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Type:	GmbH (limited liability - Germany)
Industry:	Internet, Domain Names
Founded:	1998
Founder(s):	Alexander Siffrin
Ownership:	CentralNic
Headquarters:	Im Oberen Werk 1 66386 St. Ingbert
Country:	Germany
Products:	RRPproxy BrandShelter domaindiscount24 Moniker (Florida/USA) SkyWay DataCenter KSregistry OpenRegistry toweb Brasil nicSaarland PartnerGate traffic.club
Employees:	KS HQ 80+, KD/KS group 120+
Website:	Key-Systems.net
Facebook:	KeySystems
Twitter:	@Key_Systems
Key People
Alexander Siffrin, CEO Bonnie Wittenburg, (EVP, USA) Jessica Pfeiffer, Marketing/Human Resources Volker Greimann, General Counsel Markus Müller, Business Development (Domainer) Andreas Soll, Product Manager (BrandShelter)

Key-Systems Group is a leading international internet service provider. Key-Systems was founded in 1998 by Alexander Siffrin and received it's accreditation from ICANN as an official registrar in October, 2000. The German company has branch offices in the USA and in Brasil and provides services to its end-customers and resellers through its domain portals: RRPproxy, BrandShelter and domaindiscount24 ^[1].

As of Jan, 2014, the Key-Systems/ Moniker Group has over 6 million gTLD & ccTLD domains under its management.^[2] The group is currently ranked second among leading registrars for global TLDs in Europe. They currently offer the fully-automated registration of more than 300 top-level and second-level domains and the will add over 700 new TLDs.^[3] The Registry Services of KSregistry GmbH is now concentrated in the CentralNic Registry, providing Registry Services to 118 TLDs.

Key-Systems Group is part of KeyDrive SA, which was formed through a merger between Key-Systems and NameDrive in June 2011. In Januuary, 2012, KeyDrive acquired former rivals Moniker and SnapNames from Oversee.net for an undisclosed amount. Following the acquisition, the KeyDrive registrars collectively ranked sixth in the list of the world's largest ICANN-accredited registrars for generic TLDs.^[4] Snapnames was sold in 2014 to web.com. Since August 2018 Key-Systems is part of the enlarged CentralNic Group.

New gTLDs

The company announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary KSregistry had been selected to provide back-end registry services for 3 ccTLDs and 27 gTLDs, including GeoTLDs such as .saarland and .zuerich, generic TLDs like .ski and .bio, and brand TLDs for leading companies from the automotive, finance, tourism, media and health sectors; together with OpenRegistry (member of the KeyDrive Group since January 2017) the Group provides services for another 20 TLDs.

Key-Systems is a limited partner of dotBerlin GmbH since 2006 [1]

History

In October 1998, Alexander Siffrin founded Key-Systems GbR (Gesellschaft bürgerlichen Rechts), a civil law partnership company, in Friedrichsthal/Saarland, Germany.

Key-Systems GbR was turned into a limited liability company Key-Systems GmbH (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) in 2000. ^[5]

In 2000, Key-Systems launched DomainDiscount24.com (DD24), the domain portal for end-customers. On November 10th, 2000, ICANN announced that Key-Systems GmbH d/b/a DomainDiscount24.com had qualified to be accredited as a domain name registrar for the .com, .net, and .org domains.^[6]

In 2001, Key-Systems launched its reseller portal RRPproxy.net. That same year, Key-Systems joined DENIC, an association for the administration of the German ccTLD (.de). Key-Systems also participated in the first meetings addressing the implementation of a domain dotEU TLD for Europe.

Key-Systems participated in Verisign's IDN testbed in 2002. At this point, Key-Systems provided more than 60 different domain name extensions.

In 2007, Key-Systems took over the former Verisign Namestore Business for leading ccTLDs, migrating the ccTLD domain portfolios to the RRPproxy platform.

