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EuroDNS

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Type: Private
Industry: Registrar
Founded: Luxembourg(2002)
Founder(s): Xavier Buck
Headquarters: EuroDNS SA 2,
rue Léon Laval L-3372
Leudelange,
Luxembourg
(Europe)
Website: http://www.eurodns.com
Key People
Xavier Buck, CEO
Frederick Schiwek, VP
Jean-Christophe Vignes, General Counsel
Gregory Lonak, CTO

EuroDNS is an internet domain register based in Luxembourg, with other branch offices in Europe, the U.S., and Asia. It was founded in 2002 by, Xavier Buck, the current CEO of the company.[1]

EuroDNS has been involved with European domain names for more than 4 years and is accredited by both ICANN and EURid.[2]. According to its official website, EuroDNS has accreditation with more than 70 registries worldwide. [3]

History

  • In 2006 EuroDNS focused on setting up two new registration services: asiaDNS, which specializes in Asian ccTLDs, and EnumDNS, which specializes in ENUM registration services. [5]
  • In 2008 EuroDNS announced that it was the first ICANN-accredited registrar to sign up to distribute the new communications-focused .tel TLD. [6].
  • In June 2010, EuroDNS and Open Source email and collaboration software provider Open-Xchange webmail announced an agreement to provide Open-Xchange webmail service to more than 250,000 EuroDNS customers at no additional charge.[7]
  • In July, 2010 - EuroDNS announced the opening of the general availability period for .CO domain names. [8]
  • EuroDNS formed stratezic partnership with Dynamic Network Services Inc. (Dyn Inc.) in October 2010.[9]
  • EuroDNS extended their services further by starting to provide domain name registration support for Norway. The Sunrise period for the new .CO.NO extension was opened in November 2010 and will be so until January 31st, 2011.[10]

Products and Services

European countries and .EU domain name registration is the primary service provided by EuroDNS. It also provides generic extensions such as .COM, .NET, .ORG, .MOBI, .INFO, .BIZ, .TELPRO, .JOBS, .AERO, .NAME, .COOP and international domain name registration for Asian country and US states.

It also provides generic services like domain Transfers, forwarding and management, paid and free email packages, free DNS server etc.

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