| gTLD | Full Legal Name | E-mail suffix | Detail | | .gmbh | TLDDOT GmbH | dotgmbh.de | View |
* RELATIONSHIP TO COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS *
The applicant, TLDDOT GmbH, is a member of the community since it is registered as a GmbH with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Berlin (IHK zu Berlin) with the registration number HRB 124498 as mentioned in the applicant profile.
TLDDOT GmbH is also member of the largest association representing the interests of GmbH companies, the BVMW (The German Association for Small and Medium-sized Businesses). The Berlin-based BVMW is a politically independent association which caters for all commercial branches and professions, and represents the interests of small and medium- sized businesses in politics, with administrative authorities, with trade unions and
with major companies. The BVWM has around 80.000 GmbHs as members.
By this the applicant, TLDDOT GmbH, is a member that is eligible according to the GmbH Community criteria.
* RELATIONSHIP TO THE COMMUNITY PARTS *
The applicant, TLDDOT GmbH, has a relationship to all layers of the GmbH Community structure as described in #20a.
1. TLDDOT GmbH maintains a long-standing relationship to the governments in Austria, Germany and Switzerland via the members of the Governmental Advisory Committee at ICANN (Liechtenstein is represented by Switzerland), and has consulted with them on the creation of the .GmbH namespace. TLDDOT GmbH has various other contacts to governmental representatives. The government of Germany has already pre-reserved several names for its reserved names list under .GmbH.
2. TLDDOT GmbH and its managers maintain also relationships to other organizations representing GmbH companies, such as the Deutsche Industrie- und Handelskammer (www.dihk.de), Wirtschaftskammer Österreich (www.wko.at), Association of Berlin Merchants and Manufacturers e.V. (www.vbki.de), medianet Berlin-Brandenburg e.V.
(www.medianet-bb.de), Unternehmerverband Berlin-Brandenburg e.V. (www.uv-berlin.de), eco Verband der deutschen Internetwirtschaft e.V. (the association for the German Internet economy, www.eco.de), BITKOM - Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien e.V. (the German association for information technology, telecommunications and new media, www.bitkom.org).
3. TLDDOT is a GmbH itself.
* ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISMS *
1. Advisory Board
The applicants advisory board will be set up in 2012, it has a consultative and supporting position for the approval activities and for the subsequent operation of the top-level domain .GMBH. The advisory board also helps to anchor, in a socially responsible way, the top-level domain .GMBH in the GmbH Community made up of political, commercial, cultural, social and individual interests. It also advises the Registry on policies such as the issuing of domains, taking account of the various interests fairly and transparently. The heterogeneous composition of the advisory board can make use of a variety of experience, knowledge and contacts. The advisory board includes (in
alphabetic order):
- Ruediger Eisele – In-house counsel of the BVMW (German Association for Small and
Medium-sized Businesses)
- Dr. Hagen Hultzsch – Former ICANN director and former member of the management board of Deutsche Telekom AG
- Hans-Joachim Reck – Managing Director of the VKU (Association of municipal Companies in Germany)
2. Annual Reports
The Registry will publish annual reports on operations of the .GMBH top-level domain and inform the public on other relevant developments in the .GMBH name space.
3. Ombudsman
The Registry will establish an ombudsman.
4. Education
The Registry will publish educational papers, speeches and other public awareness creating measures (already ongoing).
* DISCLOSURE *
Shareholder of the applicant is the ICANN accredited Registrar PSI USA Inc⁄InterNetX GmbH.
| gTLD | Full Legal Name | E-mail suffix | Detail | | .berlin | dotBERLIN GmbH & Co. KG | dotberlin.de | View |
* RELATIONSHIP TO COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS *
dotBERLIN has worked closely with the Berlin Government and its relevant different departments as well as with the Berlin Parliament and its political parties since 2005 on the topic of .BERLIN. The Letter of Support which the Berlin Government issued (attached in #21b) is also an explicit expression of a long-standing relationship to the Berlin Government.
dotBERLIN triggered that the German Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag) in Berlin approved the first ever parliamentary resolution to support geographic and city top-level domains worldwide in 2008. This undermines the relationship to relevant stakeholders far beyond the Berlin borders.
dotBERLIN GmbH & Co. KG is an active member of the most important and relevant Berlin-specific organizations representing the majority interests of the Community of Berliners:
- IHK zu Berlin (Berlin Chamber of Trade and Commerce), www.ihk-berlin.de
- Association of Berlin Merchants and Manufacturers e.V., www.vbki.de
- medianet Berlin-Brandenburg e.V. (association of media businesses), www.medianet-bb.de
- Unternehmerverband Berlin-Brandenburg e.V. (association of businesses), www.uv-berlin.de
- Initiative Hauptstadt e.V. (the Capital City Initiative), www.initiative-hauptstadt.de
- Berliner Wirtschaftsgespräche e.V. (Berlin Economic Forum), www.bvg-ev.net
- Marketing Club Berlin, www.marketingclubberlin.de
- Association for Place Branding and Public Diplomacy www.nationbranding.de
dotBERLIN GmbH & Co. KG is also an active member of other Berlin-based organizations representing interests of the Community of Berliners:
- eco - Verband der deutschen Internetwirtschaft e.V. (the association for the German Internet economy), www.eco.de
- BITKOM - Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien e.V. (the German association for information technology, telecommunications and new media), www.bitkom.org
dotBERLIN GmbH & Co. KG is a Berlin-based company and its entire team is comprised of persons who were born in Berlin or have lived in Berlin for at least a decade. This reflects a deep and intense relationship to the Community as well.
