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{{CompanyInfo|

| logo             = Key-SystemsLogo.gif

| logo = Key-SystemsLogo.gif              

| type             = GmbH (limited liability - Germany)

| type = GmbH (limited liability - Germany)              

| industry         = Internet, Domain names

| industry = Domain Registrar         

| founded           = 1998

| founded = 1998          

| headquarters = Kaiserstraße 172-174<br/>66386 St. Ingbert        

| headquarters     = In the Upper Plant 1<br/>

| country = Germany    

66386 St. Ingbert  

| businesses =          

| country = Germany

| employees = 51-200

| keypeople        = [[Alexander Siffrin]] (CEO/ CTO)<br/>

| website = [http://key-systems.net Key-Systems.net]           

| employees         = 54 (2010)

| website           = http://key-systems.net/

}}

}}

'''Key-Systems,''' is a domain names distributor and management company. It was founded in 1998 by [[Alexander Siffrin]], and received it's accreditation from [[ICANN]] as an official [[:Category:Registrars|registrar]] in October, 2000. This German based company has subsidiaries in the U.S.A. and Mexico and provides services to its end customers and resellers through its three domain portals: RRPproxy.net, BrandShelter.com and domaindiscount24.com. <ref>[http://www.widepr.com/company/850/Key_Systems.html Wide PR.com]</ref>  

'''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: [[CentralNic Reseller]] (formerly [[RRPproxy]], [[BrandShelter]] and [[domaindiscount24]] <ref>[http://www.widepr.com/company/850/Key_Systems.html Wide PR.com]</ref>.

As of November 2010, Key-Systems has over 1,620,000 domains under its management.<ref>[http://www.webhosting.info/registrars/reports/total_domains/KEY-SYSTEMS.NET Web Hosting Info.com]</ref> The company currently holds the second place among the leading registrars for global [[TLD]]s in Europe;<ref>[http://www.pr.com/press-release/225535 PR.com]</ref> and Key-Systems is ranked the 12th largest [[ICANN]] registrars worldwide.<ref>[http://www.webhosting.info/registrars/top-registrars/global/ Web Hosting Info.com]</ref>

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> Snapnames was sold in 2014 to web.com. Since August 2018 Key-Systems is part of the enlarged [[CentralNic]] Group. In 2023, CentralNic Group PLC was rebranded to Team Internet Group PLC.

 

 

Key-Systems is a limited partner of dotBerlin GmbH since 2006  [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SycfrTQs0Yc]

==History==

==History==

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

* In 1998, [[Alexander Siffrin]] founded Key-Systems GbR (Gesellschaft bürgerlichen Rechts), a civil law partnership company, in Friedrichsthal, 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>

 

* 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>

 

 

* 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 domain name registrar in the .com, .net, and .org domains. <ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/icann-pr10nov00-4.htm ICANN.org]</ref>

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

* In 2001, Key-Systems launched its reseller portal [[RRPproxy.net]]. Key-Systems joined [[DENIC]], the cooperative for the administration of the German [[ccTLD]], .de; in the same year. Key-Systems also participated in the first meetings addressing the implementation of a domain .EU for Europe.  

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

* Key-Systems participated in [[VeriSign]]'s [[IDN]] testbed in 2002. By then, Key-Systems  started to provide more than 60 different domain name extensions.  

* 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 2004, the company was relocated from Bexbach to Zweibrücken. Key-Systems headquarters was later relocated from Zweibrücken to St. Ingbert in its own company building in 2010.

*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 2007, Key-Systems Took-over of the former VeriSign Namestore System migrating more than 200,000 domains to the [[RRPproxy]] platform.  

* 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 October, 2008, Key-Systems invested in software developer company [[Avarteq]] <ref>[http://www.openpr.com/news/129424/Key-Systems-invests-in-software-specialist-Avarteq.html Open 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>  

* 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 May, 2009, Key-Systems founded its US subsidiary in Virginia, Washington Metro area and [[Bonnie Wittenburg]] was announced as the new 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 focusing 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 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 2010, Key-Systems took over the majority of [[AZ.pl]], a Polish domain registrar company. <ref>[http://www.pr-inside.com/key-systems-takes-over-majority-of-r1817639.htm PR Inside]</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==

==Products and Services==

Key-Systems provides services to its end customers 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, targeting at retail customers.

* [[CentralNic Reseller]] (formerly RRPproxy: for domain-resellers of both [[gTLD]] and ccTLD domain names, CenntralNic Reseller provides registration of domains through a WebInterface, Direct-Socket-Access, Email-Template, or [[API]].

*[[RRPproxy]]: for domain-resellers of both [[gTLD]] and [[ccTLD]] domain names, its 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].

*[[BrandShelter]]: helps to manage and monitor huge domain portfolios and includes supports in planning, executing and operating the [[TLD]].  

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

==Awards==

==Awards==

[[Deloitte]] Technology awarded Key-Systems the rank 23rd in “Deloitte Fast 50 Technology Award” for the year 2010. <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 and 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>

Key-Systems was ranked 411 in the "2009 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA Ranking and CEO Survey".<ref>[http://www.deloitte.co.uk/fast500emea/fast-500-winners/winners-2009/_Key-Systems_Fast50.pdf deloitte.co.uk] </ref> It was also awarded the Rank 22 of the fastest growing technology companies in Germany by Deloitte.

 

==References==

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