Colin Campbell (entrepreneur)

Colin Campbell
.CLUB Domains LLC's CEO and founder Colin Campbell, in April 2015
Born Canada
Nationality Canadian
Education University of Toronto at Scarborough
Occupation Chairman and CEO of .club Domains LLC
Chairman and Founder of EntrepreneurWiki
Chairman of Sharkfin Networks
Co-owner of Brisk Mobile
Website
colincampbell.ceo
colincampbell.ca
get.club

Colin Campbell is a Canadian entrepreneur who has co-founded several Internet and technology start up companies. Campbell is the current founder, chair, and CEO of the domain name registry, .CLUB DOMAINS LLC, which serves the new Generic top-level domain (gTLD) string .club, which is the most-registered TLD[1] among the 500+ delegated strings[2] under ICANN’s new gTLD program. As of April 2015, 11 months after .club became available for general sale, over 200,000 domains have been registered.[3][4]

Campbell began his career in 1993 in the Internet space, and throughout the last 20 years has built companies with partners Dirk Bhagat, Peter LaMantia, and William Campbell, such as Tucows, Internet Direct, Hostopia, GeeksForLess, and EntrepreneurWiki.[5][6] Campbell formed .CLUB DOMAINS LLC in late 2011 with idea that the .club domain extension would offer unity for those with passions, rather than commercial interests.[7]

Background

Colin Campbell received a B.A. degree in Commerce from the University of Toronto at Scarborough in 1992.

Colin Campbell is the Founding Director of the Canadian Internet Registry Association (CIRA) and served on its board from June 2001 to January 2003, and was the former Director of the Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP).[8] He served as the Chief Operating Officer of Internet Direct from 1994 to 1999, he co-founded and served as the COO of Tucows Interactive from 1997 to 1999, and co-founded and served as President and COO of Hostopia from 2001 until 2008.[9] He acted as Hostopia's CEO until 2011, guiding it through its sale to Deluxe in 2008. The sale was a $124 million deal.[10]

Current

As a member of a member of the Entrepreneurs Organization (EO), Colin Campbell was invited to be a guest speaker at MIT on the topic of entrepreneurship.[11] Campbell received $100,000 dollars in investments funds that went toward the funding of .CLUB, as a result of Campbell reaching out to an investor who attended Campbell’s speech at MIT.[12]

His companies earned several awards and recognition including the 1997 Profit magazine's 7th fastest growing company in Canada, 2nd fastest growing company in Canada in 1998, #1 fastest growing company and Inc. magazine's top 500 fastest growing companies, both received in 2005.[13]

Campbell is currently the CEO of both .CLUB and EntrepreneurWiki.

References

  1. ↑ Andrew Allemann. ".Club raising more money, valued at $25.4 million". Domainnamewire.com. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
  2. ↑ "Program Statistics". Icann.org. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
  3. ↑ ".CLUB - New gTLD - Top Level Domain Statistics". Namestat.org. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
  4. ↑ ".Club Tops 200K Domains, Is GoDaddy's #1 Selling New Domain Extension". TheDomains.com. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
  5. ↑ "Sedari Partners with Digital Archery Experts to Deliver a Batch One Bullseye". Circleid.com. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
  6. ↑ "MST Group Testimonials". Mstgroup.ca. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
  7. ↑ Rick Spence (17 November 2014). "From Glee.club to Fight.club: Why one word may be worth millions on the Internet". Financial Post. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
  8. ↑ "Colin Campbell and Jeff Sass of .CLUB Interview". Domainsherpa.com. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
  9. ↑ "Colin Campbell biography". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
  10. ↑
  11. ↑ "Entrepreneurs' Organization - Press Release - The Entrepreneurs’ Organization Announces Partnership with EntrepreneurWiki". Eonetwork.org. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
  12. ↑ "How Colin Campbell Raised 7 Million Dollars in 30 Days". Startupbeat.com. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
  13. ↑ ":: ICANN DIGITAL ARCHERY EXPERTS ::". Digitalarcheryexperts.com. Retrieved 2015-04-25.