Capital.xyz – Namecheap customer – (United States)
Forward-thinking businesses have been embracing .xyz domains and upgrading to domain names that signal innovation and expansion. The parent company of popular services such as Cash App and Square credit card reader rebranded to Block.xyz to indicate their growth. Investment firm Dragonfly upgraded to Dragonfly.xyz to signal a global presence and deep technical expertise. Collectible trading card platform Alt upgraded to Alt.xyz as they expanded their alternative assets platform to include options for buying, selling, storing, and borrowing against valuable trading cards. In this week’s #WebsiteWednesday, we’ll introduce you to a newly rebranded financial technology company with a focus on expanded banking services: Capital.xyz.
Capital.xyz is the online home of newly named fintech company Capital (previously Party Round). Before rebranding to the more memorable Capital.xyz, Party Round provided solutions for founders, with a focus on an automated fundraising tool. CEO Jordi Hays explained in the press that their rebrand was tied to the company’s expanding vision to support other startups. Party Round reflected a product for fundraising and bringing together investors, but it limited the vision he and co-founder Sarah Chase had for the company. Capital.xyz’s expanded platform will still help startups raise money, but will offer additional features that allow those startups to use their capital immediately.1 As stated simply on their Twitter bio, Capital.xyz aims to help you “raise, hold, spend, and send funds – all in one place.”
The new platform offers benefits for startups as well as investors. Companies can sign up for an account on Capital.xyz to begin fundraising. Capital.xyz can issue a virtual Visa debit card once the companies begin raising capital so they can start using the funds they just received. Startups can also connect the Capital.xyz app to other fintech services like HR platform Gusto. This can help companies to raise money directly through Capital.xyz and then hold, spend, and send cash through it. Potential investors are able to do some angel investing in early-stage companies within Capital.xyz’s network and track that investment. The platform also added an NFT associated with the funding round. Investors can choose whether they wish to display the NFT on Twitter as evidence of their investment. Capital.xyz provides a full set of resources for founders and investors on their Support page, including how to start a fundraising round and how to invest using wire transfer.
We are always happy to have growing, innovative businesses like Capital.xyz in the .xyz community of forward-thinkers, and we look forward to seeing their continued growth. You can learn more by following them on Twitter and LinkedIn, and by visiting Capital.xyz.
1. https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/04/party-rounds-rebrand-is-banking-on-founder-bank-accounts/
XYZ hopes you and your loved ones have a happy and healthy Thanksgiving. As you prepare for the festive holiday season and the approaching new year, it’s a perfect time to give thought to developing your online presence or launching that new idea. This year’s Quarterly series has delivered great tips on the fundamentals of website design, including choosing the ideal domain name, SEO strategy, and designing an impactful website. Now is a great time to put those tips to use.
The XYZ Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales are your chance to score the perfect domain to build your online presence. Check out this year’s great offers:
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As you jump in to choose the ideal domain name (for up to 95% less than standard retail price!), find inspiration from the many innovative and forward-thinking members of the XYZ community:
Consider getting a jump on your holiday gift list by getting members of your family their own .xyz and .Christmas domains. Your website is your own piece of the internet, and giving the gift of a XYZ domain helps your loved ones share their creativity, passion, and innovation with the world. You can find even more festive .Christmas inspiration on our .Christmas blog post.
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MichaelHo.xyz – Network Solutions customer – (Japan)
The .xyz community is home to talented visual creatives using .xyz domains to develop their portfolios and showcase their artwork. Illustrator Leighton Gray uses LeightonGray.xyz to display her assortment of artwork and creative endeavors. Visual effects (VFX) designer Yue Jia uses Realtime.xyz to share his VFX designs. Programmer Rosenbloomboom.xyz showcases their Unity3D, C++, JavaScript, and Ionic-based gaming projects. In this week’s #WebsiteWednesday, we’ll introduce you to a contemporary artist who shares his artwork using a “FirstNameLastName.xyz” domain: MichaelHo.xyz.
