STRAAT Investments
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| Type | Commercial |
| Focus | Investments |
| Region | NA |
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| City | Miami |
| Founded | 2005 |
| Founders | Juan Diego Calle |
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STRAAT Investments is the holding company for .co Internet. It is a private investment firm that initially started to invest in residential and commercial property. Its main focus has now expanded to include telecommunications and the Internet.[1] Seeing the scope of digital estate STRAAT has also started investing in domain names and websites.
Their most prominent investment in the domain world is in .co Internet.[2] Juan Diego Calle, the CEO of .co Internet, is also the Founder and Chairman of STRAAT Investments.[3][4] STRAAT acted as an advisor to Arcelandia S.A. and Neustar, the two organizations that applied for commercial management of the string outside Colombia, throughout the procurement process.[5] Besides this, STRAAT has invested in several hotel related domains like ParisHotels.com , NewYorkHotels.com and LondonHotels.com which are operated by Federated Travel.[6]
STRAAT is a sponsor for .nxt conference expected to be held on 20-22 June 2012 in London.[7]
Application for New gTLDs[edit | edit source]
Mr. Calle confirmed that STRAAT Investments is applying to become the registry operator for 13 new generic top level domain names (gTLDs) including: .app,.book, .corp, .design, .gmbh, .group, .inc, .law, .llc, .ltd, .movie, .tech and .web. The company partnered with Neustar to provide back-end registry services.[8] [9][10]
STRAAT Investments is also supporting DotHealth, LLC's application for the .health domain name string.[11]
Projects[edit | edit source]
STRAAT has invested in the following enterprises since it began in 2005:[12]
- .co Internet
- Federated Travel
- MISSION MARKETS™
- The Lakehouse
- Glades Ag
- Rio Rancho
- The Shops at Mary Brickell Village
- Jade Beach
- Providence Capital
- Terespondo
- Dial Commercial Property, Scottsdale, Arizona
- Golden Land, Inc.
- Internet Commerce Association
- Parc Lofts, Miami, FL
- iReit
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ ecok
- ↑ Straat Philosophy
- ↑ Team, Straat.co
- ↑ How to Become an Internet Land Baron, HuffingtonPost.com
- ↑ Colombia Awards CO ccTLD Registry Contract, PRNewswire.com
- ↑ CoInternet
- ↑ dot-nxt
- ↑ Here comes the greatest Internet landgrab in history
- ↑ Parent company of .Co Internet applies for 13 top level domains (here’s the list)
- ↑ How to Become an Internet Land Baron
- ↑ DotHealth, LLC Applies for .Health New Generic Top Level Domain
- ↑ Straat Investments
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