Smuggler.xyz – Register.com customer – (United States)
Accomplished creative businesses are establishing their online homes on .xyz domains. Creative agency ArtsandLetters.xyz works with a client roster of global brands like Google and ESPN. FOX Entertainment’s web3 studio BCL.xyz connects creators and communities with blockchain technology. Branding agency LetterA.xyz works with world-renowned brands like Casetify, Ann Taylor, and Kate Spade. In this week’s #WebsiteWednesday, we’ll introduce you to a successful production company developing media content across commercial, film, TV, and theater: Smuggler.xyz.
Smuggler.xyz is the online home of Smuggler, a production company based in Los Angeles, New York, and London. Founded in 2002 by film producers Patrick Milling-Smith and Brian Carmody, Smuggler produces a wide range of content, including commercials, theater, music videos, films, and television shows. Some of their most notable work includes producing commercials for brands like Apple, Squarespace, and Smartwater1, and directing music videos for artists such as Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Beyoncé, and Jay-Z.2 They also produced the Broadway production of Macbeth starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga. The prestigious company has won numerous awards for its work, including three Emmy Awards3 and the Palme d’Or, the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival.4 In February 2023, global talent agency UTA partner Mark Subias joined Smuggler as a Managing Partner. Mark will be developing and producing projects across theater, TV, and film for the company.5
The production company has produced some incredibly popular and widely viewed media content. Among a substantial portfolio you can review on Smuggler.xyz, the company is responsible for producing the memorable Squarespace: Who is johnmalkovich.com? commercial. Smuggler partnered with John Malkovich and Squarespace for the spot, in which the actor and the website platform gave viewers a glimpse of John Malkovich’s fight for a custom domain for his debut clothing line’s website. The spot went on to win the 2017 Emmy Award for Outstanding Commercial. Smuggler also worked with Apple on the short film titled Escape from the Office, featuring four office workers daydreaming about starting a company of their own. The foursome first require a product that they can successfully take to market, and devise a plan to develop a reusable reinforced bag. Throughout the film, you can see the workers conduct meetings, hire a teenage software developer, and move into their new garage office space. As the company grows, their old boss comes crawling back and tries to buy the successful startup. The spot was among the work that helped Smuggler earn the coveted Palme d’Or award at Cannes.
If you click over to the Directors page on Smuggler.xyz, you can toggle between Commercials and Music Videos to see a wide range of talented directors involved in Smuggler’s productions.
Influential director and Academy Award-nominee Todd Field began at Smuggler with a trilogy of commercials for Captain Morgan, based on the real-life adventures of Captain Henry Morgan. Todd recently directed 2022’s Tár, a film that earned six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Original Screenplay, and Best Director.
Filmmaker Fiona Jane Burgess pivoted from designing posters and tour visuals to directing campaigns for advertising agencies, global fashion houses, and music videos. Fiona recently directed the Mercedes-Benz spot “One of Many,” created by the brand in honor of International Women’s Day 2023. She is also known for her work on Christina Aguilera’s 20th-anniversary music video for the song “Beautiful.”
The company recently upgraded their domain from SmugglerSite.com to the shorter and more memorable Smuggler.xyz. We are inspired by the innovation and creativity demonstrated by Smuggler.xyz and look forward to more entertaining content. You can learn more about the production company and view more of their work by following them on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn, and by visiting Smuggler.xyz.
1. https://musebycl.io/film-tv/pete-davidson-elevates-his-hydration-game-smartwater
2. https://smuggler.xyz/europe/commercials/ricky-saiz/the-carters-apesht
3. https://www.emmys.com/bios/smuggler
4. https://www.shootonline.com/news/smuggler-wins-palme-dor-cannes-lions
5. https://deadline.com/2023/02/mark-subias-uta-agency-smuggler-production-company-1235263380/
Tribes.xyz – Google Domains customer – (United States)
Web3-focused developers are using .xyz domains to introduce innovative decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms and cryptocurrency tools. Cryptocurrency wallet Monolith.xyz strives to make it easier for users to buy, store, and spend their cryptocurrency in the real world. Full-stack DeFi aggregator ADD.xyz aims to deliver a variety of decentralized finance products and related solutions all on one platform. Ethereum-based cryptocurrency wallet Argent.xyz combines a simple interface with leading security features in an effort to offer a better overall experience for crypto traders. In this week’s #BlockchainThursday, we’ll introduce you to an app designed to combine web3-native social messaging with the utility of a crypto wallet: Tribes.xyz.