In May, 2009, Key-Systems founded its US subsidiary in the Washington D.C. metro area, and Bonnie Wittenburg was announced as Executive Vice President for Key-Systems USA, Inc. ^[7]

In July 2009, Key-Systems invested in[DevKey Domain Management Solutions, buying 49% of its share.^[8]

In 2010, Key-Systems moved to its new own corporate headquarter in St. Ingbert and built its own TIER III datacenter (SkyWay-DataCenter)</ref>

Since July 2011, Key-Systems continues on as a subsidiary of KeyDrive SA, which also is the owner of NameDrive.^[9]

In January 2012, Moniker and SnapNames were acquired from Oversee.net by KeyDrive SA^[10].

In February, 2012 Key-Systems outsourced its registry services division KSregistry into a new subsidiary, KSregistry GmbH^[11].

2013 toweb Brasil joins the Key-Systems stable.

2014 dotSaarland GmbH starts its operation of the new Geo TLD .saarland (nic.saarland); (Key-Systems holds the majority of the dotSaarland GmbH)
2016 traffic.club starts its acivities
2017 OpenRegistry joins the KeyDrive stable.

Products and Services

Key-Systems provides services to resellers, companies and end-customer's through its three domain portals:

RRPproxy: for domain-resellers of both gTLD and ccTLD domain names, RRPproxy provides registration of domains through a WebInterface, Direct-Socket-Access, Email-Template, or API.

BrandShelter: helps to manage and monitor huge domain portfolios, and includes support in planning, executing and operating a TLD including registry services by KSregistry.

domaindiscount24 (dd24): domain registration portal, including web and mailspace offers available in five different languages, targeted at retail customers.

Awards

Key-Systems received the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award in 2008, 2009, 2010 amd 2011. ^[12] ^[13]

