Country: Germany
Email: eric [at] schaetzlein.de
Website:

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Eric Schaetzlein (Eric Schätzlein) is an Independant IT Consultant and a Member of the Supervisory Board, Gameforge AG.[1] He is the former co-founder and Senior Advisor to the Board at Schlund+Partner.

Eric Schaetzlein has double nationality, German and French, but was born and currently lives in Germany. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

Career History[edit | edit source]

In 1995, Eric co-founded Schlund+Partner. He joined the management board of Schlund+Partner in 2001 as Chief Technical Officer and was responsible for Schlund+Partner’s domain services department. He designed and implemented Schlund+Partner's domain registration and DNS system, which has currently registered over 1 million domain names; Eric also co-designed Schlund+Partner's .com/.net/.org Registrar system, providing expertise with the NSI-RRP.

DENIC[edit | edit source]

In 1994, Eric worked at the German Registry, DENIC, responsible for the task of automating the registration process; there he developped a system which has now, in its current version, registered more than 8 million .de domain names.

In 2001, Eric Schätzlein joined the supervisory board of DENIC.

Other ccTLD and Professional Organizations[edit | edit source]

He has been working with European and international ccTLD registries like Nominet UK, DENIC, SWITCH and nic.at for many years. [2]

Eric Schaetzlein has been a Member of the Board of Afilias Ltd., the registry managing .info and .org domains. Eric is a private member of ISOC and has attended numerous workshops on political, legal and technical domain name issues, like the ICANN Studienkreis, ECLIP, as well as RIPE Meetings.

Career History[edit | edit source]

  • Supervisory Board, Gameforge AG, (Chairman since 2007), 2006 - Present.
  • Independant IT Consultant, 2006 - Present.
  • Senior Advisor to the Board, Schlund+Partner AG / 1&1 Internet AG, 2005 - 2006.
  • CTO, Schlund+Partner AG, 2001 - 2005.
  • Supervisory Board, DENIC eG, 2003 - Present.
  • Advisory Council, nic.at, 2001 - 2005.
  • Member of the Board and Executive Committee Member, Afilias Ltd., 2001 - 2007.
  • Consultant, Gerkhard Software, 1992 - 1994.

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