Frederick Schiwek
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| Country: | Luxembourg |
| Email: | freddy[at]zonat.lu |
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| LinkedIn: |  Frederick Schiwek
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Frederick (Freddy) Schiwek is CEO of Zonat Sarl, a company developing and operating hosting businesses like Hosting.uk, and co-Founder of Domain Invest and co-Founder of voipGATE.[1] He is widely known as the former EVP of EuroDNS. [2]
He resides in Luxembourg, close to the German border,[3] and enjoys golf, squash, reading, and traveling in his free time.[4] Frederick is married and has a son, who he says already has aspirations of becoming a domainer himself.[5]
Industry Participation
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 recent years.[6] He was a speaker at the 2010 DOMAINfest, in the session "Alternative Ways to Monetize Domain Traffic".[7]
Career History
- Frederick Schiwek's working experience started with PM-International. There he gained experience in direct sales and online marketing over a 5-year period, and also worked in a number of positions; including Marketing Assistant, and Internet Marketing. [8]
- In 2001, he joined Netline S.A., a Luxembourg ISP, where he spent 3 years as an International Business Development Manager, distributing ISP Products.
- In March 2004, Frederick Schiwek joined EuroDNS, one of the leading domain register companies of Luxembourg, as EVP of International Business Development. He worked there until September 2008. [9]
- In December 2004, Frederick co-founded voipGATE, a European Voice over IP Company, with the parent company of EuroDNS, Datacenter Group.[10]
- Frederick has been a Member of the Board of the telecommunication company EnumDNS since 2006.
- Mr. Schiwek is also the co-founder and Managing Director of Domain Invest, a domain marketplace company, 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, he originally bought the name for $31k.[12]
- In 2012 he founded hosting.co.uk as a project in Domain Invest.
- In 2018 Freddy separated from hosting.co.uk from Domain Invest and focused completely on hosting.
- Between 2018 and 2022 he acquired under the umbrella of Zonat Sarl different hosting businesses like Luxhosting.com, Letzebuerg.net, monsterhost.com and many more.
Fun Fact
When Frederick Schiwek was 14 years old, he started publishing a Computer-Magazine for Commodore 64 users called POKE.[13] He also started to work as a Turbo C and C++ Program Developer at the age of 16.[14]