DNSBelgium : Meet the Registrant Behing the 1.5 Millionth .BE Domain Name

DNSBelgium, the company behind .BE extension, has reached the milestone of 1,500,000 domain names on Friday 13,February and also announced who the registrant behind the 1.5 millionth .BE domain is.

You can read the press release after the jump :

“The .be zone reached the milestone of 1,500,000 domain names on Friday 13 February. We wanted to meet the registrant behind the domain name that helped us get there.

The domain name in question, plameco-brugge.be, is registered to Patrick and Jonas Detekelaere, owners of ABIS bvba (All Building Installations & Services). We congratulated them with flowers and asked them some questions.

DNS Belgium: Could you start by telling us more about your company? What is its core business? How long have you been active?

Patrick Deketelaere: We place stretch ceilings. The ABIS company was created especially to distribute Plameco, which is a registered trademark of stretch ceilings. We are the franchise holders for the region Maldegem, Aalter, Ostend, and Knokke. Each region is reserved to a certain franchise holder, which means there’s no overlap.

Specifically, it’s a type of stretch ceiling made from high-end woven synthetic fabric that offers quite a lot of possibilities to incorporate audio and light, for instance, and to optimize the acoustics of a room. Most ceilings can be placed in 1 day, without the need to move the furniture. Even ceilings with a photo print are possible.

Plameco was established in 1982, and we have been franchise holder since 2012. ABIS bvba is part of our ‘Groep Deketelaere’, which offers a whole range of other services. Our target audience at the moment is 80% private individuals, but we hope to expand further into the business market.

DNS Belgium: The domain name which you registered is plameco-brugge.be. Why did you specifically add the word ‘Brugge’ to the domain name? Was this a deliberate choice to focus on the local market, or was it intended to show the origin of the company?

Patrick Deketelaere: We aim to provide a specific domain name for all the big cities in our region. This creates a portal through which potential customers around that city can contact us. On top of this, it’s a easily recognizable and memorable domain name. We also chose this domain name in order to score higher in local searches for our products.

At the moment we already use the domain name brugge.plameco.be, which we host at the franchise provider, Plameco Nederland. We would like to manage our own domain name.

DNS Belgium: Was this the first domain name you registered yourself?

Patrick Deketelaere: No, in the past I already registered other domain names via Telenet, for instance  www.hydropress.be, which we use for our pumping company. That is where I learned about DNS Belgium as the company that manages the .be domain names. With Groep Deketelaere we have registered quite a lot of domain names so far. Our main website, groepdeketelaere.be, will get a complete make-over very soon!”

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