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Type: Privately Held
Industry: Internet
Founded: 2008
Founder(s): Xavier Buck,Frederick Schiwek

Markus Schnermann

Ownership: different investors
Headquarters: 12 Route de Longwy

L-8080, Bertrange

Country: Luxembourg
Employees: 1-10
Website: Domain Invest
Facebook: DI-SA
LinkedIn: Domain Invest
Twitter: @DomainInvestLux
Key People
Xavier Buck, Executive Chairman

Frederick Schiwek, Managing Director
Alexander Teschner, CFO

DI S.A formerly known as Domain Invest is a company dedicated to the sale, purchase, monetization, development and leasing of domain names.[1] The company has agreements with some major investment companies including Iris Capital, BIP Investment Partners, Société Nationale de Crédit et d’Investissement and other individual investors; it holds a capital of 18 million Euros.[2]

DI S.A. helds 100% of KeywordDomains GmbH. A German Domaining Company, which operates europes largest Domain Community Consult Domain

DI purchases primarily already existent websites that already generate revenue. Their method of improving monetization of the domain involves dynamically placing advertisements directly contextually related to the domain.[3]

Domain Portfolio

CellPhoneWatch.com & Call.me

DI recently bought cellphonewatch.com and intends to develop a website for cell phone watches and other gadgets.[4]

Call.me was acquired by Domain Invest in 2010 to create the first ever virtual phone booth on the Internet. It will allow subscribers to make calls all over the world.[5]

Other Major domains

DI S.A has and impressive portfolio of over 100,000 premium. They own some of top quality domain names in finance, health and education sectors:

Some of the domains about finance are:

kapitalversicherung.org, baugeldhypothek.de, debtcredit.org, scorecredit.com, iban.com, bestrateloans.com, inforloan.com, demandloans.com, capitaldeal.com, myretirementfunds.com, austinhomemortgage.com, monstermortgage.com and scorecredit.com.[6]

They have recently focused on cornering the domains directly geared toward the growing online education market.[7] Their education related domains include:

ineedadegree.com, degreeexpress.com, teachingandlearning.com, universitydegree.co.uk, linktolearn.com, mycollegeguide.com, onlineschool.com, ecolesprivees.fr, coursdusoir.fr, cours.be, escuelaingles.es, aprenderingles.es, cursoingles.es, gimnazjum.pl and liceum.pl.[8]

The company recently added more than 400 domain names to their profile including:

multivitamins.com , vitamin.eu, antihistamine.com, healthjobusa.com, halitosis.com , womenshealthmagazine.com, diets.net, lowfatdiets.co.uk, dietfood.com and 1daydiet.com, erkaeltung.de, fieber.de , pickel.de, bauchschmerzen.de, periode.de, herpes.de and schmerztabletten.de.[9]

Besides this they also have an extensive multi-lingual portfolio.

Other Stats

  • DomainInvest has paid half a million USD for a single .de domain name.[10]

Prominent Sales

At the Domainer Mardi Gras of 2009, Domain Invest sold Voodoo.com for $300,000.[11] It was the only six-figure sale at the event. The second highest priced domain sold for a comparably small $22,500[12]

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