Xavier Buck
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| Country: | Luxembourg |
| LinkedIn: |  [xavierbuck Xavier Buck]
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Xavier Buck is the Founder, Executive Director, and CEO of the DCL Group. The group is the umbrella organization of EuroDNS, voipGATE, and the Datacenter Luxembourg; he acts as the Director of all those organizations. He also founded AsiaDNS.[1] Xavier Buck is also the Director of DomainTools, and the Chairman of eBrandServices.[2][3]
Mr. Buck is also the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Domain Invest SA,[4] 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.[5]
Career History
Mr. Buck has been involved in entrepenurial Internet projects since 1993.[6] 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, DCL Group, celebrated its 10 year anniversary in 2010.[7] EuroDNS was one of the first registrars to offer proxy registrations for .fr, and has since lobbied for the opening of other regional ccTLDs.[8]
Awards & Recognition
In 2008, Xavier Buck was awarded the "Creative Young Entrepreneur Luxembourg" by the Junior Chamber of Commerce of Luxembourg. [9] He beat out two other entrepeneurs for the recognition and award money, and credited his team and the business environment in Luxembourg when accepting the prize. Winning the honor meant that he would represent his country in an international competition of young entrepreneurs.[10]
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Background
Mr. Buck was enthralled by computing and gaming at a young age; at 14 he created a computing club in his school, which eventually went on to attract some 1,500 members across Luxembourg. Xavier studied both Computer Science and Economics, before leaving academia to start his first software company.[11]
Xavier Buck was born and grew up in Luxembourg. He is fluent in English, German and French. Xavier regularly participates in numerous industry forums and advisory groups.[12] He currently resides in Luxembourg with his wife and child. [13]
Fun Fact
Xavier apparently had the inspiration to enter the domaining business when he was shaving one morning.[14]