Kate Buckley, Founder / CEO
Buckley Media is a leading provider of domain name brokerage, acquisition, naming, and branding services. Our experienced team, known for its exceptional customer service and industry relationships, provides targeted and strategic support to our valued clients. We specialize in maximizing value in buying and selling ultra-premium domain names and are known for our professionalism, expert guidance, customized approach, and trustworthiness.
Our founder, Kate Buckley, has over 25 years of experience in marketing, business development, and premium domain sales. She has worked with premium domains since 1998 (The Castello Brothers) and is an expert at premium domain appraisal, consulting, and representation—buying and selling ultra-premium .COMs for investors, PE, VC, established companies, and start-ups. She has personally sold well over eight figures in domain names in both private and publicly-recorded top sales including: Chocolate.com, Dutch.com, eBike.com, Engage.com, Faith.com, Night.com, Rate.com, REFI.com, Sleeping.com, Snoring.com, and many more. Buckley Media has also been retained to broker several legacy portfolios of highly-desirable one word dictionary .COMs—please see a curated selection at: Defining.com.
Kate's background in advertising, marketing, and PR, along with her intuition and creativity, allows her to develop effective solutions for building brands through naming, stealth domain acquisitions, marketing, and storytelling. She holds a BA in Advertising and Public Relations, an MFA in Creative Writing, and is a Certified Professional Coach (LCIOC) and Public Speaker (AMA). Also an award-winning poet and writer, she was named the inaugural Poet Laureate of Laguna Beach in 2017. Kate's a strong believer in supporting community. Apart from her involvement in a personal capacity, she ensures that Buckley Media provides pro bono work for worthy causes and donates a considerable portion of the proceeds of each domain sale to charities such as Big Brothers Big Sisters, Feeding America, and Promises2Kids.
Kate is a regular speaker and panelist on the domain industry, storytelling and branding, including keynoting NamesCon Global (she's also a member of the NamesCon Advisory Board); has been published by Forbes, The Business Journals and other key publications, and has been interviewed or profiled by Accelerate OC, DNJournal, Domain Name Wire, Domain Sherpa Review, TheDomainShow.com, Hooked on Startups, and the Internet Commerce Association. She is also a member of the Forbes Business Council and was most recently named to the Forbes Next 1000. Kate is also on the Advisory Board of NamesCon.
Buckley Media is a member of the ICANN Business Constituency where Kate serves on the Credentials Committee, and the Internet Commerce Association where Kate sits on the ICA Advisory Board; all Buckley Media team members abide by the ICA Code of Conduct and the ICA Broker Code of Conduct.
Read a profile on Kate at DNJournal.com
Please click here for a list of Buckley Media team members, partners, and associates.
Our founder, Kate Buckley, has over 25 years of experience in marketing, business development, and premium domain sales. She has worked with premium domains since 1998 (The Castello Brothers) and is an expert at premium domain appraisal, consulting, and representation—buying and selling ultra-premium .COMs for investors, PE, VC, established companies, and start-ups. She has personally sold well over eight figures in domain names in both private and publicly-recorded top sales including: Chocolate.com, Dutch.com, eBike.com, Engage.com, Faith.com, Night.com, Rate.com, REFI.com, Sleeping.com, Snoring.com, and many more. Buckley Media has also been retained to broker several legacy portfolios of highly-desirable one word dictionary .COMs—please see a curated selection at: Defining.com.
Kate's background in advertising, marketing, and PR, along with her intuition and creativity, allows her to develop effective solutions for building brands through naming, stealth domain acquisitions, marketing, and storytelling. She holds a BA in Advertising and Public Relations, an MFA in Creative Writing, and is a Certified Professional Coach (LCIOC) and Public Speaker (AMA). Also an award-winning poet and writer, she was named the inaugural Poet Laureate of Laguna Beach in 2017. Kate's a strong believer in supporting community. Apart from her involvement in a personal capacity, she ensures that Buckley Media provides pro bono work for worthy causes and donates a considerable portion of the proceeds of each domain sale to charities such as Big Brothers Big Sisters, Feeding America, and Promises2Kids.
Kate is a regular speaker and panelist on the domain industry, storytelling and branding, including keynoting NamesCon Global (she's also a member of the NamesCon Advisory Board); has been published by Forbes, The Business Journals and other key publications, and has been interviewed or profiled by Accelerate OC, DNJournal, Domain Name Wire, Domain Sherpa Review, TheDomainShow.com, Hooked on Startups, and the Internet Commerce Association. She is also a member of the Forbes Business Council and was most recently named to the Forbes Next 1000. Kate is also on the Advisory Board of NamesCon.
Buckley Media is a member of the ICANN Business Constituency where Kate serves on the Credentials Committee, and the Internet Commerce Association where Kate sits on the ICA Advisory Board; all Buckley Media team members abide by the ICA Code of Conduct and the ICA Broker Code of Conduct.
Read a profile on Kate at DNJournal.com
Please click here for a list of Buckley Media team members, partners, and associates.
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