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.