MichaelHo.xyz is the personal website of Michael Rikio Ming Hee Ho. Born in Hawaii, Michael is a Cantonese, Japanese American contemporary artist currently based in Tokyo. He specializes in creating art that is aimed to encourage dialogue about today’s society. Michael graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Fine Arts from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2018. At the end of that year, he moved to Tokyo and began showing work in Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Los Angeles. Michael is represented by Tokyo International Gallery and is a member of the collaborative art space Shinokubo UGO.1 In 2022, Michael was selected as one of “30 Artists under 35” by leading art magazine ARTnews Japan.2
Michael’s Selected Artwork, CV, and Bio are easy to explore with a simple and informative website design. Visitors can easily navigate to each page, which can help make Michael’s information easy to find. Michael features a slideshow of his unique, text-based artwork on his homepage. For a more detailed experience, click on the Selected Artwork link to see each art piece with a full description, such as a work titled Good Enough. This work is made of enamel, acrylic, ink transfers, spray paint and resin on canvas and stands over 4 feet tall. It is a black and white oblong structure that has been spray painted with the words “GOOD ENOUGH” in bright orange. Another piece is titled Hyperinflation, and stands nearly 5 feet tall. Made of the same materials, the artwork reads “HIGH MARKET VOLATILITY AND HYPERINFLATION ARE A PART OF THE WORK” in stenciled black spray paint on top of a colorful background. With Michael’s inclusion of his CV page, potential collaborators, galleries, and clients can gain a full understanding of Michael’s talent, background, and experience, which can help them make the choice to work with him.
Using a FirstNameLastName.xyz domain like MichaelHo.xyz for your personal website can be beneficial, because MIchael is not limited by any third-party platform constraints. He can use his website as the online hub of his artwork, and maintain complete control over how he presents his creations. We are excited to have Michael and his artwork in the .xyz community of innovative artists and creatives. You can learn more about Michael and see more of his artwork by following him on Instagram and by visiting MichaelHo.xyz.
1. https://www.tokyoartbeat.com/en/venues/-/DD7ED46A
2. https://artnewsjapan.com/30artists_u35/article/12
Santa is making his list and checking it twice, because Christmas is coming up around the bend. Before we start gift shopping and dressing the tree, we’d like to introduce you to a selection of inspiring websites developed on the most festive domain extension in the XYZ Family: .Christmas!
Festive and memorable .Christmas domains can promote your holiday gifts and services and make your holiday information easy to find online. From Santas-for-hire and Christmas music catalogs to holiday fun and games, here are .Christmas domains that can help instill holiday cheer:
SantaForACause.Christmas – Network Solutions customer
SantaForACause.Christmas is the online hub of Texas-based Mike Larrivee’s Santa-for-hire services. He boasts a career long enough to see two generations of children telling Santa what they most want for Christmas.
Mike’s largest venue is the Highway 6 Parade of Lights, an annual fundraiser for the Texas Volunteer Firefighter Relief Fund. He waves and wishes a merry Christmas to thousands each year. He is available for hire for Christmas parties and special events, and has even been known to show up at individual homes for a little extra convincing that Santa Claus is real. Mike doesn’t charge nonprofits, schools, or hospitals for his Santa services. For private or corporate groups, he asks only for a donation to the Texas Volunteer Firefighter Relief Fund. You can book directly online or send an inquiry using the custom branded email address [email protected]. For more information, you can follow Mike on Facebook and visit SantaForACause.Christmas.
NorthPoleSantaClaus.Christmas – 1API customer
NorthPoleSantaClaus.Christmas is another website offering unique Santa services – and then some. This Colorado-based Santa offers online visits straight from his office at the “North Pole.” Scheduling for the 5, 10, or 15 minute Online Visits opens in mid–October.
In addition to Santa visits, there are lots of Christmas-themed resources to be found on NorthPoleSantaClaus.Christmas. Children can learn all about Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus, the elves, and the flying reindeer. You can visit the Answers to Children’s Questions page for insight about the biggest Christmas mysteries such as “How does Santa deliver presents all over the world in one night?” and “How do reindeer fly?” Over on the Fun Family Things to Do page, you can find fun card games and coloring pages. You can learn more by visiting NorthPoleSantaClaus.Christmas.
NorthPoleMail.Christmas – eNom customer
NorthPoleMail.Christmas is the online hub of the North Pole Post Office. At least that’s what “Judy the Elf” would like to help you believe. As she is quoted on the homepage, “Seeing isn’t believing. Believing is seeing.”
This fun and child-friendly platform helps believers of all ages email letters and wish lists to Santa. This charming feature includes the branded email address [email protected], which can help those wish lists reach Santa in time. There are additional features, such as Reviews of Christmas Books and Christmas TV Specials. One of Judy’s personal favorites is “Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town,” which first aired back on December 14, 1970. You can unwrap all the fun by visiting NorthPoleMail.Christmas.
Records.Christmas – 1API customer
Records.Christmas is a website that aims to “capture the variety, rich traditions, and sheer artistic quality of Christmas records.” The website primarily consists of Christmas music articles and a database of short album reviews, covering records from all regions of the world and of every type of Christmas music, from all decades of music history.
