STRAAT Investments

STRAAT is the holding company for .co Internet. It is a private investment firm that initially started to invest in residential and commercial property. Its main focus has now expanded to include telecommunications and the Internet.^[1] Seeing the scope of digital estate STRAAT has also started investing in domain names and websites.


Type:	Private
Industry:	Investments
Founded:	28 January 2005
Founder(s):	Juan Diego Calle
Headquarters:	701 Brickell Ave Suite 860 Miami, FL 33131
Country:	USA
Employees:	1-10
Website:	STRAAT.co
LinkedIn:	STRAAT Investments
Key People
Jose Rasco, Managing Director Tom Lackner, Chief Technologist Juan Diego Calle, Chairman Joice Boetius, Performance Improvement Analyst Adyari Morales, Administration

Their most prominent investment in the domain world is in .co Internet.^[2] Juan Diego Calle, the CEO of .co Internet, is also the Founder and Chairman of STRAAT Investments.^[3]^[4] STRAAT acted as an advisor to Arcelandia S.A. and Neustar, the two organizations that applied for commercial management of the string outside Colombia, throughout the procurement process.^[5] Besides this, STRAAT has invested in several hotel related domains like ParisHotels.com , NewYorkHotels.com and LondonHotels.com which are operated by Federated Travel.^[6]

STRAAT is a sponsor for .nxt conference expected to be held on 20-22 June 2012 in London.^[7]

Application for New gTLDs

Calle confirmed that STRAAT Investments is applying to become the registry operator of 13 new generic top level domain names (gTLD) including: .app,.book, .corp, .design, .gmbh, .group, .inc, .law, .llc, .ltd, .movie, .tech and .web. The company partnered with Neustar to provide back-end registry services. ^[8] ^[9] Calle is the founder of STRAAT Investments. ^[10]

Projects

STRAAT has invested in the following enterprises since it began in 2005:^[11]

.co Internet
Federated Travel
MISSION MARKETS™
The Lakehouse
Glades Ag
Rio Rancho
The Shops at Mary Brickell Village
Jade Beach
Providence Capital
Terespondo
Dial Commercial Property, Scottsdale, Arizona
Golden Land, Inc.
Internet Commerce Association
Parc Lofts, Miami, FL
iReit

References

[1] ↑ ecok

[2] Straat Philosophy

[3] Team, Straat.co

[4] How to Become an Internet Land Baron, HuffingtonPost.com

[5] Colombia Awards CO ccTLD Registry Contract, PRNewswire.com

[6] CoInternet

[7] t-nxt

[8] Here comes the greatest Internet landgrab in history

[9] Parent company of .Co Internet applies for 13 top level domains (here’s the list)

[10] How to Become an Internet Land Baron

[11] Straat Investments

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