Jimdo
German web hosting service
Jimdo GmbH is a German website builder privately held and headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, with offices in Munich and Tokyo. The software is aimed at small and medium businesses, providing tools to create e-commerce websites, gather analytics and automate SEO.
History
Jimdo was founded in 2007 by Matthias Henze, Christian Springub and Fridtjof Detzner.
While they were still in high school, Springub and Detzner started their first internet agency, designing websites for small businesses in Cuxhaven, Germany. When Matthias Henze joined the company in 2004, the team decided to build their own content management system, which would go on to become Jimdo in 2007.
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 ten percent discount to users who moved from GeoCities and Google Page Creator to Jimdo.
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.
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