Welcome to our feature highlighting the numerous Colorado tech companies that make cool stuff. These little snippets are intended for readers to explore the technology being made right here. One company at a time, of course.
Name.com
It’s difficult to show what a domain registrar does so Name.com sent us its mascot, the Bearglecorn. Umm… what? “It started as a joke,” shared Allison Chowdhury, with Name.com. “But then we added it to our 404 page and used him in a blog post and our customers really loved it! Now we put him on a lot of our promotional items and have actually started the process of trademarking him.”
There are a ton of companies that register domain names but how many can call Denver home? That’s , which was founded in Denver in 2003 by Bill Mushkin (he’s now at ). The registrar has plowed right into registering quirky new gTLDs, or generic top-level domains. At its site, customers can pick from web domains that end with .ninja, .news and .lol (prices vary). Besides new dot options, the company has seen other changes in recent years. In 2013, . And later that year, Demand into a new company called Rightside, a public company. According to Rightside, Name.com’s revenues , ended Dec. 31, 2015, from the prior year. Of that, “over half of that growth” from these new gTLDs.
Headquarters: 414 14th Street #200 in Denver
Founded: 2003
Founders: Bill Mushkin
Employees: 32
New news: Name.com has teamed with Galvanize to offer free coding and website classes. The next Denver event, “Learn Git and Github” is March 10. Details at
Contact: 720-249-2374 or solutions@name.com
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