Founded in 2011, Architelos’ mission is to enable collective wisdom in the service of the Internet. We guide our clients to realize their full economic potential while building a better Internet for future generations. Our products include outsourced registry management, corporate consulting, and software tools for registry and DNS operators. Our management team has over 40 years of experience in building, launching, and managing multi-million domain generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). Our core team includes: the former CEO of .org and CMO of .mobi, CFO of .mobi, VP of Product Development of Afilias, and ex-EY/KPMG Strategy & Operations Consulting Partner. Our years of hands-on experience, research, and intimate market knowledge has been distilled into our market-leading software products and is reflected in the testimonials and success of our clients.
Outsourced Registry Management
You applied for a new TLD with an innovative goal in mind - we hone your ideas and make them a reality. We allow you to focus on your industry-specific strengths while leveraging ours. We design, launch and operate the registry side of your business to fulfil your goals. Our services include, but are not limited to: marketing, sales, channel management, strategy, operations & technology, finance, and policy/regulatory functions.
Consulting
As the domain name industry’s most respected consulting firm, we help our clients make wise and timely decisions to achieve profitable growth. Our team solves your most complex challenges through rigorous analysis and impeccable execution. Our expertise allows you to control costs, manage risks, and achieve commercial goals. Architelos’ clients are the Who’s-Who of the domain name industry including, new gTLDs, existing gTLDs and ccTLDs, and registry service providers.
Software
Well before the launch of the first new gTLD of the 2012 round, we saw the need for targeted tools that did not exist in the industry. NameSentrySM, a patented abuse detection and mitigation service, is an easy-to-use portal that allows you to monitor the overall health and reputation of your TLD or domain portfolio near real-time. Used by ICANN’s Global Domains Division for abuse market intelligence and by over 45% of new gTLDs in the market to protect their users and enable compliance with Specification 11(3)b of the ICANN Registry Agreement, NameSentrySM is the unequivocal industry standard.
Architelos has also developed a suite of financial software products for domain registries and registrars. The solution is based on a number of modules each of which have perform specific roles, or when combined, support the financial activities of domain businesses.
Folio ExchangeSM - a next generation billing & remittance system that integrates with the all the front and back-end systems needed to automate billing.
NumberSenseSM - powerful tool that calculates deferred revenue & cost positions, accounting revenue & costs,and integrates seamlessly with both Folio Exchange and your general ledger.
Business Intelligence tools that provides insightful graphic-driven reports on the key business drivers of a registry. The user is faced with a series of high level graph dashboards which is constantly fed data from a range of sources (back-end, publicly available industry macro data and external sources). The user can customise their views and drill down to more detailed layers of data in order to investigate discrepancies and understand business trends.