News Archive

i3D.net integrates with Idem matchmaker to bring game developers and players top-tier matchmaking, faster queuing, and seamless scalability.

Enhance your multiplayer games with Amazon GameLift Anywhere, combining bare metal and cloud-hosted servers for improved player experience and regional availability without extra backend work.

i3D.net has added 4th Gen AMD EPYC™ CPUs to its infrastructure stack, with marked improvements in processing power and efficiency compared to older generations.

i3D.net has released FairFight version 2, improving upon its existing capacity to counter cheating and toxicity within video games. 

i3D.net is working on building a decentralized cloud infrastructure with a consortium as part of a funded project by the Dutch government.

i3D.net was proud to power the analyst’s desk at the SMITE World Championship Season X and watch the action unfold live in Arlington, Texas.

i3D.net has been nominated for the prestigious FD Gazelle award for the tenth time in its two-decade history.

After leading i3D.net for 21 years, Stijn Koster steps down as Managing Director and continues as chairman of the supervisory board.

i3D.net’s platform has reached 840 million unique users, in line with its goal to reach 1 billion users by 2025.

i3D.net is pleased to introduce a new ping tracker tool to find information about latency on paths and at PoPs.

i3D.net has integrated Ubisoft Hosting Services, adding 10000 servers, two data centers and offices in two new locations as a result of this convergence.

i3D.net has integrated support for Tencent Cloud, into the Game Server Orchestrator of its ONE platform built for game developers.

The team at i3D.net was honored to meet Mayors Aboutaleb and Oskam from Rotterdam and Capelle aan den IJssel at the i3D.net office.

i3D.net has won first place in the FD International Gazellen Awards 2023, winning the top spot out of almost 60 nominees.

i3D.net has been nominated for the FD International Gazellen Awards 2023, with the winner to be announced in April.

i3D.net has changed its look and designed a new logo to represent the company’s evolving identity. This story features how the process was undertaken and what the new logo stands for.

The Unreal Engine 5 SDK of our ONE Game Hosting Platform is now released. This allows game developers to quickly set up game servers while utilizing Anti-DDoS, CDN, and matchmaker allocation flows to build and run their multiplayer games seamlessly.

Rotterdam: Leading Dutch financial newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad (FD) held its award ceremony on Tuesday, 22 November in Amsterdam for the fastest-growing companies in the Netherlands in the 19th edition of its award, and i3D.net was proud to accept 1st prize for the second consecutive year!

i3D.net, one of the leading providers of high-performance hosting and infrastructure services, is celebrating its 20th anniversary today.

Our team designed a brand new world map with regional versions for a better look at the global network, the PoPs and future plans for growth.

i3D.net remains one of the fastest-growing Dutch companies, with a significant scale-up last year.

i3D.net phases out game & voice servers for consumers and instead, doubles down its focus on developers to provide them with the best tools for hosting games and applications on its global low latency platform.

i3D.net and Quad9 today announced their partnership where i3D.net will be supplying Quad9 with servers and network connectivity in several locations throughout Europe to power its DNS security service. The support of i3D.net for Quad9 enables a safer and more stable experience for Quad9 users around the world.

On April 7th 2022, we welcomed 18 girls from a local high school at our Rotterdam data center as part of VHTO’s Girl’s Day! Girl’s Day is an initiative from the VHTO expertise center on Gender Diversity in beta sciences, technology, and IT. During this day, girls all throughout the Netherlands are visiting companies in these fields.

Gamers’ favorite low latency network brings applications and databases closer together. MariaDB Xpand running on i3D.net’s infrastructure enables accelerate databases and transactional workloads for millions of users across the globe.

i3D.net has been placed in 1st place of the FD Gazellen Awards, which celebrates the fastest-growing profitable companies in the Netherlands.

GameBlocks’ proprietary FairFight® system provides Ubisoft subsidiary i3D.net with an even more inclusive ecosystem for Game Publishers on its ONE Game Hosting Platform.

His Majesty The King Willem-Alexander participated in half an hour video-call on January 20th 2021 with i3D.net Founder and Managing Director Stijn Koster. He was joined by 3 other representatives from the industry on the developments in the digital infrastructure.

i3D.net has been selected by the leading Dutch financial newspaper (Financieele Dagblad) as one of the fastest-growing profitable companies in the Netherlands, measures over the past 3 years (2017-2019). This is our seventh nomination.

We’ve launched an all-new and improved website and a new platform replacing our former control panel. Our new site features a clear overview of all our catalog and is a valuable new resource. Our new platform is designed to give our customers more information, flexibility, and control.

Our success is measured in latency. We bring the game closer to the players by building one of the largest gaming networks in the world. In 2020, i3D.net has grown with exponential speed, opening locations around the world. Since founding the company in 2002, i3D.net’s revenue, team size, and scope grow year after year.

Our new Point of Presence in Kyiv, Ukraine, has just gone live.

Direct peering between i3D.net and Etisalat in the UAE to improve video gaming experience.

Owing to the outbreak of the Coronavirus, i3D.net has taken steps to ensure ongoing operations.

Opengear partners with i3D.net to keep hosting networks running worldwide.

i3D.net opens a new PoP in Singapore.

i3D.net core routers have been successfully replaced by Juniper MX10008 routers.

We are proud to announce that we are a finalist for the Piet Heyn Award 2019.

An even better gaming experience is coming your way!

High performance Juniper Networks routing and i3D.net

We are proud to announce that i3D.net is now officially ISO 27001 certified.

Ubisoft acquires i3D.net to strengthen online service and bring best in class experiences to players.

The nomination itself is a crowning achievement of our efforts so far.

Non-disruptive operations and performance, key for service level agreements.

Strengthening our presence in North America

i3D.net values the importance of privacy and data protection

The acquisition of MyInternetServices.com has added over 1200 new servers to the i3D.net platform.

The i3D.net team has worked hard to make sure our clients are not affected.

i3D.net the first foreign peering customer of Angonix, Angola’s Internet Exchange Point.

i3D.net faced application-specific attacks using UDP traffic.