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 […]
One of the fringe benefits of being the registry for .CLUB domain names is the opportunities we have to meet truly creative and inspired entrepreneurs. Ry Russell, founder and CEO of apparel startup MANBRANDS.CLUB is one of them. He’s a man on a mission to help men dress sharp. A young serial entrepreneur, Ry was […]
We love hackathons, and the LAUNCH HACKATHON is one of the biggest and best there is. Last year at Launch we had 53 teams use a .CLUB domain for their Hackathon project. This year, even with more domain name choices available, we had 79 of the official submissions use a .CLUB domain name and over […]
Running a top level domain registry is not really as glamorous as it sounds… It is a LOT of work. This is particularly complicated when your domain extension is a word that is widely used and recognized throughout the world, like “Club” is. That’s why we promote the hashtag #ClubIsEverywhere… it is an acknowledgement that […]
Coming off of the record month of November, in December .CLUB registrations and premium name sales continued to be very strong, closing out the year far ahead of our internal projections. On December 16th we released 13,000 new premium names to the registrar channel, with many priced at $100 or lower, and these names proved […]
Hot off the success of two consecutive domain name auctions held in November, and as a follow up to last year’s record-breaking sale of Wine.club for $140,000 at the inaugural RightOfTheDot/NamesCon Domain Name auction, we are very happy to announce that nine category killer .CLUB premium names will be offered at the upcoming NamesCon/RightOfTheDot/NameJet Live […]
Today (Monday, September 14, 2015) there are some great .CLUB names ready to go to Auction on SnapNames. To participate you need to get your bid in by Midnight ET tonight (9pm PT). As you may have heard, numbers are the hot domain names these days, driven by strong demand from domain investors in China. […]
There are thousands of great dropping .CLUB domain names now available on SnapNames for a minimum bid of $69. If there are more than one bid, the names go into an exclusive SnapNames auction. RIGHT NOW the following 3 character names have more than one bid and will be going into auction TONIGHT, Monday August […]
As you know, .CLUB is all about passion and community, so we love when our partners get passionate about marketing .CLUB and turn on the creativity… Domain.com and Ryan Connolly, the uber creative host of the popular Film Riot podcast joined forces for a tour du force ad for .CLUB domain names. Have fun watching […]
A while back we attended WordCamp Miami where we met two young developers with a great idea for a new game. After talking with them, they said it makes perfect sense for their team to use a .CLUB Domain Name which they did… and now their site is up and running. The name for Space […]
As the Registry for .CLUB we don’t offer our names directly. Instead .CLUB names are available for registration through our 118 registrar partners around the world. This registrar channel is very important to us, and we always do our best to give our registrars what they want. One thing they have asked us for is […]
One year ago today .CLUB went live! It has been a great and busy year and we have many accomplishments to be proud of. That said, we could not have done it without all of our supporters: our registrar partners, our investors, our friends and families, and most of all, our registrants – the individuals […]