Kate Buckley, Founder / CEO
Buckley Media specializes in domain name brokerage and acquisition, naming and branding. Our experienced team, known for its exemplary customer service and strong, authentic relationships in the domain industry, startup industry, and established corporate universe, provides targeted, strategic outreach and stellar service to our valued clientele. Specializing in maximizing value in both buying and selling ultra-premium domain names, the Buckley Media team epitomizes professionalism, expert guidance, a throughly customized approach, and trust.
Buckley Media's founder, Kate Buckley, has 25 years of experience in marketing and business development, with deep experience in Premium Domain Sales, Acquisitions & Consulting, Naming and Branding. An intuitive and creative thinker, she strategizes with individuals and brands, then translates those roadmaps into deliverables: naming, domains, creative strategies—reimagining their past, orienting their present, and co-creating their future. Kate worked for Top 5 agencies in the New York, and for brands throughout Southern California and the South — and can speak all those languages. And has spent enough time in Silicon Valley to understand how that ecosystem works as well.
Kate has worked with premium domains since 1998 (The Castello Brothers) and is an expert at premium domain appraisal, consulting (ideation, sales, and strategy) and representation—buying and selling ultra-premium .COMs for investors, PE, VC, established companies, and start-ups—matchmaking the right domain with the right company. She has personally brokered millions of dollars in both private and publicly-recorded top sales including names like Chocolate.com, eBike.com, Engage.com, Faith.com, and Rate.com. Buckley Media has recently been retained to broker several legacy portfolios of highly-desirable one word dictionary .COMs—please see a curated selection at: Defining.com.
A strong communicator who can identify deficiencies and opportunities, and develop innovative, creative and effective solutions for engaging consumers and enhancing competitiveness, Kate specializes in building brands through effective naming, stealth domain acquisitions, marketing, and storytelling. She excels at analyzing an organization's critical requirements, understanding both who a brand is now, and who they want to be when they grow up — devising the names and procuring the domains, stories and strategies to bridge that gap.
Kate 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 WaterSchool.
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.
Buckley Media is a member of the ICANN Business Constituency where Kate serves on the Credentials Committee, and Internet Commerce Association where Kate sits on the ICA Advisory Board; all Buckley Media team members abide by the ICA 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.
Buckley Media's founder, Kate Buckley, has 25 years of experience in marketing and business development, with deep experience in Premium Domain Sales, Acquisitions & Consulting, Naming and Branding. An intuitive and creative thinker, she strategizes with individuals and brands, then translates those roadmaps into deliverables: naming, domains, creative strategies—reimagining their past, orienting their present, and co-creating their future. Kate worked for Top 5 agencies in the New York, and for brands throughout Southern California and the South — and can speak all those languages. And has spent enough time in Silicon Valley to understand how that ecosystem works as well.
Kate has worked with premium domains since 1998 (The Castello Brothers) and is an expert at premium domain appraisal, consulting (ideation, sales, and strategy) and representation—buying and selling ultra-premium .COMs for investors, PE, VC, established companies, and start-ups—matchmaking the right domain with the right company. She has personally brokered millions of dollars in both private and publicly-recorded top sales including names like Chocolate.com, eBike.com, Engage.com, Faith.com, and Rate.com. Buckley Media has recently been retained to broker several legacy portfolios of highly-desirable one word dictionary .COMs—please see a curated selection at: Defining.com.
A strong communicator who can identify deficiencies and opportunities, and develop innovative, creative and effective solutions for engaging consumers and enhancing competitiveness, Kate specializes in building brands through effective naming, stealth domain acquisitions, marketing, and storytelling. She excels at analyzing an organization's critical requirements, understanding both who a brand is now, and who they want to be when they grow up — devising the names and procuring the domains, stories and strategies to bridge that gap.
Kate 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 WaterSchool.
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.
Buckley Media is a member of the ICANN Business Constituency where Kate serves on the Credentials Committee, and Internet Commerce Association where Kate sits on the ICA Advisory Board; all Buckley Media team members abide by the ICA 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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