Colin Campbell (entrepreneur)
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Colin C. Campbell | |
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 Colin C. Campbell in May 2015 | |
| Education | University of Toronto |
| Occupations | 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]