To help get you in the Christmas spirit, check out The Top 10 Christmas Albums of 2021 to find last year’s biggest Christmas hits from around the world. You can also read a review of Elvis’ Christmas Album, the best-selling Christmas Album of all time. You can learn more by visiting Records.Christmas.
Marathon.Christmas – Gandi customer
Marathon.Christmas is the online home of Marathon Christmas, an annual 25-hour holiday music marathon on New Jersey-based radio station 103.3FM WPRB.
The winter-themed website operates as an online hub for the WPRB community excited about Christmas. Marathon.Christmas features archives of past marathons, updates about this year’s marathon, song request submissions, and more. WPRB welcomes any inquiries or feedback via the branded email address [email protected]. A custom email address like this can help generate trust. When you have an email address directly associated with your domain name, customers can use that email address to find your website and feel assured that they’re reaching out to the appropriate person. You can learn more by visiting Marathon.Christmas.
HowLongTo.Christmas – Ledl.net customer
Lastly, all this talk about Christmas might have you wondering just how close we are to the big day. Christmas-tracker HowLongTo.Christmas can help you answer that immediately.
Austria-based advertising agency Villa Marianne designed the Santa-themed Christmas countdown which displays just how many days, hours, minutes, and seconds are left until Christmas morning. Santa’s tell-tale beard and mustache adorn the screen directly under the timer, which can help children of all ages get ready for their favorite holiday of the year. You can check it out for yourself at HowLongTo.Christmas.
With so many festive projects coming to life, now is a great time to launch your idea on a .Christmas domain of your own.
PizzaTime.xyz – Hexonet customer – (United States)
The .xyz community is home to many startups that have recognized emerging trends and have used innovation and forward-thinking to develop new services to meet the changing needs of our society. Digital talent measurement solution Questy.xyz aims to automate recruitment workflow, assess candidates’ skills, and map a complete employee development lifecycle. Learning tool Fingerspelling.xyz leverages hand recognition technology paired with machine learning to help teach American Sign Language. Full-stack DeFi aggregator ADD.xyz is designed to deliver a wide variety of decentralized finance products and related solutions all on one platform. In this week’s #WebsiteWednesday, we’ll introduce you to a Brooklyn-based startup that helps the growing number of remote organizations quickly and easily facilitate catering and virtual experiences for its teams: PizzaTime.xyz.
PizzaTime.xyz is a catering and event service tailored for remote teams, with options including pizza, burgers, salads, virtual happy hours, Bingo, trivia, and more. Customers can visit PizzaTime.xyz to arrange an event for people spread out in various different places. Sign up, select your chosen food items or events, and PizzaTime.xyz says they will take care of the rest. On the day of the event, just join your virtual meeting and the food items will be delivered to each guest.
Boosting morale in remote environments can be a challenge. PizzaTime.xyz founder Josh Gross knows this because he is also a founder and managing partner of remote digital agency Planetary. When attempting to organize a pizza party for remote workers proved to be difficult, he had the idea to develop PizzaTime.xyz. The PizzaTime.xyz app helps you order pizza for your remote team and keep track of everyone’s preferences. PizzaTime.xyz can help remote teams bond and build morale by bringing the team together for a fun and interactive experience.
Josh and his agency launched PizzaTime.xyz in 2019, and then relaunched in 2020 during the pandemic shutdowns and sudden growth in remote teams and work-from-home arrangements. The service began receiving orders for parties as large as 30 people, and the number of parties per month steadily increased. As popularity grew, additional food items, like coffee and breakfast items, and virtual events hosted by DJs or stand-up comedians were added to the service’s menu of options.
PizzaTime.xyz’s homepage boasts satisfied clients including athletic apparel brand Nike, music streaming service Spotify, and software company Adobe. They also share 5-star reviews from clients such as food manufacturer General Mills, online marketplace Amazon, and finance corporation Capital One. An executive assistant from Amazon writes that PizzaTime.xyz “takes away the huge time consumption it normally would take if I had to place orders for everyone manually or if I had to send them all gift cards and expense everything, one by one.” A representative from Capital One shared that PizzaTime.xyz is “the best option to use when planning a virtual lunch for teams across multiple sites and locations.”
Josh and his team have scored the handle @pizzatime.xyz on Instagram, which makes them easily discoverable and promotes their website URL right in the handle. We are inspired by the forward-thinking demonstrated by Josh to develop the unique services provided by PizzaTime.xyz. This time-saving and morale-boosting service further demonstrates that the .xyz community is home to true innovators. You can learn more by visiting PizzaTime.xyz.
