Program promotes .Club while also generating premium domain sales revenue.
.Club’s new Startup.club program is ingenious, and something that other new top level domains should consider emulating.
Here’s startup.club in a nutshell: get a premium .club domain name but pay it off over 10 years, and .Club will also give you PR and marketing support.
None of the features of Startup.club are new. TLDs have offered payment plans on premium domains for a while (e.g. sex.xxx), others have put marketing muscle and PR behind their registrants (e.g. .co), and plenty have screened for people that will actually use their domains (e.g. RFPs for single letter domains, founders’ programs).
What is new and interesting is how the company packaged its offering. It’s a formal program, neatly packaged and available for anyone that has a good plan for a .club domain name.
Startup.club will allow .Club to make headline-grabbing announcements, such as Coffee.club selling for $100,000 (when the first year commitment is only $10,000). It will also help the company find end users and entrepreneurs that will actually use its domain names. The company will, of course, lend its marketing and PR support to people that have already purchased good .club domain names. If .Club already wants to highlight how people are using its domains, why not market it as a perk?
I think .Club could go a step further through partnerships with subscription club platforms and club management software, essentially offering a business-in-a-box on top of .club domain names.
Colin Campbell says
Andrew,
I think you should take my job. The last paragraph is bang on. It’s what we need to do to really make it easy to get companies to easily launch a .CLUB.
Colin.club
Andrew Allemann says
The club management software is a bigger market in terms of registrations, but you can’t get great visibility from a successful of-the-month club.
Bob says
Yes, I have already enrolled my domain Rooms.club for this excellent program.
Kassey says
A full-service (domain name + easy website building/management service) deal is the future. This is particularly important for small business owners who just want a website up and running immediately so he can focus on the business aspects.