About nic.at
Structure
- Structure of the Internet Foundation Austria (IPA)
Management Board
The Management Board of the Internet Foundation Austria (IPA) manages the foundation's daily business according to the purpose of the foundation, which is to promote the internet in Austria - especially to take over the domain administration for the .at-zone. The foundation is the owner of nic.at GmbH, which means that the Management Board also takes the role of the owners’ representative.
Members of the Management Board:
Wolfgang Kleinert, Rupert Nagler, Manfred Wagner
Supervisory Board
The Supervisory Board of the Internet Foundation Austria (IPA) is in charge of overseeing the activities of the Management Board and appoints members to the Domain Council in coordination with the Management Board. Two members are nominated by the ISPA, one by Vienna University.
Persons:
- Mr. Dr. Andreas Koman, Tele2
- Mr. Thomas Schartner, B.Sc., LinzNet
- Mr. DI. Ulf Busch, ZID Uni Wien
Domain Name Council
The Domain Name Council 
decides on fundamental naming policy issues and the relationship between the domain holders and the registry. Specifically, the council decides on delegation directives and principles regarding the arbitration office for .at-domains. This arbitration office acts as a conciliation boy in order to resolve legal disputes between registrants and third parties.
Members of the Domain Name Council:
- Eric Schätzlein, consultant, international expert
- Bernd Hilmar, Emerion Webhosting GmbH, registrar
- Ernst Langmantel, formerly RTR GmbH
- Christian Mock, Association of Austrian Internet Users, vibe.at
- Kurt Reichinger, Rundfunk- und Telekom-Regulierungs GmbH, telecommunications regulator
- Franz Schmidbauer, Austrian Associatoin of Judges
- Ronald Schwärzler, Media
- Christian Singer, Austrian Ministry of Transport
- Constantin Tönz, Switch, international expert
Sponsorship council
Via a special sponsorship council, experts from various fields are deciding, which projects are sponsored by the Internet Foundation Austria (IPA) - transparently and objectively. The five members of the sponsorship council are familiar with the internet from its beginning, All members are participating honoraryly and independently from their main occupation. Sponsorships are allocated e.g. via the platform www.netidee.at .
Members of the sponsorship council:
- Dr. Stefan Köhler (Chairman of the sponsorship council and communications expert)
Primary occupation with Wien Energie, previously with Silver Server GmbH and RTR-GmbH - Sabine Fleischmann (Vice-chairwoman, Top-Manager)
Primary occupation as freelance management consultant, previously general manager of Sun Microsystems and Microsoft - Dr. Wolfgang Schwabl (IT- and communications expert)
Primary occupation as Group Director Information Security & Emergency with Telekom Austria AG - Mag. Ritchie Pettauer (freelance online-marketing-expert and blogger)
advises companies and organisations on internet-strategies and reports on social media marketing, digital gadgets, music and web 2.0 at http://blog.datenschmutz.net/ - Richard Stastny (Pioneering Internet- and telecommunications-expert)
Retiree, formerly occupied with ÖFEG, the development- and sponsorship-body of Telekom Austria
nic.at
nic.at Internet Verwaltungs- und Betriebs GmbH is the contractual partner of the domain holders and handles customer service, data maintenance, registrar support, legal support, as well as invoicing and accounting.
Managers:
Richard Wein, Robert Schischka
Vienna University Computer Center (ZID)
The Vienna University Computer Center (ZID) maintains the registry database and nameservers. The ZID provides these services on the basis of a contract with nic.at GmbH.
Technical director of the registry service:
Gerhard Winkler.