Freenom raises $3m

The fresh funding will allow Freenom to expand its operations and further develop its AnyCast cloud network. The company will also begin to look at commercial initiatives for certain markets.

Company
Founded in 2012, Freenom is headquartered in Amsterdam with additional offices in Weiswampach in Luxembourg, Palo Alto in the US and Dakar in Senegal.

Freenom is a registry operator, providing free top-level domains including TK (Tokelau), GA (Gabon) CF (Central African Republic) and ML (Mali). Top-level domains are the end of a URL structure, such as .com, .co.uk and .au.

The company generates revenue by selling the residual traffic of expired domains to advertisement networks. As of January 2014, Freenom will also generate revenue through the offering of services such as hosting packages and secure sockets layer (SSL) certificates to its users.

People
Joost Zuurbier is the founder and CEO of Freenom.

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