Happy Birthday to us (and all thanks to YOU!) Today .CLUB celebrates 6 years since our launch, and it has been a SUPER Journey! We have made some super memories, visiting with partners, registrants, and friends around the world. We have seen so many super websites and businesses created using a .CLUB domain. Seeing the […]
For those of us in the domain industry, we are fortunate to be part of an online, digital ecosystem that is able to continue to provide our products and services to partners and customers who may be confined to their homes and restricted in their travel. In truth, while sequestered at home, many people may […]
Twice a year we make adjustments to our premium name inventory available at registrars around the world and we just released our latest update. If you’re in the market for a great, SEO friendly, brandable KEYWORD domain this is our best update yet. In order to make certain names available at registrars, we had to […]
We just returned from our annual January pilgrimage to Las Vegas for the last time, as NamesCon has announced that the popular industry event will be relocating to Austin Texas next year. While some of us may miss the glitz and the casinos, the real draw of NamesCon has always been the great opportunity it […]
At the NamesCon conference in Las Vegas, we launched some exciting new features at our Names.club marketplace, including the ability for any domain owner to list their names for sale. While we originally launched Names.club with premium names featuring .CLUB and other new extensions, now we can accept names with any top-level domain, including .COM […]
We’re very pleased to announce some price changes and additions to our Tier premium names available through the registrar channel, including the addition of many high-value names that have never been offered by registrars. We are adding a NEW tier with a suggested retail price of $19,000, containing approximately 117 names. These are names that […]
As we roll in toward the end of 2018, we took a look at our premium name sales for the first half of the year and the historical impact of our Names.club “Easy Payments” financing platform. Q1 & Q2 2018 The registrar channel and our Tiered Premium program continue to thrive with 2,072 premium […]
At the recent SUP-X, The Startup Expo held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, I had the opportunity to give an open workshop session on “Tips for Better Branding your Startup.” With the proliferation of new domain extensions, many of them words with meaning, like .CLUB, .SHOP, .WORK, etc., it is no longer a good idea to […]
At the NamesCon Europe conference (formerly Domaining Europe) in Valencia, Spain, I had the chance to give a keynote presentation focusing on the differences between so-called “brandable” domains, and more SEO friendly “keyword” domains. I stressed that in the current environment, with so many new domain extensions, many with inherent meaning and relevance, it does […]
Have you ever sold a domain name that was just sitting in your registrar account? Maybe it was for that idea you had, but never found the time to develop. Perhaps it was for a business or website you once ran and then let go by the wayside. Then one day, out of the blue, […]
Today our registrar partner Namecheap announced the launch of Namecheap Easy Payments, powered by Names.club. This is a great milestone in the expansion of our Names.club platform, which is open to other registries, and now registrars who want to offer their premium name customers an option to finance great premium names with 60-month Easy Payments. […]
Online shopping is eating the world! The ease and convenience of getting just about anything you can imagine delivered to your door in a matter of days (or even hours) is very appealing to the vast majority of shoppers. Within the growing e-commerce ecosystem, there has been tremendous growth in traffic to subscription services. According […]