Jimdo
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| Type of business | GmbH |
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| Available in | German, English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Italian, Dutch |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Headquarters | Hamburg, Germany |
| Founder(s) | Matthias Henze Christian Springub Fridtjof Detzner |
| Employees | 200 (2015) |
| Slogan(s) | Pages to the People |
| Website | Jimdo |
| Registration | Required |
| Launched | 19 February 2007 |
Jimdo (/ˈdʒɪndoʊ/) is a web hosting service. Jimdo offers JimdoFree, a free web hosting service, JimdoPro and JimdoBusiness, both premium services. Jimdo is operated by Jimdo GmbH, a Hamburg, Germany-based company.
Jimdo was founded in February 2007 by Matthias Henze, Christian Springub, and Fridtjof Detzner.
In April 2009, after Yahoo! announced that GeoCities was closing, Jimdo announced that former GeoCities users were welcome on Jimdo. Jimdo started the "Lifeboat for GeoCities" promotion to help users transition to Jimdo. Jimdo offered a 10 percent discount to users who moved from GeoCities and Google Page Creator to the JimdoPro service.
In 2010, Jimdo added a "store" service that allows Jimdo website owners to conduct electronic commerce services. Also in 2010, United Internet withdrew from the company's board. In February 2012, the 5,000,000th Jimdo site went online and in November 2013, the 10,000,000th. As of March 2017, over 20 million websites have been created with Jimdo.
It was announced on June 8, 2015 that the American company Spectrum Equity had invested 25 million euros in Jimdo. With this investment Spectrum Equity now holds a share of 26.7 percent of Jimdo GmbH. In October 2016 Jimdo dismissed a quarter of their staff for economic reasons.
The Jimdo head office is in Hamburg, Germany. A United States subsidiary is located in San Francisco. It also has an office located in Tokyo. As of 2015, Jimdo's team consists of 200 people from 15 different countries.
The basic Jimdo service is free; users of the basic service have their website available under a subdomain (for example 'www.yourwebsitename.jimdo.com'). The free service from Jimdo allows the user to build a free basic online store with a maximum of 5 items listed. The two premium services, Jimdo Pro and Jimdo Business, allow users to have their own domain name(s). They also receive additional storage space and no advertisements. Jimdo Pro costs 5 euros per month, and Jimdo Business costs 15 euros per month. As of 2014, there are 8 languages available including: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Dutch and Spanish. The English-language service uses British English. To increase speed performance for their worldwide user base, Jimdo maintains data centers in the US, Germany and Japan.
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