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Frederick Schiwek

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Country: Luxembourg/ Germany
Email: fschiwek[at]eurodns.com
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Frederick (Freddy) Schiwek is co-Founder and Managing Director of Domain Invest and co-Founder of voipGATE. [1] He is widely known as the former EVP for the EuroDNS of Datacenter (DCL) Group. [2]

Frederick Schiwek is a frequent speaker and adviser to domain name conferences and events. He has personally participated in some significant domain name sales in the recent years.[3]

He resides in Germany, close to the the Luxembourg border,[4] and enjoys golf, squash, reading, and traveling in his free time. [5]

Career History[edit | edit source]

  • When Frederick Schiwek was 14 years old, he started publishing a Computer-Magazine for Commodore 64 users. [6] He attended the Higher Economic School in Germany and started to work as a Turbo C and C++ Program Developer from the age of 16. [7]
  • Frederick Schiwek's working experience started with PM-International, where he gained experience in direct sales and online marketing over a 5-year period, in a number of positions including Marketing Assistant (from May 1997 to December 1998) and Internet Marketing (from 1998 to 2001). [8]
  • In 2001, He joined Netline S.A., a Luxembourg ISP , where he spent 3 years as International Business Development Manager, distributing ISP Products.
  • In March 2004, Frederick Schiwek joined EuroDNS, one of the leading domain register company of Luxembourg, as EVP & International Business Development. He worked there until September, 2008. [9]
  • He has been acting as Member of the Board of the telecommunication company EnumDNS since 2006.
  • He is also the Co-Founder and Managing Director of domain marketplace company Domain Invest, founded in April 2008.
  • In early 2010, Frederick Schiwek made news by selling VooDoo.com to Donny Simonton from Parked.com for $300k.[11] According to Schiwek, Domain Invest bought the name for $31k a few weeks ago from selling and sold it for $300k.[12]

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