To follow the lead of Bruce here my statement of interest I'm a fulltime employee of Schlund+Partner AG. Schlund+Partner AG is ICANN accredited and is conducting business with almost all major gTLDS and ccTLDs. Schlund holds a minority share in Afilias LLC for investment purposes.Besides domain name registrations Schlund is mainly offering wehosting and email services to end users. I'm a member of the DENIC Technical Advisory Council. Best, tom