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Alexander Schubert attends ICANN meetings on regular basis since mid 2004. In mid 2005 he co-founded the dotBERLIN Gmbh & Co.KG in Berlin which successfully applied for ".berlin" in the first new gTLD round in 2012 (see for example www.schubert.berlin). In October 2016 he founded the dotUSA Management, LLC in the United States; the management entity of the dotUSA, Inc.: A public benefit corporation that will apply for ".usa" in the round that follows the 2020/2021 new gTLD round (three letter country codes were ineligible in 2012 - and will be ineligible in 2020/2021 as well).

In October 2017 Alexander founded the dotAIRPORT, LLC in the United States and subsequently introduced the project to the ICANN community and developed the operational and business plan.

Since 2016 Alexander participates in all relevant new gTLD policy development process groups at ICANN - the team of experts that is currently creating the rules for the application window for the new gTLD round. He is member at the RySG (Registry Stakeholders Group) at the gNSO (Generic Names Support Organization, ICANN). He is also member of the "next application round working group" at gNSO and member at several of it's sub-track working groups.

Alexander is a domain industry veteran since 1997, a domain investor and acquisition specialist. He participates in domain industry events like "Namescon" in Las Vegas regularly.

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Alexander was born in Berlin in 1965, has a masters degree in aviation engineering from the Technical University of Berlin, was raised in Berlin and lives since 2007 in Riga, Latvia: A small northern European EU member state. He will relocate to the East Coast of the United States for the dotAIRPORT project.






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Howard Baggott started his career in the Airport Industry in 2005 with the Airports Council International in the Member Services department. After seven successful years in the airport industry he moved on to the Internet Society (ISOC.org) where he is the Director of Strategic Events following his former role in the Partnership Development Team for two years. Howard has recently joined the dotAIRPORT team as an external advisor. His past experience in the airport industry as well as his expertise in the Internet community & ICANN are uniquely qualifying him in organizing community outreach and sponsorship acquisition.

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  • LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/howard-baggott-3a836aa

  • email: howard.baggott@dotairport.com