About PartnerGate

PartnerGate is the specialist for worldwide domain management.

Experience, competence and excellent networking: We have been dealing with domain management for large-scale customers for over 20 years. A period of time in which we were able to deepen and expand our skills and know-how. For our partners this has the advantage of working with a registrar who has an extensive network of contacts in the industry with registries, interest groups and market companions and is always up to date with the latest developments. You can also assume that our highly qualified staff will process your enquiries quickly and competently.

Our portfolio includes target group-specific products and solutions that professional users can expect from an ICANN-accredited registrar. Our focus is on bulk buyers. But even if you manage smaller portfolios, we have excellent options available for you in our partner network. In our advice, support and services we follow the concept of partnership. This means: no products that compete with what our customers offer. So we do not only provide you with an excellent cost-benefit model, but also create added value in your market.

“Especially in growing markets, we see ourselves well positioned with the PartnerGate domain management system. With regard to efficiency, customer orientation and usability, it offers optimal conditions for our partners to further establish and expand their domain business.”

Johannes Steck, Managing Director

The early years

1996
InterNetWire Communications GmbH is founded in Munich in 1996 as a full-service provider and is one of the first Internet pioneers focusing on business customers. During the first few years, the company quickly develops into one of the largest DENIC members and becomes one of the few domain registrars accredited with ICANN for resellers in Germany. Via the domain management system “PartnerGate” more than 600,000 domains will soon be administrated. In the course of specializing in domain management for bulk buyers and resellers, InterNetWire founded independent companies in order to optimize domain purchasing and sales as well as system development for resellers and bulk buyers. The distribution of the domain management system of the same name is carried out by PartnerGate GmbH, while RegistryGate GmbH acts as registrar and InterNetWire Web-Development GmbH is responsible for the development.

The domain registrar specializes in domain services

2009
InterNetWire, the Munich-based domain registrar and expert for domain management, successfully completes its planned restructuring at the end of 2009, thus consistently pursuing its course of specializing in domain services.
Important milestones in the course of the restructuring from a full-service provider to a specialized domain name registrar were the previously scheduled sale of the business units “Internet Access” in November 2008, “Datacenter” in April 2009 as well as the sale of the web hosting business at the end of 2009.

PartnerGate manages over 700,000 domains

2010
The number of domains managed by the domain management system PartnerGate exceeded the 700,000 mark at the end of December 2010. “The growth of our domain numbers reflects the success of our domain management system PartnerGate,” says managing director Andreas Schreiner. “We focus on reliability, comfort and service. And more and more web hosters and Internet service providers are rewarding this. More than 20 percent domain growth last year are a clear sign of this.”

Rise to the Top 50 ICANN Registrars worldwide

2010
Also in December 2010, the InterNetWire group, to which PartnerGate belongs, rose to the 50 largest registrars accredited with ICANN. According to an evaluation by WebHosting.Info, the largest portal for statistics from the domain industry, InterNetWire ranked 49th in the worldwide comparison with the number of registered generic domains. A total of almost a thousand registrars are accredited with ICANN.

PartnerGate starts international expansion and exceeds the limit of 800,000 domains

2011
PartnerGate GmbH has exceeded the limit of more than 800,000 managed domains at the end of 2011. With its correspondingly named reseller portal, the domain registrar was represented at all international events of WorldHostingDays (WHD) in Europe and Asia. As an exhibitor and within the scope of numerous lectures, the domain registrar informed the visitors of the international WHD events especially about the possibilities of his reseller offer. The central focus was on tapping new business potential via the new SOAP/XML interface (API). This enables customers to conveniently expand their existing domain portfolio by purchasing additional ccTLDs from the more than 300 TLDs on offer fully automated.

PartnerGate as official TMCH agent offers new service for the registration of brand names

2013
As an ICANN accredited registrar, PartnerGate GmbH offers web hosters and ISPs the registration of domains under more than 300 of the already existing domain extensions as well as for all new TLDs. As an additional service, trademark registrations with the Trademark Clearinghouse can now be made automatically via the user-friendly web interface. As an official TMCH agent, PartnerGate acts as a direct representative of the trademark owner and is responsible for checking the submitted documents before forwarding them to the Trademark Clearinghouse.

PartnerGate wins cloud hosting specialist dogado as strategic partner and celebrates one million managed domains

2014

The expansion of the strongly growing core business of dogado GmbH, which specializes in cloud hosting services, and the consolidation of the domain area form the basis of the now announced strategic cooperation with PartnerGate GmbH. “Due to our recent provider acquisitions, it was essential for us to find a reliable and innovative outsourcing partner for the management of our domain portfolios, whose offers do not compete with our product portfolio”, comments Robin Tschöpe, managing director of dogado GmbH on the decision for PartnerGate.

PartnerGate takes a pioneering role in data protection regulation with ICANN

2015
At the same time as two other German registrars, Munich-based RegistryGate GmbH succeeded in obtaining an exemption from the current Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA). RegistryGate is ICANN-accredited and a 100% subsidiary of PartnerGate GmbH, for which it acts as a neutral purchasing company. The criticism of the German domain administrators is directed against regulations of the RAA, which obviously violate German and European data protection law.

This means a significant gain in legal certainty for all PartnerGate customers and resellers, especially against the background of the now imminent implementation of the obligation to validate the domain holder’s data for all gTLDs, which also results from the new RAA.

PartnerGate becomes part of the Key-Systems group

2017
Key-Systems GmbH, headquartered in St. Ingbert / Saarland, becomes new shareholder of PartnerGate GmbH as successor of company founder Andreas Schreiner. As a powerful technology partner in the backend area, Key-Systems GmbH enables further growth in a consolidating market environment.

At the same time, Johannes Steck is appointed as the new managing director, thus ensuring the continuity and sustainable development of the company’s divisions.

Fusion of KeyDrive and CentralNic enables global perspectives for PartnerGate

2019
The merging of the KeyDrive group of companies, which belongs to Key-Systems GmbH, with the London-based CentralNic Group PLC opens up further perspectives for PartnerGate GmbH within a global growth strategy, while at the same time focusing on DACH sector and the special requirements of the German-speaking domain market.

2 million customer domains under management

2020
PartnerGate is very pleased with having reached more than two million managed domains and the resulting confidence of customers in our performance. We are taking this as an opportunity to further expand our product range and our consistent customer orientation.

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PartnerGate is part of the London-based CentralNic Group PLC which is listed on the London Stock Exchange Alternative Investment Market (AIM: CNIC). CentralNic develops and manages software platforms allowing businesses globally to use the internet for their websites, email, brand protection and monetisation. With customers in over 190 countries, CentralNic Group is a truly global business both in terms of customer base and onsite presence, deriving revenue from the worldwide sale of domain names, hosting and other critical internet infrastructure services on an annual subscription basis.