Tribes.xyz is the online home of Tribes Protocol, a tech startup developing a decentralized communication protocol and a crypto-native app for crypto communities, creators, and DAOs. The Tribes app is a web3-native messaging and group wallet app designed to help users co-own digital assets. In January 2023, the startup raised $3.3 million in a pre-seed funding round led by San Francisco-based venture capital fund Kindred Ventures and South Park Commons, an investment community founded by Ruchi Sanghvi, Facebook’s first female engineer.1
The Tribes social wallets, known as “co-wallets” are digital wallets that allow people to co-own and manage digital assets while communicating directly through the wallet itself. This means that people can use their co-wallet to talk to each other and make decisions together without having to use an outside messaging service such as Discord or Twitter. The Tribes.xyz co-wallets have many potential use cases, including for decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and for family members who wish to co-own property. Tribes.xyz’s wallets can send, receive, and hold all kinds of digital assets, such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs), memberships, and currencies. To make sure that everyone is on the same page, any sending or spending of assets from the group requires a group vote for approval.
Founder, CEO, and former Coinbase engineer Hish Bouabdallah selected a domain that felt fitting for their unique product. As he told us, “Tribes is a web3 messenger for everything from DMs to DAOs, and because we’re crypto-native, we’re a bit different than the apps people are used to. So when we thought about where we’d like our online home to be, we wanted a domain that’d help tell the story that we’re something new, something different. XYZ felt just right for that.” We are inspired by the innovation demonstrated by Hish, and look forward to more developments. The app is currently in alpha and available in the Apple and Google app stores. You can learn more by following along on Twitter and by visiting Tribes.xyz.
1. https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/01/23/web3-social-wallet-tribes-launches-with-33m-in-funding/
LetterA.xyz – Squarespace customer – (United States)
Successful and accomplished creative agencies develop their online homes on .xyz domains. Media company Offbeat.xyz creates media for the digital generation, with clients such as McDonald’s and Netflix. Creative collective Wave.xyz offers promotional and branding services to non-profit organizations including Alzheimer’s Association and NOVA Hope for Haiti. Creative agency ArtsandLetters.xyz works with a client roster of world-renowned brands like Google and ESPN. In this week’s #WebsiteWednesday, we’ll introduce you to a branding agency with a client roster of world-renowned brands like Casetify, Ann Taylor, and Kate Spade: LetterA.xyz.
LetterA.xyz is the online home of Letter A, a Portland-based branding agency launched in 2017. The agency was founded by Allison Henry Aver, the former Creative Director of Ann Inc. (the parent company of women’s apparel brand Ann Taylor). Allison has over 20 years of experience leading creative teams in fashion and beauty. She played an integral role in the success of several well-known brands, including Vogue.com and the haircare brand Bumble and bumble. In their first year, LetterA.xyz landed clients from various categories, including tech (Casetify), children’s apparel (Tea Collection), and confections (Spring & Mulberry). LetterA.xyz‘s work for Spring & Mulberry was honored as one of the Top 100 designs of 2022 by the global package design community Dieline in December 2022.1
You can hover over the “Work” menu option to learn more about LetterA.xyz’s projects. For Kate Spade Saturday, a casual lifestyle brand launched by Kate Spade New York, LetterA.xyz spoke with young women who wanted to have fun with fashion to help them develop the brand from the ground up. The agency helped children’s apparel brand Tea Collection refresh their identity developed over twenty years ago with a brand new voice. You can also check out their work for women’s apparel brand Ann Taylor, including the evolution from retailer to lifestyle brand and the elevation of the label’s point of view around fashion and style.
LetterA.xyz features a Contact page, where the agency shares their address, social media handles, and a means to send them an email. This is a great resource that makes it simple for potential clients to reach out and make contact. Allison believes the .xyz domain is a great option for her agency. As she told us, “The reason we chose .xyz? Because we work with clients from A to Z!” We look forward to more exciting brand identities to be developed by Allison and her team. You can learn more and view additional examples of their work by following the agency on Instagram and LinkedIn, and by visiting LetterA.xyz.
1. https://www.instagram.com/p/CmvI2qBupEF/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D
Registrar InterNetX and domain name marketplace Sedo have recently released the Global Domain Report 20235, a yearly in-depth analysis of the domain industry. This report provides insights into the latest developments, tendencies, and trends of the domain industry, and it’s exciting to see that XYZ domains are becoming increasingly prevalent in the reports each year.
Here are some of the top .xyz mentions in the 2023 Global Domains Report:
“Your domain name is your identity on the web, and your domain extension has long been the category of that identity. Our product isn’t primarily a commercial entity or an organization, but rather a digital tool for the internet, and a .xyz domain is the only domain that we feel embodies that. We chose a .xyz domain because it’s clean, memorable, and feels very hacker-esque, and those are the exact types of feelings we want to invoke with our product.”
– John Iadeluca, CEO, Ra.xyz
Discover a curated selection of available .xyz domains with our .xyz premiums, .xyz numbers, and CNOX search tools.
