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Kate Buckley posted thisWe're assisting some clients with a domain acquisition and are seeking a domain name that tracks to the following criteria: -Single word English Dictionary .COM or .AI -3 - 8 characters maximum -Positive to neutral connotation/meaning -Inspiration Words/Conveys: Action, Build, Collaboration, Creation, Design, Genesis, Orchestration, Precision, Prototype, Speed, Transformation The budget is up to $500K for the right domain. Please send any candidates with pricing to us at: Kate@Defining.com
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Kate Buckley reposted thisKate Buckley reposted thisTwo words changed everything. $1,000,000. No product. No employees. Just two domain names. But here's what shocked me, most entrepreneurs still think premium domains are just websites. Bar.com and Pub.com just sold together for seven figures. Kate Buckley helped sell these names for domain veteran Mike O'Connor. Each domain $500K, Plus Bar.net thrown in as a bonus. Why did someone pay this much? The buyer didn't just purchase web addresses. They acquired: • Instant brand authority • Global recognition • Complete category ownership • Zero customer confusion • Immediate trust signals Think about this for a second. Startups spend millions on marketing trying to get remembered. This buyer just purchased names that are impossible to forget. Mike O'Connor has repeated this pattern with Corp.com, Company.com, and Place.com. Different industries with same massive returns. Here's the truth most miss attention doesn't go to the best product. It goes to the name people remember first. When customers think bar or pub, where do you think they'll go online? The math is simple. Own the word and market. Premium domains aren't expenses. They're the fastest path to market dominance. What's stopping more businesses from investing in premium domains instead of burning cash on ads? #PremiumDomains #Branding #WebDomains #MarketingStrategy #OnlineBusiness
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Kate Buckley posted thisHandbook.com: The Ultimate Manual for Success. I’m thrilled to announce that Defining.com is now the exclusive broker for Handbook.com. In a world of digital noise, a one-word powerhouse like this isn't just a domain—it's a category-killer. Whether it’s for a global SaaS platform, a revolutionary HR tech suite, or a definitive industry resource, Handbook.com commands instant trust and "day one" authority. We are looking for the right visionary to take the keys to this digital asset. 📩 Serious inquiries: sales@defining.com #Domains #Branding #TechLeadership #Defining #DigitalRealEstate
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Kate Buckley shared thisPutting together advantageous win/win transactions is fun--particularly at the seven figure mark; working with clients we like and admire is priceless.Kate Buckley shared thisBar.com & Pub.com Sold Together for $1 Million in Deal Brokered by Kate Buckley's Defining.com: https://lnkd.in/eDYhkSCm
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Kate Buckley shared thisMost CEOs still treat their domain like a line item in the marketing budget. The smartest ones understand it’s one of the only assets you can buy once that compounds trust, lowers acquisition costs, strengthens your moat, and increases exit value. A great domain doesn’t just describe a company — it propels it. The domain is just the beginning... Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dzAmshdF #domains #brands #branding #marketing #growth #founders #venturecapital #PEKate Buckley Interview: Domain Brokerage to Brand StrategyKate Buckley Interview: Domain Brokerage to Brand Strategy
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Kate Buckley shared thisIt’s been years since my first interview with Mike Sullivan. Since then, a lot has changed. I’ve moved from "making a name" in brokerage to helping others "define" theirs. In this new interview, we discuss the transition to Defining.com and the importance of walking into a room with a strategy that encompasses naming, domain acquisition, and long-term growth. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/g89gxtcPKate Buckley shared thisI first interviewed Kate Buckley years ago when she was making a name for herself brokering premium domains. Since then she's quietly built something much bigger. The domain brokerage is still there, but Kate has expanded into naming, brand strategy, and growth consulting. She rebranded to Defining.com, and honestly the name tells you everything you need to know about where she's headed. She's one of the few people in this industry who can walk into a room, help a company find the right name, broker the domain, and then help them figure out what to do with it. Most people in our space do one of those things. Kate does all of them... https://lnkd.in/g89gxtcPKate Buckley Interview: Domain Brokerage to Brand StrategyKate Buckley Interview: Domain Brokerage to Brand Strategy
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Kate Buckley reposted thisKate Buckley reposted thisAt Defining.com, we love helping our clients score hard to get domains! Need help landing your whale? Reach out today for a complimentary consultation: Sales@Defining.com #domains #digitalassets #brands #founders
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Kate Buckley shared thisWell worth the read. AI.com isn’t a flex. It’s a blueprint. History keeps proving the same thing: whoever owns the category-defining domain name owns the narrative. #domainsRick Schwartz, The DomainKing® 👑 I invest in YOU. Curator of the World’s Most Iconic Domain Names.