References

[1] Wide PR.com

[2] Web Hosting Info.com

[3] Key-Systems History

[4] Moniker and Snapnames join Key-Systems Stable

[5] Key-Systems.net

[6] ICANN.org

[7] Free Press Release

[8] PR.com

[9] Moniker and Snapnames join Key-Systems stable, DomainIncite.com

[10] Moniker and SnapNames Join Key-Systems Stable, DomainIncite.com

[11] ttp://key-systems.net/businessareas/ksregistry.php

[12] Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2011

[13] Domain Name News.com

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 | headquarters = Im Oberen Werk 1<br/>66386 St. Ingbert
 | country = Germany
-| ownership = [[KeyDrive SA]]
+| ownership = [[CentralNic]]
 | businesses =
-| products = [[domaindiscount24]] (dd24), [[RRPproxy]], [[BrandShelter]], [[SkyWay-DataCenter]], [[KS Registry Services]], [[DN Worker]]
+| products = [[RRPproxy]] <br> [[BrandShelter]] <br>[[domaindiscount24]] <br> [http://www.moniker.com Moniker (Florida/USA]) <br> [[SkyWay DataCenter]] <br> [[KSregistry]]  <br>
-| employees = KS HQ 70+, KD/KS group 160+
+[http://www.OpenRegistry.com OpenRegistry] <br>
+[http://www.towebbrasil.com toweb Brasil] <br> [http://www.nic.saarland nicSaarland] <br>
+[http://www.PartnerGate.de PartnerGate] <br>
+[http://www.traffic.club traffic.club] <br>
+| employees = KS HQ 80+, KD/KS group 120+
 | website = [http://key-systems.net Key-Systems.net]
 | facebook = [http://www.facebook.com/KeySystems KeySystems]
 | twitter = Key_Systems
-| keypeople = [[Alexander Siffrin]], CEO<br/>
+| keypeople = [[Alexander Siffrin]], CEO<br/> [[Bonnie Wittenburg]], (EVP, USA)<br/>
-[[Bonnie Wittenburg]], EVP, US<br/>
 [[Jessica Pfeiffer]], Marketing/Human Resources<br/>
 [[Volker Greimann]], General Counsel<br/>
-[[Jochen Kieler]], International Business Development <br>
 [[Markus Müller]], Business Development  (Domainer) <br>
 [[Andreas Soll]], Product Manager (BrandShelter)
 }}
-'''Key-Systems Group''' is a leading international internet service provider. Key-Systems was founded in 1998 by [[Alexander Siffrin]] and received it's accreditation from [[ICANN]] as an official [[:Category:Registrars|registrar]] in October, 2000. The German company has subsidiaries in the USA and Mexico and provides services to its end-customers and resellers through its three domain portals: [[RRPproxy]], [[BrandShelter]], and [[domaindiscount24]].<ref>[http://www.widepr.com/company/850/Key_Systems.html Wide PR.com]</ref> Key-Systems holds shares in [[AZ.pl]]- the first ICANN accredited registrar in Poland.
+'''Key-Systems Group''' is a leading international internet service provider. Key-Systems was founded in 1998 by [[Alexander Siffrin]] and received it's accreditation from [[ICANN]] as an official [[:Category:Registrars|registrar]] in October, 2000. The German company has branch offices in the USA and in Brasil and provides services to its end-customers and resellers through its  domain portals: [[RRPproxy]], [[BrandShelter]] and [[domaindiscount24]] <ref>[http://www.widepr.com/company/850/Key_Systems.html Wide PR.com]</ref>.
-As of Jan, 2012, Key-Systems has over 3,2 million [[gTLD]] & [[ccTLD]] domains under its management.<ref>[http://www.webhosting.info/registrars/reports/total_domains/KEY-SYSTEMS.NET Web Hosting Info.com]</ref> There are another 1 million domain names registered by companies of the Key-Systems Group and more than 1,9 million domains on the platform of Moniker (part of the KeyDrive SA since January 2012). The group is currently ranked second among leading registrars for global [[TLD]]s in Europe. They currently offer the fully-automated registration of more than 300 top-level and second-level domains.<ref>[http://www.key-systems.net/company/history.php Key-Systems History]</ref> The Registry Services of Key-Systems (offered since 2001) is now concentrated in the new company KSregistry GmbH. Apart of registry services for 4 ccTLDs  KSregsitry provides registry services for 31 new TLD applicants.
+As of Jan, 2014, the Key-Systems/ [[Moniker]] Group has over 6 million [[gTLD]] & [[ccTLD]] domains under its management.<ref>[http://www.webhosting.info/registrars/reports/total_domains/KEY-SYSTEMS.NET Web Hosting Info.com]</ref> The group is currently ranked second among leading registrars for global [[TLD]]s in Europe. They currently offer the fully-automated registration of more than 300 top-level and second-level domains and the will add over 700 new TLDs.<ref>[http://www.key-systems.net/company/history.php Key-Systems History]</ref> The Registry Services of KSregistry GmbH is now concentrated in the CentralNic Registry, providing Registry Services to 118 TLDs.
