EuroDNS
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 company based in Luxembourg with other branch offices in Europe, USA and Asia (AsiaDNS.com). 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 2002, CEO and founder of Datacenter Luxembourg, Xavier Buck, founded EuroDNS as a subsidiary of Datacenter Luxembourg [4]. Founded in the beginning of .eu era, EuroDNS started up as a domain register supporting this particular region and eventually extended into other areas.
In 2006 EuroDNS focused on setting up two new registration services: asiadns which specialized in the asian ccTLDs and enumdns which specialized 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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