Rick Schwartz, The DomainKing® 👑 I invest in YOU. Curator of the World’s Most Iconic Domain Names.
Kate Buckley shared thisHow a $12M domain became a billion-dollar category-owning advertising engine. AI .com, Crypto .com, and the Blueprint Most CEOs Still Don’t Understand We finally have a real success story to tell about category-defining domain names. People were naturally shocked at the $70 million sale of AI .com. Some shocked. Some in disbelief. If this were a one-off sale, we would talk about it for a few days and move on. But that’s not what this is. This is a repeatable event executed by someone who already proved the model. Crypto .com was purchased in 2018 for approximately $12 million. What does a category-defining domain mean? What is the power behind owning the name that represents the entire sector? What can you actually do with it? Here’s the roadmap. This is not theory. This is execution. He turned an $12 million domain purchase into some of the most powerful advertising exposure on earth. Direct from publicly available information: Crypto .com holds an extensive portfolio of high-profile sports and entertainment sponsorships, including: • Naming rights to Crypto .com Arena in Los Angeles – $700M, 20 years. Home of the Los Angeles Lakers (NBA), Los Angeles Kings (NHL) and Los Angeles Sparks (WNBA) • Formula 1 global partnership – $100M+ • Official UEFA Champions League sponsorship Key Sponsorships & Partnerships: Motorsports: Formula 1 (Global partner through 2030), Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix (Title sponsor), Aston Martin F1 Team Soccer: UEFA Champions League (Official Partner), Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), CONMEBOL Libertadores Combat Sports: UFC (Official Fight Kit Partner) Basketball: Philadelphia 76ers (NBA) Australian Football League (AFL) Brand Ambassador: Matt Damon Educational: LeBron James Family Foundation (I Promise School) As of 2025/2026, Crypto .com remains one of the largest cryptocurrency sponsors in global sports, focusing on high-visibility, premium events. That is what category ownership looks like. That is what happens when you control the name of the industry itself. There’s the lesson. There’s the recipe. AI .com is not a vanity purchase. It is the same playbook, earlier in the cycle. You can debate price. You can debate timing. But you cannot debate what controlling the category allows you to build once the machine is turned on. This isn’t about two letters. It’s about owning the umbrella under which everyone else competes. If this still feels confusing, it’s not because it’s complicated. #Domains #DigitalAssets #Collectibles #Advertising -
Kate Buckley shared thisAt Defining.com, we love helping our clients score hard to get domains! Need help landing your whale? Reach out today for a complimentary consultation: Kate@Defining.com #domains #digitalassets #brands #founders
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Kate Buckley reacted on thisI'm proud to share the fruits of my OpenClaw experiment. Yesterday I launched UpsideHero, which helps the 10M mom and pop real estate investors in the US make better, more informed decisions. The entire business—Research, Strategy, Content, Name, Logo, App Development, Website, Social, Programmatic Ad Campaign, etc. was built by me and my team of 6 AI agents in about 3 weeks. It wasn't all rainbows and butterflies. There were countless hours of sheer frustration, and while the system is consistently improving, nearly every deliverable needed significant direction, feedback and massaging. It has knowledge and data, but no taste. This agentic model is far from perfect, but it helped me launch this business in a fraction of the time it would have taken only a year ago. This is truly a game-changer. The future is here. Take a look at UpsideHero.com and let me know what you think. Thanks, ToddKate Buckley reacted on thisThere are hundreds of rental property calculators online. Most of them let you guess at rent. That's the problem. You type in the optimistic number. The calculator tells you it's a great deal. Six months later, the "8% return" is closer to 2%. Here's what most calculators skip: • Rent validation against real comps (not what one Zillow listing is asking) • Conservative expense defaults — vacancy, maintenance, CapEx reserves, turnover • Stress tests (what happens at -15% rent?) We've seen "12% cash-on-cash" deals collapse to 4% once real expenses hit. That's not a rounding error. That's the difference between a good investment and a second job. A calculator that doesn't challenge your assumptions isn't a tool. It's a wish generator. UpsideHero pulls real rental comps, defaults to honest expenses, and stress-tests every deal before giving you a verdict. Phase 1 is free. See how your next deal holds up when you can't fudge the numbers. Visit UpsideHero.com to learn more.
