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Celebrate the 1st Million .SE domain name
Register a .SE domain name for only 9 Euro!

EuroDNS is happy to announce that the first millionth registrations of .SE domain names has been achieved, and is therefore offering a great promotion on any .SE registered between now and October 31^st.

Grab this opportunity; register your .SE for only 9 Euro, using the promo code: 1MILSE
You can also now transfer your .SE for free.

The number of .SE domains has now reached an historic level, the one millionth being tolkutbildning.se, which was registered via .SE’s registrar, City Network Hosting AB.

.SE currently accounts for about 75 percent of the net growth of the Swedish domain market. In 2009, .SE had a total market share of 58 percent, and among companies with ten employees or more, with own domain names, 89 percent had a .SE domain.
Last year, 87 percent of all Swedish companies with no fewer than ten employees had a website. This is reflected in the fact that two thirds of the .SE domains are registered by companies. Among private individuals, it is also becoming more common to want to have a separate identity on the Internet. (The Internet Infrastructure Foundation)

Many want to have independent e-mail addresses. Registering a domain name for a private blog has also become twice as common in the past three years and new trends in name registration are emerging. “Part of the new motivations for acquiring a domain name includes registering to achieve more successful search optimization” explains Xavier Buck, CEO of EuroDNS.

Many companies that began with one domain name have since registered new ones for various divisions, departments and products. For example, it is also common to have specific domain names for marketing campaigns.

Take advantage of the .SE promotion & be part of it!

For more information on the .SE, please go to: http://www.eurodns.com/top-level-domain/Sweden/Se

Celebrate the 4th Million .NL domain name
Register a .NL domain name for only 4 Euro!

EuroDNS is happy to announce that the four millionth registrations of .nl domain names has been passed on August 18th, and is therefore offering a great promotion on any .nl registered between now and September 14th. Grab this opportunity; register your .nl for only 4 Euro, using the promo code: 4NL8
You can also now transfer your .NL for 4 Euro to EuroDNS, using the promo code: TR4NL.The 4th million domain name is: tomgoesusa.nl, registered by Tom ter Heerdt from Didam. “To celebrate reaching this milestone, SIDN, the .nl Regsitry, is giving Tom an iPad and waiving all registration fees on his new domain name for as long as he keeps it” (SIDN.org).
Xavier Buck, CEO of EuroDNS, explains “Reaching a total of 4 million domain names for a country code top level domain is truly an achievement. The .nl is thus now placed at the 5th position, in terms of volume of registrations, after .DE, .UK, .CN and .EU. Besides.nl domain names are easy to register and considered to be one of the most secured TLDs. Don’t miss this chance to maybe register the 5th million .nl domain name for only 4 Euro!”
Over the last twelve months, the .nl domain has grown by almost 13%, and in the Netherlands, 38 people in every 100 have broadband internet access – more than anywhere else in the world.
For more information on the .nl, please go to:
http://www.eurodns.com/top-level-domain/Netherlands/Nl

Register a .IM domain name for only 6 Euro @EuroDNS!

EuroDNS is glad to announce a great promotion for the .IM extension, representing the Isle of Man. You can now purchase your .IM domain name for only 6 Euro, an offer valid for 3 months, using the promocode 6IM10.
.IM is the Country Code Top-Level Domain extension for The Isle of Man, a self-governing crown dependency located within the British Isles. The .IM extension is regularly used for personal domain names, Instant Messaging users, Instant Messaging web sites, trademarks and local Isle of Man’s businesses.
Xavier Buck, CEO of EuroDNS, comments “The .IM is first of all the country code domain for the Isle of Man’s businesses and residents. But it is also largely used for personalized web addresses, such as YourName.IM. The .IM is strongly linked to the social characteristic of Instant Messaging, which allows you to create a website using your instant messaging screen name. It’s important to notice that the need of a unique, specific and personalized domain name extension such as .IM is growing. Register today your .IM at EuroDNS for 6 Euro”. 
.IM extension offers a number of interesting possibilities around the personalization and social aspects of a web address. It is also a way to expend one’s business and e-commerce within The Isle of Man.
For more information on this offer and to get more promotions and an extensive list of available extensions, please go here!

Domaining III Spain to take place –
20 free passes @EuroDNS, Register Today!

Luxembourg, August 11th, 2010 - The third annual edition of Spain's largest domain conference, an event started in 2008 by Inverdom’s CEO Dietmar Stefitz, will take place on September 23-25 in Valencia. To get your free pass go to: http://www.eurodns.com/eurodns/domainingSpain

"Domaining III is the leading industry event in Spain, attracting the country's most important domain name investors and online entrepreneurs," said Stefitz. "With top domainers coming in from across Europe, we are sure this event will be a win-win for all attendees."

