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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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The Netherlands co-invented the Domain Name System - the layer that gave stable names to changing IP addresses. The backbone of the modern internet.
The world's largest internet exchange. The Netherlands became the digital heart of Europe - not by chance, but by building infrastructure others relied on.
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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