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Kate Buckley reacted on thisKate Buckley reacted on thisTwo words changed everything. $1,000,000. No product. No employees. Just two domain names. But here's what shocked me, most entrepreneurs still think premium domains are just websites. Bar.com and Pub.com just sold together for seven figures. Kate Buckley helped sell these names for domain veteran Mike O'Connor. Each domain $500K, Plus Bar.net thrown in as a bonus. Why did someone pay this much? The buyer didn't just purchase web addresses. They acquired: • Instant brand authority • Global recognition • Complete category ownership • Zero customer confusion • Immediate trust signals Think about this for a second. Startups spend millions on marketing trying to get remembered. This buyer just purchased names that are impossible to forget. Mike O'Connor has repeated this pattern with Corp.com, Company.com, and Place.com. Different industries with same massive returns. Here's the truth most miss attention doesn't go to the best product. It goes to the name people remember first. When customers think bar or pub, where do you think they'll go online? The math is simple. Own the word and market. Premium domains aren't expenses. They're the fastest path to market dominance. What's stopping more businesses from investing in premium domains instead of burning cash on ads? #PremiumDomains #Branding #WebDomains #MarketingStrategy #OnlineBusiness
Experience & Education
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Forbes Business Council
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Certified Pilates Mat Instructor
Power Pilates of New York
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Certified pet partner volunteer, therapy dog team - Animal Health Foundation
Delta Society
Issued ExpiresCredential ID 59176
Volunteer Experience
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Board Member; Business Development, Marketing and Social Media Advisor
The Peace Exchange
- 3 years 1 month
Poverty Alleviation
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Poetry Instructor, Art Instructor/Team Builder, Curriculum Creator, Event Volunteer
Women Wonder Writers
- 2 years 6 months
Children
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Big Sister - Mentoring Volunteer
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County & The Inland Empire
- 6 years 4 months
Children
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Gala Committee; Dinner Service
The Friendship Shelter
- 2 years 5 months
Poverty Alleviation
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Gala Committee; PR and Marketing Volunteer
With My Own Two Hands Foundation
- 4 years 1 month
Poverty Alleviation
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Mentoring Volunteer; Dream On Concert Gala Committee
Promises2Kids
- Present 3 years 4 months
Children
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Publications
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How to Create Great Brand Stories
The Business Journals
A great brand story helps distill the essential DNA of a brand into a memorable and engaging story, driving both internal strategy and external communication. The experts at The Story Corp show you how.
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“A Literary Landscape: Tapping into the natural inspiration of scene and setting"
2nd & Church
See publicationIn this essay on natural inspiration, particularly as regards the landscape of the American South, Buckley explores the role scenery and setting plays in the creation of literature.
