Frederick Schiwek
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| Country: | Luxembourg |
| Email: | fschiwek[at]eurodns.com |
| Facebook: | Frederick Schiwek |
| LinkedIn: | frederickschiwek |
Frederick (Freddy) Schiwek is co-Founder and Managing Director of Domain Invest and co-Founder of voipGATE. [1] He is widely known as the former EVP of EuroDNS. [2]
He resides in Germany, close to the the Luxembourg border,[3] and enjoys golf, squash, reading, and traveling in his free time. [4] Frederick is married and has a son, who he says already has aspirations of becoming a domainer himself.[5]
Industry Participation
Frederick Schiwek is a frequent speaker and adviser to domain name conferences and events. He has personally participated in some significant domain name sales in the recent years.[6] He was a speaker at the 2010 DOMAINfest, in the session "Alternative Ways to Monetize Domain Traffic".[7]
Career History
- Frederick Schiwek's working experience started with PM-International. There he gained experience in direct sales and online marketing over a 5-year period, and also worked in a number of positions; including Marketing Assistant, and Internet Marketing. [8]
- In 2001, he joined Netline S.A., a Luxembourg ISP , where he spent 3 years as an International Business Development Manager, distributing ISP Products.
- In March 2004, Frederick Schiwek joined EuroDNS, one of the leading domain register company of Luxembourg, as EVP of International Business Development. He worked there until September, 2008. [9]
- In December 2004, Frederick co-founded voipGATE, a European Voice over IP Company, with the parent company of EuroDNS, Datacenter Group.[10]
- Frederick has been acting as Member of the Board of the telecommunication company EnumDNS since 2006.
- Mr. Schiwek is also the co-Founder and Managing Director of Domain Invest, a domain marketplace company, founded in April, 2008.
- In early 2010, Frederick Schiwek made news by selling VooDoo.com to Donny Simonton from Parked.com for $300k.[11] According to Schiwek, he originally bought the name for $31k.[12]
Fun Fact
When Frederick Schiwek was 14 years old, he started publishing a Computer-Magazine for Commodore 64 users. [13] He also started to work as a Turbo C and C++ Program Developer at the age of 16.[14]
