United Domains: Difference between revisions

| logo            = UnitedDomains.png

| type            = Public

| industry        = Domain Registrar

| founded        = 2000

| founders        = [[Florian Huber]]<br>[[Markus Eggensperger]]<br>[[Alexander Helm]]

| headquarters    = Starnberg

| products        = [[newdomains.org]] Conference

| employees      = 70

| website        = [http://www.united-domains.de united-domains.de]<br>[http://www.uniteddomains.com uniteddomains.com]

| facebook        =  

| linkedin        =  

| twitter        = UnitedDomainsUS

| keypeople      = [[Florian Huber]], CEO<br>

[[Markus Eggensperger]], Legal Council<br>

'''United Domains''' is an [[ICANN]] accredited domain name registrar. United Domains has over ten years of expertise in domain name registration, offering over 170 top-level domains worldwide. United Domains support over 1.4 million domain names for more than 250,000 clients, including Fortune Global 500 companies such as Vodafone, Lufthansa, and Siemens.<ref>[https://www.uniteddomains.com/service/aboutus uniteddomains.com]</ref>

United Domains is a silver sponsor at [[ICANN Silicon Valley]]<ref>[http://twitter.com/florianhuber twitter.com/florianhuber]</ref> and [[ICANN Singapore]].<ref>[[http://singapore41.icann.org Singapore 41 Meeting]</ref>

United Domains has also sponsored the [[.nxt]] conference on new [[gTLD]]s.<ref>[http://www.dot-nxt.com/sponsor/united-domains dot-nxt.com]</ref> It also hosted its own conference on new TLDs in September, 2011, the [[newdomains.org]] conference. [[Afilias]] was the top sponsor of the event, which was held in Munich, Germany, and timed to coincide with that city's famous Oktoberfest celebrations. It seems they have intentions to hold another similar conference in 2012.<ref>[http://www.newdomains.org/?et_cid=10&et_lid=30&et_sub=frontpage Home, NewDomains.org]</ref>

United Domains was founded in August 2000 by a young team of software developers, marketing and legal experts.<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/company/united-domains-ag linkedin.com]</ref> Florian Huber, Markus Eggensperger and Alexander Helm are the founders of the company.<ref>[http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=23840987 businessweek.com]</ref>

In 2008, United Domains was purchased by [[United Internet]] for 34 million Euros. The founders of the company, Florian Huber, Markus Eggensperger and Alexander Helm still hold 15% share in the company even after the sale.<ref>[http://www.domainnamenews.com/registrars/united-internet-purchases-united-domains-for-45m-usd/3462 domainnamenews.com]</ref>

Board Members: Florian Huber (Chairman), Alexander Helm, Markus Eggensperger

Supervisory Board: Norbert Lang (Chairman), Dr. Oliver Mauss, Juergen Mayer<ref>[http://www.united-domains.de/kontakt/?SESSID=1a0014a306f225899fdcc6fc12041f2e united-domains.de]</ref>

==Business==

* namecheck.com http://www.namecheck.com/

* newdomains.org http://www.newdomains.org/

* domain-recht.de http://www.domain-recht.de/

* dopoly.de http://www.dopoly.de/

NameCheck.com was launched officially in 2011.<ref>[http://www.billhartzer.com/pages/united-domains-launches-namecheck-com-search-engine-for-online-names/ billhartzer.com]</ref>

==Services==

United Domains helps customers search and register domains. United Domains also maintains a Domain Trading Exchange which helps users trade the domains already taken. One can either buy, sell or lease through the Domain Trading Exchange.

 

Starting March 2011, United Domains has also started the pre-registration of the new [[TLD]]s such as [[.sfo]], [[.berlin]], [[.nyc]], [[.web]], [[.eco]], [[.shop]], [[.gay]], [[.med]], [[.xxx]], [[.hotel]], [[.film]], [[.music]] to be introduced by [[ICANN]] in 2012.<ref>[https://www.uniteddomains.com/ntld/pre-register-new-domains InternetNZ uniteddomains.com]</ref>

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* [http://www.uniteddomains.com USA United Domains]