-Key-Systems Group is part of [[KeyDrive SA]], which was formed through a merger between Key-Systems and [[NameDrive]] in June 2011. In Januuary, 2012, KeyDrive acquired former rivals [[Moniker]] and [[SnapNames]] from [[Oversee.net]] for an undisclosed amount. Following the acquisition, the KeyDrive registrars collectively ranked sixth in the list of the world's largest [[ICANN]]-accredited [[registrar]]s for generic TLDs.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/moniker-and-snapnames-join-key-systems-stable/ Moniker and Snapnames join Key-Systems Stable]</ref>
+Key-Systems Group is part of [[KeyDrive SA]], which was formed through a merger between Key-Systems and [[NameDrive]] in June 2011. In Januuary, 2012, KeyDrive acquired former rivals [[Moniker]] and [[SnapNames]] from [[Oversee.net]] for an undisclosed amount. Following the acquisition, the KeyDrive registrars collectively ranked sixth in the list of the world's largest [[ICANN]]-accredited [[registrar]]s for generic TLDs.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/moniker-and-snapnames-join-key-systems-stable/ Moniker and Snapnames join Key-Systems Stable]</ref> Snapnames was sold in 2014 to web.com. Since August 2018 Key-Systems is part of the enlarged [[CentralNic]] Group.
 ==New gTLDs ==
-Th company announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary [[KSregistry]] had been selected to provide back-end registry services for 31 gTLDs, including [[GeoTLD]]s such as [[.saarland]] and [[.zuerich]], [[gTLD|generic TLDs]] like  [[.ski]] and [[.design]], and [[brand TLD]]s for leading companies from the automotive, finance, tourism, media and health sectors.
+The company announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary [[KSregistry]] had been selected to provide back-end registry services for 3 ccTLDs and 27 gTLDs, including [[GeoTLD]]s such as [[.saarland]] and [[.zuerich]], [[gTLD|generic TLDs]] like  [[.ski]] and [[.bio]], and [[brand TLD]]s for leading companies from the automotive, finance, tourism, media and health sectors; together with OpenRegistry (member of the KeyDrive Group since January 2017) the Group provides services for another 20 TLDs.
+Key-Systems is a limited partner of dotBerlin GmbH since 2006  [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SycfrTQs0Yc]
 ==History==
-* In 1998, [[Alexander Siffrin]] founded Key-Systems GbR (Gesellschaft bürgerlichen Rechts), a civil law partnership company, in Friedrichsthal/Saarland, Germany.
+* In October 1998, [[Alexander Siffrin]] founded Key-Systems GbR (Gesellschaft bürgerlichen Rechts), a civil law partnership company, in Friedrichsthal/Saarland, Germany.
 * Key-Systems GbR was turned into a limited liability company Key-Systems GmbH (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) in 2000. <ref>[http://www.key-systems.net/company/history.php Key-Systems.net]</ref>
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 * Key-Systems participated in [[Verisign]]'s [[IDN]] testbed in 2002. At this point, Key-Systems provided more than 60 different domain name extensions.
-* In 2004, the company was relocated from Bexbach to Zweibrücken. In 2010 Key-Systems' headquarters were relocated from Zweibrücken to St. Ingbert, in its own company building.
 * In 2007, Key-Systems took over the former [[Verisign]] Namestore Business for leading ccTLDs, migrating the ccTLD domain portfolios to the [[RRPproxy]] platform.
-* In October, 2008, Key-Systems invested in a software developer company [[Avarteq]].<ref>[http://www.openpr.com/news/129424/Key-Systems-invests-in-software-specialist-Avarteq.html Open PR.com]</ref>
+* In May, 2009, Key-Systems founded its US subsidiary in the Washington D.C. metro area, and [[Bonnie Wittenburg]] was announced as Executive Vice President for Key-Systems USA, Inc. <ref>[http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200905/1241531607.html Free Press Release]</ref>
-* In May, 2009, Key-Systems founded its US subsidiary in the Washington D.C. metro area, and [[Bonnie Wittenburg]] was announced as Executive Vice President for Key-Systems USA, Inc. <ref>[http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200905/1241531607.html Free Press Release]</ref> In November, 2009, Key-Systems opened another subsidiary in Monterrey, Mexico to focus on the Latin American Market.<ref>[http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/112409_Key_Systems_Establishes_Latin_American_Presence_with_Office_in_Mexico Web Host Industry Review]</ref>