* Premium XYZ Registry domains refer to premium domains for extensions with standard and premium domains, and XYZ’s premium namespaces such as .Cars, .Car, .Auto, .Theatre, .Storage, .Security, .Protection, and .Hosting.***
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(not ranked)
| Trilogy.xyz** | UU.Game |
| University.xyz | Ageless.Beauty |
| CAG.xyz** | BFF.Mom |
| 127.xyz** | Ord.Pics |
| Save.xyz | Law.Monster** |
| 3r.xyz | Random.LOL |
| Eden.Homes | Bad.Diet |
| VC.Quest** | S3.Storage |
| Resilient.Yachts** | Eviden.Protection |
| Exotic.Rent | 91.Car |
| 3o.xyz** | Ice.LOL | Pin.Storage |
| 135.xyz | Neighbors.LOL | Scrap.Car |
| Fada.xyz** | Shared.Hosting | Blue.Car |
| Clear.Car | CJ2.Hosting | Vena.Security |
| Mamo.xyz** | Just.Pics | Midnight.Security |
| w2.xyz | 899.Mom | Risk.Security |
| Voting.xyz | lC.Homes** | FMV.Auto |
| AKU.Audio | Complete.Homes** | MN.Auto |
| Plz.LOL | Future.Boats** | Fixed.Cars |
| 402.LOL | Fish.Monster** | NewJersey.Cars |
(source: Namebio.com)
| Total dollar value: $284,433 |
| Average price: $6,051.77 |
| Low Price: $100 |
| High Price: $74,888 |
| Maximum SLD characters: 13 |
| 3L – 12 (25.53%) 4L – 7 (14.89%) |
(Ranked by volume)
(Price listed is MSRP)
(source: Namebio.com)
(source: Internal Data)
1. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230214005206/en/Orb-Labs-Raises-4.5M-Seed-Led-by-Bain-Capital-Crypto-to-Solve-Blockchain-Interoperability-Once-and-for-All
2. https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/14/monad-labs-raises-19m-to-grow-its-smart-contract-platform-and-improve-the-ethereum-space/
3. https://www.finsmes.com/2023/02/brale-raises-11-1m-in-funding.html
4. https://www.theblock.co/post/212613/polychain-leads-zk-chip-startup-cysics-6-million-raise
5. https://www.internetx.com/en/global-domain-report/
Cohort.xyz – Google Domains customer – (France)
Developers are using .xyz domains to disrupt industries by leveraging the power of blockchain technology. Web3 startup MetaFlyers.xyz strives to disrupt the loyalty program industry with a decentralized rewards marketplace. Forbes-featured artist Brandon Tory’s Formless.xyz leverages blockchain technology to change the way music and other digital content is valued and distributed. Web3 video platform Shibuya.xyz aims to disrupt the Hollywood studio system of film distribution. In this week’s #BlockchainThursday, we’ll introduce you to an NFT platform that aims to revolutionize the way brands interact with and retain their customers: Cohort.xyz.
Cohort.xyz is the online home of Cohort, a B2B (business-to-business) SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) platform that aims to leverage NFTs to revolutionize the way brands interact with and retain their customers. B2B SaaS refers to software that is designed and delivered specifically for use by businesses and is typically sold on a subscription basis. In this case, Cohort.xyz strives to provide brands with an innovative platform that allows them to engage with customers in new and exciting ways through the use of NFTs. The platform offers a unique approach to marketing, with a goal of demonstrating the practical benefits of web3 technology. Cohort.xyz recently announced a €3.2 million (approximately $3.4 million USD) seed funding round led by venture capital firm IRIS, with participation from Kima Ventures, web3 startup studio 3founders, and more. This funding will help the company to accelerate the expansion of its sales, grow its product and tech teams, and hire new team members.1
The platform claims that brands can now offer their customers exclusive experiences, limited edition products, and VIP services. This can be valuable in today’s digital world where customers expect more from the brands they choose to interact with. Cohort.xyz emphasizes that users own their data and assets, providing them with control over the sharing of their data with brands and businesses through built-in privacy features.
Cohort.xyz is co-founded by Séraphie de Tracy, former Chief Operating Officer of FinTech startup Stratumn, and Nathan Barraillé, founder of AI-powered insurance platform Tint. The platform has signed more than 15 clients in France and the US, including women’s lingerie brand Etam, women’s shoe brand Socque Paris, and men’s skincare brand L’Atelier Shelter. As co-founder and CEO Séraphie shared in the press, “a new era of customer engagement is emerging. Customers are demanding more from brands and want greater control over their data. With Cohort.xyz, brands can offer a new class of hybrid products, provide exclusive memberships, collaborate across brands, and create social dynamics around their digital assets, all while helping with both acquisition and retention. Marketing, as we know it, is being completely reinvented for the better.”
We are inspired by Cohort.xyz’s aim to leverage NFTs to offer a new and innovative approach to customer engagement. We look forward to seeing the platform grow and bring the benefits of web3 technology to the masses. You can learn more by following the platform on LinkedIn and by visiting Cohort.xyz.
1. https://tech.eu/2023/02/01/offering-brands-an-nft-based-turnkey-loyalty-solution-cohort-raises-eur32-million/
