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*PRESS RELEASE*

DENIC Chief Executive Officer Sabine
Dolderer to Step Down in February 2014

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Dear Sir or Madam,

DENIC CEO Sabine Dolderer announced
today that she will not extend her standing contract at DENIC eG, the managing
organization and central registry of the .DE domain, but leave DENIC‘s
Executive Board at the end of February, 2014. Ms Dolderer has accompanied
the DENIC (Deutsches Network Information Center)
project since as early as 1994 already, when all administration and DNS
services of the .DE domain were still provided at university level. Starting
1997, when the cooperative DENIC eG was founded, Ms Dolderer became general
manager for the business and the services of the .DE operator in Frankfurt
am Main, Germany, where all the registry’s services have been bundled,
since then. In 2001, Ms Dolderer was initially appointed a full-time member
of the Executive Board. Presently she holds the position of CEO. In this
role, she is responsible for all non-technical business areas.

Thereby, Ms Dolderer was significantly
involved in the design and further development of the domain administration
system for the top level domain .DE. Thanks to the stability of its infrastructure
and the relatively liberal registration conditions, in Germany, .DE under
the auspices of Ms Dolderer very early gained the leading position among
all country code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) worldwide and clearly holds
the first rank among the country-targeted TLDs still today, currently scoring
a 15.5+ million domain inventory.

During the 17 years of its existence,
the operator of .DE which is organized in the form of a cooperative and
comprises today nearly 300 member companies of the German and international
Internet industry, thus representing a broad cross-section of the diverging
interests of all Internet user groups, repeatedly took a leading role in
further developing registry services and setting technical standards: To
start with, DENIC was a pioneer when it introduced the registry/registrar
model as early as in the 1990s, long before any other of the large TLDs
considered to do so. DENIC was also the first country code registry that
started running its name server network completely independently, in 2003.
Moreover, in 2004, the Cooperative was one of the first TLDs that included
IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names) in their character set permitted
for domain names.

In 2007, DENIC expanded its own data
center operation and implemented a comprehensive redundancy concept based
on two state-of-the-art mirror data centers at two geographically spaced
locations that guarantee utmost resilience and security. The multiple-redundant
name service network of the latest generation, which is located at the
currently most important Internet hubs in the world and is permanently
upgraded according to requirements, possesses sufficient spare capacity
to ideally suit the technological challenges of the coming years. Within
the scope of DENIC's new DNS anycast slave services field of business,
third-party TLDs may book secondary DNS services since 2010 and thus benefit
from the worldwide accessibility and the high computing performance of
DENIC's name servers. At the end of May 2011, after an 18-month testbed,
DENIC introduced DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) for the
.DE zone. 

In the meantime, the business model
of self-controlled domain administration including the independent operation
of the related technical infrastructure has long proven successful in Germany.
After more than 17 years of administering and providing technical support
for .DE domains, the impartial cooperative DENIC, operating as a private-sector
not-for-profit organization, stands for competence, reliability and integrity
and enjoys much trust and respect also among German politics. In its role
of neutral service provider, DENIC has always demonstrated a clear commitment
to the basic concept of democracy and non-discrimination of the Internet,
for the benefit of the entire Internet community.

Ms Dolderer never ceased promoting the
spirit of a free and open Internet also within the realms of the international
Internet organizations such as ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers) or the IGF (Internet Governance Forum) where she has
been actively involved for many years and where thanks to her strong expertise
and extensive experience in the field of domain administration she also
held several leading posts, over the years. These included positions within
CENTR, the Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries, where
she acted as Treasurer, from 2000 to 2004, and later sat on the Board of
Directors, from 2007 to 2010. 

“On behalf of the Supervisory Board,
I would like to thank Sabine Dolderer for the many years of excellent and
trustful cooperation, for her personal commitment and the great accomplishments
she has attained for the Cooperative“, said Thomas Keller, Chairman of
the Supervisory Board of DENIC eG. “Not only has she played a vital role
in the progress of DENIC, showing broad vision and a deep understanding
of the needs of the market, and this way ever tuning it to the fast-changing
challenges of the future. She also never tired in pushing DENIC to become
the fundamental pillar of the German Internet, that has earned global recognition
and a worldwide reputation today.” 

For the time after her withdrawal, Ms
Dolderer has not yet any specific plans: “The 17-year experience at the
top of DENIC, from the founding of the Cooperative until today, from the
start-up organization to the medium-sized company employing some 120 workforce,
was an incredibly exciting and rewarding time, and looking back I feel
a particular sense of gratitude and pride. But now that the “child“ has
grown up, I am anxious to give my creative thoughts and imagination another
go, taking another direction once more.“ 

The Supervisory Board of DENIC eG will
now confer about further proceedings as a result of Ms Dolderer’s withdrawal
and will advise the next steps in due course.


Kind regards

Stefanie Welters
Public Relations Officer
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DENIC eG
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60329 Frankfurt am Main
GERMANY

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Angaben nach § 25a Absatz 1 GenG:
DENIC eG (Sitz: Frankfurt am Main)
Vorstand: Sabine Dolderer, Helga Krüger, Carsten Schiefner, Dr. Jörg Schweiger
Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Thomas Keller
Eingetragen unter Nr. 770 im Genossenschaftsregister, Amtsgericht Frankfurt
am Main

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