+*In July 2009, Key-Systems invested in[DevKey Domain Management Solutions, buying 49% of its share.<ref>[http://www.pr.com/press-release/166886 PR.com]</ref>
-*In July 2009, Key-Systems invested in [[DevKey]] Domain Management Solutions, buying 49% of its share.<ref>[http://www.pr.com/press-release/166886 PR.com]</ref>
+* In 2010, Key-Systems moved to its new own corporate headquarter in St. Ingbert and built its own TIER III datacenter (SkyWay-DataCenter)</ref>
-* In 2010, Key-Systems took over the majority of [[AZ.pl]], a leading Polish domain registrar company, moved to its new corporate headquarter in St. Ingbert and built its own TIER III datacenter (SkyWay DataCenter).<ref>[http://www.pr-inside.com/key-systems-takes-over-majority-of-r1817639.htm PR Inside]</ref>
 * Since July 2011, Key-Systems continues on as a subsidiary of [[KeyDrive SA]], which also is the owner of [[NameDrive]].<ref>[http://domainincite.com/moniker-and-snapnames-join-key-systems-stable/ Moniker and Snapnames join Key-Systems stable, DomainIncite.com]</ref>
-* In January, 2012, Israeli [[registrar]], [[Domain The Net]], filed a lawsuit against Key-Systems over their respective brand management trademarks - Key-System's [[BrandShelter.com|BrandShelter]] and [[Domain The Net]]'s BrandShield. Key-Systems had previously filed an objection against the BrandShield trademark application, referring to the confusing similarity of the newer application in comparison to the existing trademark.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/key-systems-sued-over-brand-protection-trademark/ Key Systems Sued Over Brand Protection Trademark, DomainIncite.com]</ref>
 * In January 2012, [[Moniker]] and [[SnapNames]] were acquired from [[Oversee.net]] by [[KeyDrive SA]]<ref>[http://domainincite.com/moniker-and-snapnames-join-key-systems-stable/ Moniker and SnapNames Join Key-Systems Stable, DomainIncite.com]</ref>.
 * In February, 2012 Key-Systems outsourced its registry services division KSregistry into a new subsidiary, [[KSregistry GmbH]]<ref>http://key-systems.net/businessareas/ksregistry.php</ref>.
+* 2013 [http://www.towebbrasil.com toweb Brasil] joins the Key-Systems stable.
+* 2014 [[DotSaarland GmbH|dotSaarland]] GmbH starts its operation of the new Geo TLD .saarland ([http://nic.saarland nic.saarland]); (Key-Systems holds the majority of the dotSaarland GmbH)
+* 2016 [http://www.traffic.club traffic.club] starts its acivities
+* 2017 [[OpenRegistry]] joins the KeyDrive stable.
 ==Products and Services==
-Key-Systems provides services to its end-customer's resellers through its three domain portals.
+Key-Systems provides services to resellers, companies and end-customer's through its three domain portals:
-* [[domaindiscount24]] (dd24): domain registration portal, including web and mailspace offers available in five different languages, targeted at retail customers.
 * [[RRPproxy]]: for domain-resellers of both [[gTLD]] and ccTLD domain names, RRPproxy provides registration of domains through a WebInterface, Direct-Socket-Access, Email-Template, or [[API]].
 * [[BrandShelter]]: helps to manage and monitor huge domain portfolios, and includes support in planning, executing and operating a [[TLD]] including registry services by [http://key-systems.net/businessareas/ksregistry.php?lang=en KSregistry].
+* [[domaindiscount24]] (dd24): domain registration portal, including web and mailspace offers available in five different languages, targeted at retail customers.
 ==Awards==
-Key-Systems ranked 9th, 22rd, 23rd and 43rd in the '''Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award''' in 2008, 2009, 2010 amd 2011 respectively (combined growth rate 2003-2008 is 980%) . <ref>[http://www.deloitte.com/view/de_DE/de/branchen/technology-media-telecommunications/technologyfast50/awardkategorien/73a883a19e853310VgnVCM3000001c56f00aRCRD.htm Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2011]</ref> <ref>[http://www.domainnamenews.com/up-to-the-minute/keysystems-named-fast-50-deloitte-technology/8280 Domain Name News.com]</ref>
+Key-Systems received the '''Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award''' in 2008, 2009, 2010 amd 2011. <ref>[http://www.deloitte.com/view/de_DE/de/branchen/technology-media-telecommunications/technologyfast50/awardkategorien/73a883a19e853310VgnVCM3000001c56f00aRCRD.htm Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2011]</ref> <ref>[http://www.domainnamenews.com/up-to-the-minute/keysystems-named-fast-50-deloitte-technology/8280 Domain Name News.com]</ref>
 ==References==
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