the future of the interplanetary internet, and the individual performance during .berlin speaker slots worldwide. This encompasses many responsibilities including scanning of the latest presentation technologies, following twitter every second (86400x7x365) on latest internet technologies, developing organisational flow charts and reporting schemes, and the overall well-being of our CEO. Previous job experience with Deutsche Telekom, BT (British Telecom) and Telekom Italia is appreciated, but not mandatory.

Salary

Salary for the jobs mentioned above is above the ICANN industry average. Extra provisions/bonuses and hand money will round up you benefits as well as relocation support, 5 dotBERLIN buttons per year and lots of technical benefits such as free WLAN, latest iGadgets and a scooter.

Job benefits and requirements

For all jobs offered you can expect an extraordinary likeable team with long term experience, endurance and passion in developing new top-level domain concepts. Your work center will be in our Wilhelminian style office in the centrally located borough of Berlin Schöneberg (translated: beautiful mountain) with in-house access to one of the oldest bars in Berlin, the Felsenkeller (translated: stone cellar); preferential access to the bar's community is included in the benefits. The Felsenkeller's long-standing community also acts as independent clearinghouse for decision making.

Extensive travel for dotBERLIN will bring you to some of the most beautiful places on earth but also to unbelievable airport nightmares. Therefore we expect for all jobs offered robust health of the applicant including accurate vaccination (e.g. rabies, yellow fever, meningitis, flu, DTP, MMR and other malicious viruses), no fear of flying and the ability to sleep at the airport for up to seven nights a year. Resilience to temperature as well as to vertical separation or integration scenarios as well as scorecard know-how is mandatory.

We would appreciate if you are interested and expect your CV sent to Katrin Ohlmer (katrin at dotberlin dot de)

About dotBERLIN

dotBERLIN, founded in 2005, is a bottom-up community-based organization which with the aim to establish and operate the .berlin top-level domain as name space and identity for all Berliners. Our focus is to develop .berlin responsible and sustainably within a multi-stakeholder framework including government, private sector and civil society. Our vision is that the new local .berlin domain names are concise and create an identity for citizens, companies and institutions. Those providing and looking for information, goods and services can thus intuitively come together. The .berlin domain names will strengthen the feeling of community amongst Berliners, improve communication and make interaction easier, thus providing a stimulus for innovation and development. Both for Berliners and for non-Berliners, the places called Berlin become more attractive as a place to visit, as a commercial location and as a place to live.

Background: The Internet’s ICANN may add in its sole discretion new top-level domains into its central Root Server TLD database shortly. By this domain names like www.why.berlin, www.1.berlin and www.thisisalongdomainname.berlin will become available.
For this reason we are seeking adequate employees that complement the dotBERLIN team with exceptional knowledge, experience, background and attitude. For the very nearest future we are looking to fill the following positions conscientiously:

Lord of IP Addresses (m/f)
You are able to map and trace any .berlin domain name in milliseconds with its corresponding IPv6 address by your photographic memory and intuitive allocation knowledge; even under exceptional circumstances and at shifting time zones?
If yes, your main task at dotBERLIN is the defense of the hierarchy, nomenclature and coherence of any kind of IP addresses for the security of our company. The supervision of the 3-charcters rule and its exceptions is also part of your tasks.
Previous job experience at IANA, Ripe, TCP/IP or http.net is appreciated, but not mandatory.

Name Space Evangelist (m/f)
Has Internet blood been flowing in your veins since birth and you’ve worked IT wonders from the very first keystroke? Then you are the person to become our company’s visionary leader for the infinite name space of .berlin and beyond.
One of your tasks is to spread the vision of .berlin in the user’s community, with machines, in the over 400 megacities worldwide and at the outer rim of the Internet’s universe. In your ten-year mission you will explore strange new domain names, seek out new variants and new characters and go boldly where no man has gone before.
Previous job experience at ICANN, Google, MCI or NASA is appreciated, but not mandatory.

Best Boy/Girl
Do you love the Internet and domain names especially?
Yes, then you are right with us, since you will be responsible for the daily running of .berlin flow and the .berlin headquarter integrity. This encompasses many responsibilities including preparations for hiring and scheduling of .berlin staff, the ordering and returning of lend .berlin domain names, workplace safety, expendables, loading staffs suitcases for travel, location search and planning for the “German Evening at ICANN” events, developing new applications using acronyms like PDDIP, URSS, SNTP, HTTD, and serving as the main daily representative of the company at local sushi deliveries.  