The high profile aspect of this conference is largely shown by the participation of some key industry leaders: the Castello Brothers (Michael and David Castello) of the Castello Cities Internet Network (CCIN) and Tim Schumacher, CEO and co-Founder of SEDO, will be the Keynote speakers. In addition to their keynote address, the Castello Brothers will conduct a seminar titled, "Domain Names & the Power of Branding."

This domaining event is especially dedicated to the secondary market and the growing domain name investment sector. Indeed, today domain names are being recognized and used as valuable assets, like stocks and bonds.

The participants will take part in workshops and seminars to analyze and discuss the latest market trends, such as SEO, the future and potential of new country code top level domain name extensions (ccTLDs) and the dotbrand project, as well intellectual property issues.

This will also be the perfect timing to celebrate the registration, 25 years ago, of the first domain name registration, “Symbolics.com”.
To be part of this conference and win one of the 20 passes, please register at:
http://www.eurodns.com/eurodns/domainingSpain

.TEL domain names for only 5 Euro at EuroDNS -
.TEL is more than just a normal TLD !

Luxembourg, August 11th, 2010 - After the recent opening of IDN.tel, allowing the registration of .tel domain names in sixteen different languages, EuroDNS is proud to launch a great promotional campaign.

Register your .tel domain name now for only 5 Euro, using the promocode: DUTEL5.
The .tel allows the storage, publishing and updating online of one’s contact information and keywords under a unique domain name, without the need for a website. Having a .tel domain name offers a strong online presence without much development and .tel domain names are optimized for Mobiles and PCs.

Xavier Buck, CEO of EuroDNS, comments “.telnic has created a real and interactive communication hub around .tel domain names. A .tel is like a business card and enables you to store all the information you like about your company. Full control, low cost and real time coverage are also key factors in the importance of having a .tel domain name. Besides, you can now register it for only 5 Euro”.

Over 275,000 .tel names have been registered in just under one year of their availability. .tel domain names have essentially attracted businesses and individual professionals wanting a single branded place online without the hassle of building and maintaining a traditional website to look again at this cost-effective and innovative service.

The recent launch of IDN.tel names is also an important step forward. The IDNs give companies and individuals the chance to register domain names that contain non-Latin characters under the .tel domain. All registrations will be on a first-come, first served basis. One and two character IDN.tel domains will also be available.

The languages selected by the .tel registry, Telnic, are as follows: Chinese, Danish, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish.

For more information on .tel, please go here:

http://www.eurodns.com/top-level-domain/Generic/Tel

PRESS RELEASE:
.CO General Availability Phase Now Open at EuroDNS
Create your opportunity today!


EuroDNS is glad to announce the opening of the General Availability period for .CO domain names. Register today any .CO domain for only 20 Euro! Use the promocode: CO20

The general availability corresponds to the opening of the .CO to the general public. All available .CO domain names can now be registered on a first-come, first-served basis

.CO is a unique opportunity offering registrants a new experience in the branding of their online presence. The .CO extension is assimilated to the notions of visibility, international and credibility. There is a strong sense of attractiveness in these two letters extension and .CO is also highly related to social networks. .CO works perfectly with words such as “COmpany”, “COrporation”, “COmmerce”, “COtent”, “COnnect”, “Communicate”, “and COllaborate”.

Xavier Buck, comments “We are happy to be part of the .CO new era, and offer our customers the possibility to register .CO domain names and thus consolidate their portfolio. We did already open a .CO pre-registration period for the general availability one month ago and it now officially open.  .CO is considered to be the world’s next premier web address. There are lot of opportunities associated to such an extension so don’t miss this new trend!”. 

.CO is more than the top level domain for the Republic of Colombia and enjoys liberal domain registration policies with no domicile or burdensome requirements for example.


For more information, please go to: http://www.eurodns.com/top-level-domain/Columbia/Co

EuroDNS Partners with Open-Xchange to Provide Hosted Groupware

250,000 customers of EuroDNS get Open-Xchange webmail and PIM at no additional charge


LUXEMBOURG, June 30th, 2010 – Open-Xchange, a provider of business-class open source e-mail and collaboration software, announced today an agreement with EuroDNS, a domain name registrar specialized in international domain extensions, to offer hosted e-mail and collaboration.

