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RELAY launches as the identity layer for digital communication
1 July 2026
English Nederlands
About RELAY

What is RELAY?

RELAY is a new infrastructure layer for digital communication - identity-driven, user-controlled, and channel-agnostic. Every person, organisation, and AI agent on the planet receives a persistent relay address (name.relay) as a universal communication endpoint. The sender knows only the identity; the recipient controls how, where, and by whom messages are delivered - regardless of channel, language, or geography.

RELAY decouples communication identity from the underlying channel. A relay address is not an inbox, a messaging app, or a platform - it is an identity and routing layer that sits above all existing channels, making them interoperable without requiring any of them to change.

RELAY is currently in early access. The company is incorporated under SynergyPeak & Company (KvK 92665241) and is based in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

RELAY is a communication infrastructure layer that gives every person, organisation, and AI agent on the planet a persistent relay address (name.relay) as a universal communication endpoint. The sender knows only the identity; the recipient controls routing across channels - regardless of channel, language, or geography. RELAY is identity-driven, user-controlled, and channel-agnostic - a new layer in digital communication that decouples identity from channel. Based in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Early access at useyourrelay.com.

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Key facts

RELAY at a glance

Founded
2026, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Stage
Early access - building the global standard for communication identity
Address format
name.relay
Founder & CEO
Jasper van Berkel
Website
useyourrelay.com
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Context

The Netherlands has done this before.

1983
DNS
Piet Beertema, CWI Amsterdam

The Netherlands co-invented the Domain Name System - the layer that gave stable names to changing IP addresses. The backbone of the modern internet.

1994
AMS-IX
Amsterdam Internet Exchange

The world's largest internet exchange. The Netherlands became the digital heart of Europe - not by chance, but by building infrastructure others relied on.

2026
RELAY
Utrecht, the Netherlands

The next abstraction layer - above the channels. One persistent address for every person, every organisation, every AI agent. Built in the Netherlands.

Three decades of building the layers the world communicates on. RELAY is the next one.

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