With events moving online and many of us suffering from “Zoom Fatigue” the .CLUB team wanted to do something fun and different to socialize with our registrar partners around the NamesCon.Online conference. Normally, we’d be wining and dining together in person, but alas, in 2020 that is not to be. And we didn’t want to […]
Q1 & Q2 – 2020 .CLUB PREMIUM NAME SALES REPORT The first half of 2020 has presented immense challenges to individuals and businesses everywhere as together we face the impact of a global pandemic. While many industries have seen a resulting downturn in sales, the domain industry in general has not been hit as hard […]
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, […]