Colin C. Campbell is a Canadian entrepreneur who has co-founded several Internet and technology startup companies, including Internet Direct,

Tucows Tucows Inc. is an American-Canadian publicly traded Internet services and telecommunications company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and incorporated in Pennsylvania, United States. The company is composed of three independent business ...

, Hostopia, and .Club Domains LLC, the operator of .club.

Career

Campbell has co-founded several Internet and technology companies, including Internet Direct, the domain registrar

, and Hostopia, a website hosting and service provider now owned by Deluxe. Note: See section "About Colin Campbell and Jeff Sass". He served as Internet Direct's

chief executive officer A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...

(CEO) from 1994 to 1999 and Tucows' CEO from 1997 to 1999. Campbell is a founding member of the

Canadian Internet Registration Authority The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) (french: Autorité canadienne pour les enregistrements Internet ACEI) is the organization that manages the .ca country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Canada. Its offices are located at 979 ...

(CIRA) and served on its board of directors from June 2001 to January 2003. He served Hostopia's president from November 2005 to April 2006 and CEO from January 2001 to February 2008. He is a former director of the Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP). Campbell is the founder and continues to serve as president and CEO of the domain name registry .Club Domains LLC, which operates the new

generic top-level domain Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) are one of the categories of top-level domains (TLDs) maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for use in the Domain Name System of the Internet. A top-level domain is the last level of eve ...

(gTLD) string .club. He formed .Club Domains with idea that the .club domain extension would offer unity for those with passions, rather than commercial interests. Campbell co-founded EntrepreneurWiki, an online

wiki A wiki ( ) is an online hypertext publication collaboratively edited and managed by its own audience, using a web browser. A typical wiki contains multiple pages for the subjects or scope of the project, and could be either open to the pu ...

for entrepreneurs, and is a member of the

Entrepreneurs' Organization Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) is a global non-profit organization formerly known as Young Entrepreneurs' Organization (YEO). The organization was founded in 1987. History In 1987, 22 young entrepreneurs created an organization and what was ...

(EO). After being invited to guest speak at

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

(MIT) on the topic of entrepreneurship, Campbell received $100,000 in investments funding for .club from an investor who witnessed his speech. 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 Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU; ), is a public university in Beijing, China. BFSU boasts the oldest language programs in China offering the largest number of foreign language majors on different educational levels. Located in Haidia ...

Personal life and recognition

Originally from Toronto, Campbell graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts in Commerce and now lives in Fort Lauderdale. His work has been recognized by ''Profit'' magazine, which named his companies the seventh and second fastest growing in Canada in 1997 and 1998, respectively. In 2005, ''Profit'' and ''Inc.'' magazines named his company the fastest growing.

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