NameSilo
| Type: | Privately Held |
| Industry: | Registrar |
| Country: | USA |
| Products: | Domain Names |
| Website: | NameSilo.com |
| Twitter: |  @namesilo
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About
NameSilo is an ICANN-accredited domain Registrar and web hosting company headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona that was launched in 2010. It is owned by NameSilo Technologies Corp., which is listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange (an alternative stock exchange for micro-cap and emerging companies). NameSilo provides DNS domains, web hosting, email services, SSL certificates, and other website products, they also provide aftermarket services through marketplace and drop-catching platforms.
They are known for being the cheapest registrar, they focus on domains and nothing else. They ensure not to incur the expensive overhead associated with the infrastructure. Their main objective is: to provide customers with a low-cost solution for their website needs without compromising on the quality of our platforms, features, and support.
History
NameSilo LLC was initially founded in 2010 by a trio of entrepreneurs. They built up the platform from scratch and got it accredited with ICANN. The team saw their opportunity in building a business focused on low-cost domains with lots of value-added features (such as free WHOIS privacy, domain parking, e-mail, and great support) without overcharging customers.
Company Growth
In 2015 they launched a low-commission marketplace, allowing customers to buy and sell NameSilo domains. This marked a key milestone in the expansion of their services. By mid-2017, NameSilo reached one million active domains under management, which placed NameSilo in the top 1% of the ICANN accredited registrar around the world.
In early 2018, Brisio Innovations (who later renamed NameSilo Technologies Corp) acquired NameSilo LLC to help grow the business faster. As part of the deal, a new team came in, including Kristaps Ronka (CEO). By late 2018, they crossed 2 million active domains under management, and less than a year after that, they surpassed 3 million active domains. In late 2018, NameSilo also acquired NamePal, which was an important milestone for the business, after this acquisition, they expanded the capabilities to include drop-catching and hosting.
In early 2019 the product team has been hard at work adding new features like website builder, SSL, email, and by late 2019 they included premium DNS and logo makers.
Today they have +3.5 million active domains and also 2 new platforms, NameLot for domain sales - brokerage platform and their backorder platform, Catch.club
Business
NameSilo – main business, domain registrar
NameLot - domain sales/brokerage platform
Catch.club – backorder platform
NameSilo main customers
- Domainers (biggest customer): They try to sell their domains eg: greatname.com
- SMB (small business) / start-up’s
- Resellers
- Industry professionals
Products and services
Domain Registration – cheapest domain name registration transfer and renewal
Web Hosting – 3 hosting packages to choose up to customer preference
SSL – different SSL certificates options along with some security services
Resellers – Affiliate and reseller plans
Logo Maker – New logo maker to your business
Email forwarding - directing email sent to one email address to a different email address
Domain forwarding: allows automatically direct your domain visitors to a different location on the web
4. NameSilo Popular TLD
The growth of the new gTLDs over the past few years has caused everyone to try and anticipate the next big thing so as to get in on the ground floor. To help with this analysis, NameSilo started publishing monthly reports on their registration data which can be found on the NameSilo blog site. These reports include data on the top sold TLDs and top growing TLDs vs the previous month. The most popular domain extensions for their customers over the past year have been .COM (still the leader) followed by .XYZ, .TOP, .BUZZ and .NET.
5. NameSilo DNS management
The DNS management option we are offering allows the domain owners to manage their DNS records by specifying the servers where their hosts will be. It includes several like email and domain forwarding, checking domain DNS history, managing portfolio, managing sub-accounts if the owner of the account wants to share the account access with other people to manage the domain and hosting, domain parking, Locking/Unlocking domains, and get EPP code for transfers.