Within the next month, more than 250,000 customers of EuroDNS will get both Open-Xchange webmail and PIM (Personal Information Management) at no additional charge with an option to move to full groupware, as well as support for mobile devices.

“Our SME (small- and medium-size enterprise) customers have been asking us for hosted applications to improve their office communication and securely store their documents,” said Xavier Buck, CEO of EuroDNS. “Open-Xchange is the ideal platform to extend our application services from hosting to SaaS. Open-Xchange provides unmatched user experience and features, along with a very attractive price point for our customers."

"Open-Xchange helps service providers to gain competitive advantage and significantly grow profitability,” said Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange. “By leveraging our Open-Xchange software, EuroDNS will strengthen their relationship with existing customers, increase their average revenue per user and attract new customers."

Open-Xchange software integrates e-mail, calendar, contact and task management with advanced groupware features such as information management and document sharing. Productivity is enhanced through unique teamwork features, like team view, single-password document sharing, and shared calendars, contacts, tasks and documents.

With recently introduced “Social OX” features, Open-Xchange also gives users the ability to consolidate any kind of existing webmail accounts — for example from Google and Yahoo — into a folder in Open-Xchange so they can be managed more easily. In addition, contact details from social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn or Xing can be added automatically to the Open-Xchange address book — giving users easy access to the latest contact information within their personal network. Users can now integrate and merge their address books from Google Mail and Facebook into Open-Xchange, as well.

Open-Xchange is used by more than 15 million users worldwide as hosted and on-premises business-class e-mail and groupware.


About EuroDNS
EuroDNS is a Domain name Registrar specialized in International Domain extensions. Based in Luxembourg with branch offices in Europe, the U.S. and Asia with AsiaDNS, EuroDNS serves a large variety of clients ranging from SMEs to some of the world’s largest Domain Investors and offers dedicated naming solutions to trademark holders. By strongly participating in leading industry forums including ICANN and the International Trademark Association, EuroDNS seeks to promote e-Commerce and wider Internet adoption. For more information, visit www.eurodns.com.


About Open-Xchange
Open-Xchange is the innovator of scalable and integrated open source e-mail and collaboration solutions for enterprises, academic institutions, and government authorities. The company provides on-premises versions called Open-Xchange Server Edition and Open-Xchange Appliance Edition, along with Open-Xchange Hosting Edition, which enables web hosting companies to provide an easy-to-use and feature-rich application delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS). The Open-Xchange Hosting Edition is architected to integrate into a hosting provider’s existing infrastructure, such as authentication, provisioning, billing, and e-mail storage and does not require that these systems be replaced.

Open-Xchange AG is a privately-held company headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany with offices in Olpe, Germany and Tarrytown, N.Y. For more information, visit www.open-xchange.com.

.CO Landrush Phase Now Open at EuroDNS

Luxembourg, June 21st 2010 - EuroDNS is glad to announce the opening of the .CO Landrush phase. The pre-registration is also open for the General Availability period.

The Landrush period gives the opportunity to anyone interested in securing a short and memorable domain name of high commercial value to submit an application before the General Availability begins. An auction will be used in case of matching domain names.

.CO is a unique opportunity offering registrants a new experience in the branding of their online presence. The .CO extension is assimilated to the notions of visibility, international and credibility. There is a strong sense of attractiveness in these two letters extension and .CO is also highly related to social networks. .CO works perfectly with words such as “COmpany”, “COrporation”, “COmmerce”, “COtent”, “COnnect”, “Communicate”, “and COllaborate”.

Xavier Buck, comments “The .CO landrush is the next step in the .CO launch.  This extension is opening a new era and considered to be the world’s next premier web address. We are offering you the possibility to also pre-register your .CO domain name for the General Availability phase”. 

.CO is more than the top level domain for the Republic of Colombia and enjoys liberal domain registration policies with no domicile or burdensome requirements for example.

There are two launch phases for the .CO domain registration process. These phases are the Landrush and General Availability.

Landrush, from June 21st to July 16th , 2010 – The landrush is a period during which interested parties can seek to register priority domains not previously registered or reserved by the Registry or Restricted by Policy. An auction process will be used to allocate domain names in the event that more than one applicant applies for the same domain. Due to its early-bird status, Landrush Registration is subject to an increased price, directly determined by the Registry. This is why a yearly premium registration fee of €260 will be charged on top of the non refundable €10 validation fee.

General Availability is starting on July 20th, 2010 – The general availability is the date when .CO opens to the general public, and available .CO domain names can be registered on a first-come, first-served basis. The yearly fee will be of €28.

