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Mr. Buck is also the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of [[Domain Invest]] SA,<ref>[http://www.domaininvest.lu/management-team/ Management Team - DomainInvest.lu]</ref> which he founded in 2008. They own over 100,000 premium domains that bring in advertisement revenue, and the company has quickly become a leader in domain investment. It has received a number of high-profile financing rounds from investment firms.<ref>[http://www.thedomains.com/2010/06/05/domainer-xavier-bucks-company-di-s-a-gets-another-6-million-euro-in-investment-capital/]</ref> | Mr. Buck is also the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of [[Domain Invest]] SA,<ref>[http://www.domaininvest.lu/management-team/ Management Team - DomainInvest.lu]</ref> which he founded in 2008. They own over 100,000 premium domains that bring in advertisement revenue, and the company has quickly become a leader in domain investment. It has received a number of high-profile financing rounds from investment firms.<ref>[http://www.thedomains.com/2010/06/05/domainer-xavier-bucks-company-di-s-a-gets-another-6-million-euro-in-investment-capital/]</ref> | ||
==Career History== | ==Career History== | ||
Mr. Buck has been involved in | Mr. Buck has been involved in entreprenurial Internet projects since 1993.<ref>[http://www.domaininformer.com/interviews/interview/0808InterviewWithXavierBuck.html DomainInformer.com]</ref> He founded [[Datacenter Luxembourg]] in 2000, and [[EuroDNS]] in 2002. Both projects have become leading hosting and registration companies in Europe, and the group to which they both belong, [[Datacenter Group|DCL Group]], celebrated its 10 year anniversary in 2010.<ref>[http://www.dclgroup.eu/press-release/dcl-group-celebrates-10-year-company-anniversary.html DCLGroup.eu]</ref> [[EuroDNS]] was one of the first [[registrar]]s to offer [[Proxy Registrations|proxy registrations]] for [[.fr]], and has since lobbied for the opening of other regional [[ccTLD]]s.<ref>[http://www.domainnews.com/en/xavier-buck.html DomainNews.com]</ref> | ||
Xavier Buck and his DCL Group took over ccTLDS.com from [[Rick Latona]] in 2011; the site is a forum and selling point for country code extensions.<ref>[http://burningdomain.com/archives/category/xavier-buck BurningDomain.com]</ref> | Xavier Buck and his DCL Group took over ccTLDS.com from [[Rick Latona]] in 2011; the site is a forum and selling point for country code extensions.<ref>[http://burningdomain.com/archives/category/xavier-buck BurningDomain.com]</ref> | ||