Current and former business positions and roles
- Since 2026
- Co-Founder, MarkMesh Ltd (New Zealand Limited Company)
- Since 2026
- Editor, Domain Brief (Independent Trade Publication)
- Since 2021
- Executive Advisor (Independent Advisory Practice)
- 2022 – 2025
- CEO / Executive Board Member, neubau kompass AG (German Stock Corporation)
- 2022 – 2025
- Chair of the Board / NED, Public Technical Identifiers / IANA (US Non-Profit Corporation)
- 2020 – 2021
- CEO / Managing Director, united-domains Reselling GmbH (German Limited Liability Company)
- 2008 – 2021
- CTO / Executive Board Member, united-domains AG (German Stock Corporation)
Current and former committee positions and roles
- Since 2026
- Member, IEEE
- Since 2025
- Member, IETF RPP Working Group
- Since 2022
- Founder, DNS Science
- Since 2021
- Member, Internet Society (ISOC)
- Since 2021
- Member, EURALO Individuals' Association
- Since 2017
- Member, IETF REGEXT Working Group
- 2021 – 2024
- Founder & Author, CyberSec
- 2020 – 2021
- Delegate, ICANN Nominating Committee
- 2017 – 2021
- Founder & Editor-in-chief, MyNext.Events
- 2016 – 2021
- Founder & Author, Domain Name Basics
- 2017 – 2021
- Member, eco Names & Numbers Steering Committee
- 2012 – 2021
- Voting Member, ICANN Registrar Stakeholder Group (RrSG)
- 2017 – 2020
- Founder & Co-Chair, ICANN Contracted Party House (CPH) TechOps Group
- 2016 – 2020
- Vice-Chair / CTO, ICANN Registrar Stakeholder Group (RrSG)
- 2018 – 2019
- Ambassador, Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG)
- 2016 – 2019
- Founder & Organizer, Domain-Stammtisch Munich
- 2014 – 2019
- Member, ICANN Thick Whois Consensus Policy Implementation Review Team (IRT)
- 2016 – 2019
- Board Member, NamesCon and CloudFest Content Advisory Board
- 2013 – 2018
- Member, ICANN WHOIS Accuracy Across Field Validation Working Group
- 2016
- Member, CENTR Registrar Task Force
- 2014 – 2016
- Member, Mozilla Public Suffix List
- 2013 – 2016
- Member, ICANN Privacy & Proxy Services Accreditation Issues PDP
- 2014 – 2015
- Member, ICANN New gTLD Subsequent Rounds Discussion Group
Education
- 2022
- Master of Science, University of Applied Sciences Burgenland
Certificates
- 2026
- INSEAD, Transforming Your Business with AI
- 2025
- INSEAD, Strategy in the Age of AI and Digital Disruption
- 2023
- INSEAD, Leading Organisations in Disruptive Times
- 2022
- INSEAD, Design Thinking and Creativity for Business
- 2021
- INSEAD, Business Strategy and Financial Performance
- 2021
- Rochester Institute of Technology, MicroMasters Cybersecurity
- 2019
- Zurich International Business School, General Management
- 2019
- Zurich International Business School, Strategic Management & Business Development
- 2019
- Zurich International Business School, Advanced Leadership & Change Management
- 2019
- Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Excellence Program for Managing Directors
- 2018
- Zurich International Business School, Mergers & Acquisitions
Publications
Manuscripts under review
The Uniform Rapid Suspension System: Operational Performance and Structural Access Patterns
Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Law | Under consideration
Same Data, New Syntax: Data-Regime Continuity and the Persistence of Privacy Risks from WHOIS to RDAP
SCRIPTed | Under consideration
Measuring TLD Specialization in the DNS Namespace: A Cohort-Level Analysis of .ai Adoption Among Y Combinator Startups
Computer Networks | Under consideration
A Data-Driven Analysis of DNSSEC Self-Deployment among ICANN Accredited Registrars
International Journal of Information Management Data Insights
Journal articles
A Data-Driven Analysis of Structural Asymmetries in the gTLD Registrar Market
IEEE Access, 2026
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3709387
WHOIS Data Redaction and its Impact on Unsolicited Emails: A Field Experiment
IEEE Access, 2024
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3511269
Books
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers im internationalen Rechtssystem
Springer Gabler, 2024
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-43992-7
BestMasters series
Standards
RFC 9167 Registry Maintenance Notifications for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)
RFC Editor, 2021
DOI: 10.17487/RFC9167
Academic theses
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers im internationalen Rechtssystem – wie diese die Europäische Datenschutz-Grundverordnung umsetzt und welchen Einfluss die Umsetzung auf das E-Mail-Marketing hat.
Master’s thesis, University of Applied Sciences Burgenland, 2022
OCLC: 1379359254
Conference presentations
EPP Extension: Registry Maintenance
Registration Operations Workshop (ROW #9), 2020
Technical work forming the basis for RFC 9167