Sergey Sharikov graduated from Kuibyshev Aviation Institute. He was the head of automated projection system and automated management system in aviation design office. He was the founder of companies in the sphere of development and implementation of software and also of the first Samara ISP.

In 2000 he became a co-founder and CEO of Regtime – one of the leading Russian ICANN domain name registrars. He is initiator and co-author of RFC 5992 (“Internationalized Domain Names Registration and Administration Guidelines for European Languages Using Cyrillic”).

Sergey Sharikov is a member of ICANN Registrar Constituency and working groups. He is also a member of Registrar Constituency and working groups in the Coordination Center for TLD RU.