KeyDrive SA
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| Type: | Privately Held Shareholders: is inter-services (majority), BIP Investment Partners, PrizeFlyer |
| Industry: | Registrar, Registry Services, DataCenter, Domain Aftermarket, Brand Protection |
| Founded: | 1998/ 2011 |
| Founder(s): | Key-Systems, NameDrive |
| Country: | Luxembourg |
| Businesses: | Key-Systems, Moniker, SkyWay DataCenter, KSregistry OpenRegistry toweb Brasil, PartnerGate, traffic.club, nicSaarland |
| Employees: | 100+ |
| Email: | info@keydrive.lu |
| Website: | KeyDrive.lu |
| Key People | |
| Management: Alexander Siffrin, President; (CEO of Key-Systems Group) Michael Riedl, Vice-President; (CEO of traffic.club) Volker Greimann, Vice-President; ( Supervisory Board: | |
KeyDrive SA is the holding of the Key-Systems Group (St. Ingbert/ Germany) - including KSregistry, SkyWay DataCenter, domaindiscount24, RRPproxy, BrandShelter, toweb (Brasil) traffic.club (Luxemburg) PartnerGate, nicSaarland, Moniker (USA) and PartnerGate (Munich).
KeyDrive SA acquired Moniker in January, 2012 and OpenRegistry in January 2017.
Following the acquisition of Moniker the Key-Systems group became the world's sixth largest ICANN-accredited registrar.[1]
In March 2018 CentralNic informed about talks for a merger of both groups.
History
KeyDrive was formed in July, 2011, through the merger of German registrar Key-Systems with Luxembourgish aftermarket service provider NameDrive. It is headquartered in Luxembourg.[2]
in March 2018 CentralNic announced negotiations with KeyDrive concerning a reverse takeover.