# Anyone know what "Strato Rechenzentrum" means?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 8, 2011, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-strato-rechenzentrum-means/595615 "2011-09-08T14:32:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![paperbackwriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@paperbackwriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paperbackwriter)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-strato-rechenzentrum-means/595615/1 "2011-09-08T14:32:43Z")

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All I know is that it seems to be a company from Berlin, but it kind of looks like a mixture of Italian and German to me.

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**Author:** ![Mops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mops/32/16494_2.png) [@Mops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mops)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-strato-rechenzentrum-means/595615/2 "2011-09-08T14:36:02Z")

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[Strato](http://www.strato.de) is a German web hosting provider (one of the largest of the country). _Rechenzentrum_ means computing center/server farm etc… In what context did the name crop up?

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**Author:** ![paperbackwriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@paperbackwriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paperbackwriter)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-strato-rechenzentrum-means/595615/3 "2011-09-08T14:38:52Z")

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Searching online uses of a term as unregistered trademarks. Thanks. That was fast.