Salary
Salary for the jobs mentioned above is above the ICANN industry average. Extra provisions/bonuses and hand money will round up you benefits as well as relocation support, 10 dotBERLIN shirts per year and lots of technical benefits such as free WLAN/3-4G, latest iGadgets and a scooter.

Job benefits and requirements
For all jobs offered you can expect an extraordinary likeable team with long term experience, endurance and passion in developing new top-level domain concepts. Your work center will be in our Wilhelminian style office in the centrally located borough of Berlin Schöneberg (translated: beautiful mountain) with in-house access to one of the oldest bars in Berlin, the Felsenkeller (translated: stone cellar); preferential access to the bar’s community is included in the benefits. The Felsenkeller’s long-standing community also acts as independent clearinghouse for decision making.
Extensive travel for dotBERLIN will bring you to some of the most beautiful places on earth but also to unbelievable airport nightmares.
Therefore we expect for all jobs offered robust health of the applicant including accurate vaccination (e.g. rabies, yellow fever, meningitis, flu, DTP, MMR and other malicious viruses), no fear of flying and the ability to sleep at the airport for four to seven nights a year. Resilience to temperature as well as to vertical separation or integration scenarios is mandatory.
We would appreciate if you are interested and expect your CV sent to Katrin Ohlmer (katrin at dotberlin dot de)

About dotBERLIN
dotBERLIN, founded in 2005, is a bottom-up community-based organization which with the aim to establish and operate the .berlin top-level domain as name space and identity for all Berliners. Our focus is to develop .berlin responsible and sustainably within a multi-stakeholder framework including government, private sector and civil society.
Our vision is that the new local .berlin domain names are concise and create an identity for citizens, companies and institutions. Those providing and looking for information, goods and services can thus intuitively come together. The .berlin domain names will strengthen the feeling of community amongst Berliners, improve communication and make interaction easier, thus providing a stimulus for innovation and development. Both for Berliners and for non-Berliners, the places called Berlin become more attractive as a place to visit, as a commercial location and as a place to live.

At their annual member gathering, Dirk Krischenowski has been elected as vice-board of trustees for the german chapter of the Internet Society. With more than 80 chapters worldwise the organization, founded in 1992, is dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of people throughout the world.

We wish all of our readers a happy, healthy, and prosperous Year 2010 with inspiring contacts and exciting ideas. For our part, we are especially curious to see which developments this first year of the decade holds for us, and which progress we'll see at ICANN with regards to the completion of the remaining issues for the introduction of new top-level domains.

Season's Greetings and a happy new year!

At the first evening of dmexco, we will have a reception at our BERLIN.digital booth (hall 8.1, booth A 051), which will be opened by Dr. Richard Meng, speaker of the Berlin Senate. We cordially invite all our sponsors, partners, and .berlin-supporters to join us for a typical 'Berliner Currywurst' at the reception and have a chat about the .berlin-project.

Once again we have been invited by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kleinwächter to present our concept of city TLDs to the 35 students attending the 3rd European Summer School on Internet Governance. Among fundamental questions how to incorporate the respective community and the general trend of establishing city TLDs the students from around the world were especially interested in the registration policies for city TLDs.

At today's 3rd day of the 33rd public ICANN meeting in Cairo, Dirk Krischenowski, Founder and CEO of dotBERLIN, announced the founding of a coalition of applicants for city Top-Level Domains. The group which consists of the initiatives from Barcelona, Berlin, Hamburg, New York City and Paris, is going to represent the common interests of its members within ICANN and work towards the development of best practices with regard to the governance of the new name spaces. As of yet, the future status of the group in the ICANN structure has not been defined. As a first step, the group will submit comments to the Draft Applicant Guidebook for new gTLDs. In particular, the proposed schedule, the fees and the evaluation system are being critized by the cityTLDs group.

We had been invited by the Committee of the Government representatives at ICANN (the so-called Governmental Advisory Committee, GAC) to present our initiative. Followed by an overview of cityTLDs in general we presented the common grounds and differences of the most-known cityTLD initiatives .berlin, .paris, and .nyc. The representatives were especially interested in details about the legal framework for cityTLDs, the target group and the procedure how to reserve names for public authorities (like districts, administration,…).