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 EuroDNS and the DCL Group. He also founded AsiaDNS.[1] Xavier is the Founder and Chairman of Domain Invest.[2]
Career History
Mr. Buck has been involved in entrepenurial Internet projects since 1993.[3] He founded Datacenter Luxembourg in 2000, and EuroDNS in 2002. Both projects have become leading hosting and registration companies in Europe. EuroDNS was one of the first registrars to offer proxy registrations for .fr, and has since lobbied for the opening of other regional ccTLDs.[4]
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.[5] He currently resides in Luxembourg with his wife and child. [6]
Awards & Recognition
In 2008, Xavier Buck was awarded the "Creative Young Entrepreneur Luxembourg" by the Junior Chamber of Commerce of Luxembourg. [7] 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.[8]
Fun Fact
Xavier apparently had the inspiration to enter the domaining business when he was shaving one morning.[9]