For more information, please go to: http://www.eurodns.com/top-level-domain/Columbia/Co

Today, DCL Group, a leading Internet and e-commerce company, made of the well known Datacenter Luxembourg, EuroDNS and voipGATE, reaches a milestone as it celebrates its 10 year anniversary.

Headquartered in Luxembourg, DCL Group has managed to position itself strongly on the European map and also across the oceans in its respective fields of expertise: Datacenter and Infrastructure, Domain Names, Telecommunication and VoIP.
With the recent creation of LuxCloud, DCL Group is opening a new era and positioning itself as a leader and key Internet player within the Grand Duchy and Europe.
Xavier Buck, Founder and CEO of EuroDNS, comments “These 10 years have been exciting and challenging. We have had hectic and interesting moments throughout the years. Thanks to the commitment and belief of a number of actors, as well as strong operational teams, we have achieved our goals. Internet is a fast moving world and we are completely in tune with it ”
It all started with the meeting of two completely different characters, Marco Houwen and Xavier Buck who decided to change the Internet world. They were ready and eager to become pioneers and open new eras. They started their journey with the creation of Datacenter Luxembourg (www.datacenter.eu) in 2000, which became an independent and leading datacentre service provider. In just a few years and thanks to constantly improving infrastructure and connectivity within the Grand Duchy, Datacenter Luxembourg expanded within the European scene with a large panel of services.

Only 2 years later and in the wake of the .EU domain name extension, Xavier Buck decided to take over the domain name world and he created EuroDNS (www.eurodns.com), a worldwide domain name registrar. Today, EuroDNS counts more than 300 extensions and is much more than just a registrar. EuroDNS covers all aspects of the industry: the primary market with its large panel of extensions worldwide; the secondary market targeting domain name investment and auctioning with Domain Invest (www.domaininvest.lu); the online brand management with its corporate arm eBrand Services (www.ebrandservices.com), helping some of Europe’s largest companies to develop and strongly position their brand on the Internet; the media side with the management and deployment of the domain name news portal, DomainNews (www.domainnews.com);  the domain name recovery side with DomainRecovery.com, which provides an online step-by-step solution to the domain recovery needs; major tools such as domain history, monitoring, ownership search, mark alert and typo squat domain finder, thanks to the participation of EuroDNS in one of the top 200 most trafficked websites in the world, Domain Tools (www.domaintools.com).

Following the new technological trends and the telecommunication industry, Xavier and Marco created voipGATE (www.voipgate.com) in 2004. voipGATE rapidly became a unique and leading Operator in Voice over IP by offering telecommunication services and local Phone Numbers across the world. voipGATE also created strong partnerships with PBX key brands and various mobile devices. The insurance of flexibility, reliability and ease of use are truly part of voipGATE’s goals and values.

Marco Houwen concludes, “We couldn’t have written the last 10 years differently and I am proud of what we have achieved and where we stand today. With our constant willingness to create, reach, innovate, and be successful, the next 10 years will surely be full of surprises and new challenges. And we are ready!”

 See you in 2020!

EuroDNS is proud to announce the opening of IDN.tel, which allows the registration of .tel domain names in sixteen different languages.

The IDNs give companies and individuals the chance to register domain names that contain non-Latin characters under the .tel domain. All registrations will be on a first-come, first served basis. One and two character IDN.tel domains will also be available.

Register today and benefit from our 50% promotion. Use the promocode TELGOIDN, valid until July 15th, 2010.

The languages selected by the .tel registry, Telnic, are as follows: Chinese, Danish, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. More languages will follow based on demand and possibilities.
 
Xavier Buck, CEO of EuroDNS, notes “The introduction of IDN.tel is part of our willingness and efforts to offer a maximum of IDNs, whenever it is technically possible and for any domain name extensions in which IDNs are available. We have recently launched IDNs in .LU, .PL, .EU, .DE, .COM and .NET, and the list will keep expanding this year. Please stay tuned!”.

Over 275,000 .tel names have been registered in just under one year of their availability. .tel domain names have essentially attracted businesses and individual professionals wanting a single branded place online without the hassle of building and maintaining a traditional website to look again at this cost-effective and innovative service.

“With the launch of IDN.tel names, individuals and organizations in many more countries can now benefit from a simple, single and professional point of contact that they can share with friends, colleagues and customers and which is instantly formatted for any device connected to the internet,” said Justin Hayward, Communications Director at Telnic Limited. “With its low cost, ease of setup and support for multiple languages, a .tel name is an incredibly accessible and beneficial tool to enable people to connect in the way they want to, both locally and worldwide.”