| Colin C. Campbell | |
| Education: | University of Toronto |
| Occupation: | CEO of Internet Direct (1994–1999); CEO of Tucows (1997–1999); President and CEO of .Club Domains LLC |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
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]
Originally from Toronto, Campbell graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts in Commerce; he later moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States.[3] His work has been recognized by Profit magazine, which named his companies the seventh- and first-fastest growing in Canada in 1997 and 1998, respectively.