STG Interactive S.A. and its role

Frogans technology is developed by STG Interactive S.A, a company based in Paris, France, founded in 1999.

STG Interactive S.A is committed to a long-term vision for a simplified and secured Internet that remains open to all and gives everyone the power to publish their content everywhere.

A ten-year effort has already been invested in R&D and industrialization with the goal of developing a standard cross-platform publishing and addressing technology, and for making it available on all connected devices: computers, mobile devices, game consoles, televisions, etc.

STG Interactive S.A has been financed on a regular basis, by its founders and individual investors who share their vision, for a total amount of USD 16.5 million (as of June, 2009).

STG Interactive's future revenues, which will permit the continued development and deployment of Frogans technology, will come from:

frogans address registration and renewal fees on the main frogans network
license fees for dedicated frogans networks

For providing reliable registration and addressing services worldwide, STG Interactive S.A is a Local Internet Registry at RIPE NCC, and is connected to the Internet backbone with two leading US operators (Level 3 Communications and Verizon Business).

Coordinate the evolution of FSDL and FNSL

STG Interactive S.A. coordinates the evolution of FSDL and FNSL with the feedback from designers and developers and in accordance with the Internet community's needs.

Thanks to the help of a number of designers, developers and online publishers since 1999, FSDL and FNSL are today specified with the precision of an Internet standard (in the format of an RFC from IETF).

As with all Internet standards, the use of FSDL and FNSL is free of charge (perpetual licenses).

Ensure the development of Frogans Player

STG Interactive S.A. currently insures the development of Frogans Player for desktop devices (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux) and mobile devices (Windows Mobile, iPhone, Symbian and Android).

The objective is to make Frogans Player available on all devices connected to the Internet: computers, PDAs, mobile phones, game consoles, televisions, etc.

Frogans Player will always be free of charge and without registration for end-users.

Operate the main frogans network

STG Interactive S.A. operates the main frogans network technically and administratively by providing worldwide frogans address registrations and lookup services on behalf of the Internet community.

Each time an end-user chooses to open a frogans site on the main frogans network, Frogans Player sends a request containing the address of this frogans to a specialized server, which is called a FNS server. The response of the FNS server contains technical information about the frogans site, such as its location on the Internet and its encoding.

From a technical perspective:

STG Interactive S.A. must finance and operate a scalable infrastructure of FNS servers
these FNS servers are connected to the Internet backbone
these FNS servers are installed and monitored by STG Interactive S.A.

From an administrative perspective:

STG Interactive S.A. supplies addressing services for a fixed price of US$ 12 per year that is not based on the traffic on the frogans site nor on the content in the frogans site
frogans addresses are registered on a first come, first served basis by online publishers throughout the world, both individuals and organizations

Supply licenses for dedicated frogans networks

STG Interactive S.A. supplies annual licenses for dedicated frogans networks.

The creation of a dedicated frogans network is destined to:

small to large businesses for publishing frogans sites on their intranets; pricing is likely to be based on the number of frogans sites published
ISPs and mobile carriers for offering dedicated services using frogans sites on their own networks; pricing will be derived from the size of their customer and client base
major websites for creating branded innovative killer apps for their communities using frogans sites; pricing will be determined on a case-by-case basis according to their business model

Benefits for operating dedicated frogans networks include:

complete customization of frogans addresses
frogans address confidentiality
control in the quality of service for frogans address lookups

For more information, please send an e-mail to: license-sales@frogans.com