Xavier Buck
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| Country: | Luxembourg |
| LinkedIn: |  [xavierbuck Xavier Buck]
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Xavier Buck is the Founder, Executive Director, and CEO of EuroDNS and the DCL Group. He also founded AsiaDNS.[1] Xavier is the Founder and Chairman of Domain Invest.[2]
Mr. Buck is also the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Domain Invest SA,[3] which he founded in 2008. They own over 100,000 premium domains that bring in advertisement revenue, and the company has quickly become a leader in domain investment. It has received a number of high-profile financing rounds from investment firms.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag He founded Datacenter Luxembourg in 2000, and EuroDNS in 2002. Both projects have become leading hosting and registration companies in Europe, and the group to which they both belong, DCL Group, celebrated its 10 year anniversary in 2010.[4] EuroDNS was one of the first registrars to offer proxy registrations for .fr, and has since lobbied for the opening of other regional ccTLDs.[5]
Background
Mr. Buck was enthralled by computing and gaming at a young age; at 14 he created a computing club in his school, which eventually went on to attract some 1,500 members across Luxembourg. Xavier studied both Computer Science and Economics, before leaving academia to start his first software company.[6]
Xavier Buck was born and grew up in Luxembourg. He is fluent in English, German and French. Xavier regularly participates in numerous industry forums and advisory groups.[7] He currently resides in Luxembourg with his wife and child. [8]
Awards & Recognition
In 2008, Xavier Buck was awarded the "Creative Young Entrepreneur Luxembourg" by the Junior Chamber of Commerce of Luxembourg. [9] He beat out two other entrepeneurs for the recognition and award money, and credited his team and the business environment in Luxembourg when accepting the prize. Winning the honor meant that he would represent his country in an international competition of young entrepreneurs.[10]
Fun Fact
Xavier apparently had the inspiration to enter the domaining business when he was shaving one morning.[11]