InterNetX

InterNetX is a German internet service provider and business-to-business infrastructure company founded in Regensburg in 1998. The company describes itself as a domain registrar and IaaS provider, developing services around domains, hosting and encryption. Its stated mission is to build IT products that help business partners meet digital challenges and scale their operations. InterNetX presents itself as a provider for providers: it enables reselling of domains and hosting services, including through white-label applications, rather than positioning its offering solely as a direct-to-consumer hosting brand. Its portfolio includes domain registration and management, DNS services, cloud servers and reseller hosting, colocation, TLS/SSL and other certificate products, and software for managing these services. AutoDNS is its domain and SSL platform; the company also offers the InterNetX Server Administration Center (ISAC) for server products and an SSL Manager for certificate ordering and administration. The Domain Robot API supports automation and integration with partner systems. InterNetX says it offers access to more than 1,050 top-level domains and reports managing more than 22 million domains, hosting over 3,000 servers, and managing more than 8 million certificates on its About Us page. The company serves resellers, registrars, SaaS providers, hosting and managed-service providers, domain investors, corporations and agencies. Its website describes a worldwide partner base and identifies additional offices in Munich and Miami; the German Wikipedia excerpt gives Regensburg as its headquarters. InterNetX is part of the United Internet group. The supplied German Wikipedia excerpt states that United Internet acquired an 80% stake in 2004 and that its shareholding later increased to 95.56%; the evidence does not establish a current exact ownership percentage. InterNetX remains an active commercial provider, emphasizing reliability, performance, expertise, flexible partner services and a global setup.

InterNetX was founded in Regensburg in 1998 by Hakan Ali, responsible for marketing and sales, and Curd Bems, responsible for development, according to the supplied German Wikipedia entry. From its beginnings, it adopted a business-to-business model as a provider for providers, offering domain registration and web-hosting packages for resale as white-label services. The company’s official About Us page describes it as an early domain registrar and says its digital infrastructure has supported business partners for more than two decades. A key early product development was AutoDNS. The German Wikipedia account dates the first version’s launch to 1999 and describes it as a multi-tenant domain administration interface in which domains, customers, name servers and permissions could be managed. InterNetX’s current product pages continue to identify AutoDNS as its domain platform, now combining domain and SSL management functions. The company later expanded into operating its own data-centre infrastructure: the German Wikipedia entry says it opened its first data centre in Regensburg in the early 2000s. United Internet became a major owner in December 2004, when it acquired an 80% stake, according to the supplied German Wikipedia excerpt. The excerpt says the acquisition was accompanied by plans to bring reseller business under InterNetX. At that point, the entry reports approximately 700,000 registered domains and 500 servers. The same source says United Internet’s stake later rose to 95.56%, but the evidence provided does not establish when that later figure applied or confirm a current percentage. Growth in infrastructure continued during the following years. In November 2006, InterNetX and EMC HostCo GmbH brought another data centre into operation in Munich, according to the German Wikipedia history. The current company profile also lists offices in Munich and Miami and describes an ISO-certified data centre, colocation services and hosting projects. Its service portfolio has broadened beyond domain registration and hosting to include encryption and security products. The current official pages describe TLS/SSL certificates, S/MIME and code-signing services, alongside certificate management software and reseller solutions. InterNetX’s present-day business remains oriented toward business partners. Its official About Us page describes more than 20,000 partners worldwide, over 22 million managed domains, more than 3,000 hosted servers and over 8 million managed certificates. Its domains page identifies SaaS providers, registrars, domain investors, hosting and managed-service providers, corporations and agencies as customer groups, and states that its TLD portfolio exceeds 1,050. AutoDNS, the Domain Robot API, ISAC and SSL Manager are among the named tools through which it serves this partner ecosystem. The available evidence supports an active company headquartered in Regensburg and affiliated with United Internet, but does not provide a current executive roster or a precise present-day ownership breakdown.

• 2010

  DDoS attack disrupts name-server availability

• 2006

  Additional data centre opens in Munich

• 2004

  United Internet acquires a majority stake

• 1999

  First AutoDNS platform goes online

• 1998

  InterNetX founded in Regensburg

A business-to-business, provider-for-providers domain registrar and infrastructure specialist, with a focus on reseller and white-label services, domain and DNS management, hosting, and certificate solutions.

• AutoDNS

  InterNetX’s domain and SSL platform, described as a central interface for domain-business requirements.

• Domain Robot API

  An API for automating tasks across InterNetX domain and encryption solutions and integrating systems.

• InterNetX Server Administration Center (ISAC)

  An interface for ordering and monitoring InterNetX server products.

• SSL Manager

  Software for ordering and managing TLS/SSL, S/MIME and code-signing certificates.

• 2010

  Distributed denial-of-service incident

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• 2004

  Reseller business to be consolidated under InterNetXOther

1. 1InterNetX official homepageinternetx.com
2. 2About InterNetXinternetx.com
3. 3InterNetX products and servicesinternetx.com
4. 4Domains and DNS servicesinternetx.com
5. 5InterNetX — German Wikipediade.wikipedia.org
6. 6InterNetX — Wikidatawikidata.org