Colin C. Campbell | |
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 Colin C. Campbell in May 2015 | |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | University of Toronto |
| Occupation(s) | Cofounder– Internet Direct, Hostopia, Tucows, .Club Domains, Paw.com, Startup.club |
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Colin C. Campbell is a Canadian entrepreneur and author who has co-founded several Internet and technology startup companies, including Internet Direct, Tucows, Hostopia, [1] Paw.com, GeeksforLess.com, .Club Domains LLC, the operator of .club, and Startup Club.
Campbell has co-founded several Internet and technology companies, including Internet Direct, the domain registrar Tucows, and Hostopia, a website hosting and service provider sold to Deluxe. [2] [3] Campbell is a founding member of .CA, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) and served on its board of directors from June 2001 to January 2003. [4]
Campbell was the founder and CEO of the domain name registry .Club Domains LLC, which operates the new generic top-level domain (gTLD) string .club. [5] [6] and sold the company to GoDaddy Registry in 2021. He formed .Club Domains with idea that the .club domain extension could appeal to commercial and social uses. [3] After being invited to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a guest speaker on the topic of entrepreneurship, Campbell received $100,000 in investments funding for .club from an investor who witnessed his speech. [7] In May 2015, Campbell was invited to give the keynote speech on entrepreneurship in China at Solbridge International School of Business at the Beijing Foreign Studies University. [8]
In 2023, Forbes Books published Cambell's book Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat. [9]
The book earned a 2024 Silver International Book Publishers Award [10] , 2024 Best New NonFiction at International Book Awards [11] , and won in the Business: Entrepreneurship & Small Business category at the American Legacy Book Awards 2024 [12] .
Originally from Toronto, Campbell graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts in Commerce; he later moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States. [3] His work has been recognized by Profit magazine, which named his companies the seventh-, third– and first-fastest growing in Canada in 1997 [13] , 1998 [14] , and 2005 [15] , respectively.
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