Founded in 2009, Gravity Forms builds WordPress-based business workflow applications. The company has been operating for 13 years and is commonly referred to as Gravity. The premium Gravity.com domain, which had previously belonged to Yahoo, Verizon, Oath, and AOL, was recently bought by Gravity, according to a Tweet from the company.
Branch is a full-stack insurance company that uses data, technology, and automation to simplify and lower the cost of purchasing home and auto insurance. The company recently raised $147 million in Series C funding and joined the unicorn club at a $1.05B valuation.
Country extensions also come with certain risks that an established brand like Scale would better avoid as it grows. Scale AI found a solution by investing in the premium dictionary word domain name Scale.com and bringing trust and credibility to their business.
After growth and establishment, companies that start with a compromise extension often upgrade their domains. The example with Modular is no different; the company secured its exact brand match domain name Modular.com.
Distributed established itself locally in the UK and aims to go global, starting with the Netherlands, Germany, France, and the US. The startup has raised a total of £45.9M in funding over 6 rounds. The brand invested in Distributed.com sometime in early June 2022, just before its latest funding round. Securing its brand is a clear sign the brand has long-term global ambitions and is here to stay.
Firemind is a UK-based digital engineering company specializing in data management, analytics, artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), and accelerating innovation.
Gala Games is a blockchain-based gaming studio with a devoted and growing user base of over 1.3 million active players. The company is on a mission to redefine the world of gaming and has recently dived into the NFT world by allocating $5 billion within the next year to expand its NFT offerings. In addition, Gala is planning to set aside $1 billion each for its movies and music goals.
Electra is a US-based startup on a mission to “slash carbon emissions from the US electrical grid by 2030”. The company acquired electra.co in April 2022 and shortly after invested in the exact brand match name electra.com. Domain name upgrades are often seen when startups launch on a compromise extension due to budget restraints.
Dune Analytics is a Web 3 data platform allowing users to create SQL queries on blockchain data for free. The results are visualised as charts. Dune recently simplified its brand name, dropping the word “analytics” and, invested in the premium one-word domain name Dune.com.
Yuga Labs has undoubtedly discovered the key to success, so upgrading to the exact brand match domain Yuga.com name looked like the most logical next step on its path to worldwide market supremacy.
Caribou initially launched as an auto refinancing business called MotoRefi in 2016. As the company grew and became successful, it kept adding new services and products to its portfolio. The brand name MotoRefi soon became limiting, leading to a rebrand to Caribou. This more generic name avoids the restrictions implied by the original brand name and opened broader markets to the company.
Comet ML is a machine learning (ML) development platform based in the United States that allows data scientists to track datasets, code changes, experimentation history, and production models automatically, resulting in increased efficiency, transparency, and reproducibility. In only a few years since its launch, the company has attracted more than 150 customers and expanded its workforce globally.