* RELATIONSHIP TO THE COMMUNITY PARTS *
Employees are native Berliners or have been residents in Berlin for at least a decade. The applicant’s organization, dotBERLIN GmbH & Co. KG, was founded 2005 in Berlin and is located in BERLIN.
dotBERLIN GmbH & Co. KG consists of 86 shareholders (partners) of which over 80% are located in Berlin. The shareholders represent a multi-stakeholder composition, including associations, companies, ICANN accredited registrars, and individuals. Most of the more than 25 dotBERLIN GmbH & Co. KG sponsors are leading companies from Berlin.
All shareholders and sponsors are obviously endorsers of the .berlin top-level domain by dotBERLIN.
Please review the attachements in #20f for more details.
* ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISMS *
1. Advisory Board
dotBERLIN’s advisory board, established in 2006, has a consultative and supporting position for the approval activities and for the subsequent operation of the top-level domain .BERLIN. The advisory board also helps to anchor, in a socially responsible way, the top-level domain .BERLIN in the Berlin community made up of political, business, cultural, social and individual interests. It also advises dotBERLIN on the allocation of domains, taking account of the various interests fairly and transparently. The heterogeneous composition of the advisory board can make use of a variety of experience, knowledge and contacts. The advisory board includes (in alphabethic order):
- Dr. Markus Bahmann - Maiwald Lawyers, Berlin⁄Munich; Chair ʺRegistration Practice and DNS Administration Subcommittee of the Internet Committeeʺ of the International Trademark Association INTA, Chairman of the Advisory Board of dotBERLIN
- Dr. Andreas Broeckmann - Art Curator, Berlin
- Peter Dittler - Chairman Internet Society German Chapter e.V. (ISOC), Grasbrunn; CEO BRAINTEC Netzwerk-Consulting GmbH, Karlsruhe; Advisory Board member of PIR (.org)
- Richard Wein - CEO nic.at (.at TLD, .BERLIN’s registry backend service provider), Vienna
- Susanne Engel - Managing Director BFB Best4MediaBerlin GmbH (Yellow Pages), Berlin
- Prof. Dr. Martin Grothe - Lecturer at the Institute of Electronic Business (IEB) at the University of Arts (UdK), Berlin; Managing Director Complexium GmbH, Berlin
- Dr. Jeanette Hofmann - Internet⁄ICANN expert at Science Center Berlin for Social Research - WZB, Berlin; Founding Director of the Alexander Humboldt Research institute for Internet & society”; Member of the Advisory Group of the Internet Governance Forums (IGF) of the United Nations, Member of Enquete Commission Internet of the German Bundestag
- Annette Mühlberg - Head of E-Government at ver.di (trade union) Headquarter, Berlin; until March 2007 Chair of the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) at ICANN; Member of Enquete Commission Internet of the German Bundestag
- Constantin Rehlinger - CEO Berlin-Brandenburg Craftsmen Guild Association, Spokesman Berlin Guild Association
- Prof. Michael Rotert - Chairmann of the Board of eco - German Internet Business Association e.V., Cologne; Honorary Spokesman EuroISPA (European Internet Service Provider Association), Brussels
- Uwe Stache - Managing Director of the Berlin-based registrar BB-ONE.net Ltd., Berlin
- Burkhard Kieker - Director of the City’s Berlin Tourismus & Kongress GmbH, Berlin
- Christian Mueller - CTO⁄CIO of the Berlin-based registrar Strato Rechenzentrum AG (affiliate of STRATO AG, ICANN accredited registrar), Berlin
dotBERLIN also maintains regular contacts to the German .de ccTLD manager DENIC e.G.
2. Annual Reports
dotBERLIN is obliged by the Government of the City of Berlin to publish monthly reports on the application and operations of the .BERLIN top-level domain and to inform the public annually on other relevant developments in the .BERLIN name space.
3. Steering Committee
dotBERLIN and the Government of the City of Berlin have established a four person steering
committee that has oversight of the management of the .BERLIN top-level domain. Its tasks include the adoption of new developments, the management of reserved names lists, the discussion of policies and many other topics.
* DISCLOSURE *
Some of the shareholders (partners) of dotBERLIN GmbH & Co. KG are ICANN accredited Registrars, namely but not concluding
- united domains AG
- PSI USA Inc⁄InterNetX GmbH
- Key-Systems GmbH
- Cronon AG⁄Strato AG
- InterNetWire Communications GmbH
- Variomedia AG
- http.net Internet GmbH
All ICANN accredited Registrars that are shareholder of dotBERLIN GmbH & Co. KG have an individual share of less than one (1) percent of the total share capital.