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Follow Me Down
Tebot Bach
See publication"Vivid, passionate, pulsing with life in the face of loss and pain, these incantations bravely seek to void The Void. They are poems to conjure with." — Charles Harper Webb
"She is making her mark on the landscape of contemporary American poetry." — Molly Peacock
"This is a book where simplicity meets a siren named Kate Buckley and is all the better for it." — Radius
"15th century painter Cennini spoke of the art of 'unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones.'…"Vivid, passionate, pulsing with life in the face of loss and pain, these incantations bravely seek to void The Void. They are poems to conjure with." — Charles Harper Webb
"She is making her mark on the landscape of contemporary American poetry." — Molly Peacock
"This is a book where simplicity meets a siren named Kate Buckley and is all the better for it." — Radius
"15th century painter Cennini spoke of the art of 'unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones.' Like 'a sea turning in on itself' Kate Buckley's poems speak to this, moving together, folding and unfolding the echoes of a voice in place, a voice out of place, 'salt licking salt—/coming home.' Follow Me Down maps out the geography of longing where sometimes 'you walk the yellow fields,' sometimes 'the moon sets itself on fire,' lighting up the distances between the past and the future. Buckley's parenthetical considerations, her ache and intellect coincide in a sensuous, revelatory motioning toward that inspired sanctuary of who we are." — Elena Karina Byrne -
A Wild Region
Moon Tide Press
See publication"A Wild Region is a family history in verse as well as a lovely elegy for Buckley's grandmother set in a Kentucky that is both pastoral and industrial: 'I have ridden on horseback / under the harvest moon, gold and heavy' vs. 'the coughs that stained your linens black / no matter how many times you bleached them...' The elegies are especially moving... Pick up this book. (Buckley won this year's Hearst Poetry Prize.)" — North American Review
"Kate Buckley's poems are dark prayers and…"A Wild Region is a family history in verse as well as a lovely elegy for Buckley's grandmother set in a Kentucky that is both pastoral and industrial: 'I have ridden on horseback / under the harvest moon, gold and heavy' vs. 'the coughs that stained your linens black / no matter how many times you bleached them...' The elegies are especially moving... Pick up this book. (Buckley won this year's Hearst Poetry Prize.)" — North American Review
"Kate Buckley's poems are dark prayers and lyrical ballads, infused with mystery and awe... And the stories these poems tell—finely crafted as the poems are—are stories that speak to all of us, accessible and clear for all their complicated depth, 'universal' precisely because they're so deeply personal, and so deeply felt. There is so much stunning language in this collection, so much accuracy and grace, and there are so many images that take my breath away... Kate Buckley shows us how the beautiful and the brutal can not only coexist alongside one another, but exist within one another. Hers is a necessary and welcome new voice." — Cecilia Woloch
"Painting and poetry are two art forms that stand side by side and work well together. A Wild Region is a collection of oil paintings and poetry from prolific poet Kate Buckley, whose work has appeared in countless venues. Many of her poems are opposite full color art, adding a fresh dimension to her work. A Wild Region is a fine blend of artforms, highly recommended." — Midwest Book Review (Reviewer's Choice)
"A ribbon of Appalachia winds through Kate Buckley’s vigorous voice in her debut collection of poems, A Wild Region. It was my pleasure to choose her as the winner of the 2008 James Hearst Poetry Prize for the North American Review, and it is an equal pleasure to welcome this book of poems, crafted from the patterns of speech of the wild region Buckley loves and the wildness of its people, too." — Molly Peacock
Projects
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LagunaBeach.com
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See projectAfter developing LagunaBeach.com with the Castello Brothers, conceiving and authoring a new creative strategy and business plan, and brokering the sale of the domain from CCIN to LB Interactive, Kate worked with LagunaBeach.com and LB Interactive, LLC. to introduce a new look featuring state-of-the-art technologies to transform LagunaBeach.com into one of the world’s most impressive city sites—providing a wealth of creative content for both visitors and residents as well as generating maximum…
After developing LagunaBeach.com with the Castello Brothers, conceiving and authoring a new creative strategy and business plan, and brokering the sale of the domain from CCIN to LB Interactive, Kate worked with LagunaBeach.com and LB Interactive, LLC. to introduce a new look featuring state-of-the-art technologies to transform LagunaBeach.com into one of the world’s most impressive city sites—providing a wealth of creative content for both visitors and residents as well as generating maximum revenue for advertisers. She acted as interim President/CEO and Publisher, building out a team and supervising all operations, while developing content, strategy and social media platforms. On Facebook alone, she took LagunaBeach.com from 5,000 likes to 25,000 likes in only 11 months!
Honors & Awards
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Poet Laureate
City of Laguna Beach
Kate Buckley has been appointed Poet Laureate of the City of Laguna Beach, California. She was selected from the field of finalists by juror, award-winning poet and professor, Grant Hier. Mr. Hier reviewed applications taking into consideration personality, professionalism, educational experience, poetic talent, resume, performance experience and proposal. Kate will serve from May 1, 2017 - April 30, 2018 and her platform will include serving as a brand ambassador for the literary arts—creating…
Kate Buckley has been appointed Poet Laureate of the City of Laguna Beach, California. She was selected from the field of finalists by juror, award-winning poet and professor, Grant Hier. Mr. Hier reviewed applications taking into consideration personality, professionalism, educational experience, poetic talent, resume, performance experience and proposal. Kate will serve from May 1, 2017 - April 30, 2018 and her platform will include serving as a brand ambassador for the literary arts—creating content, performing readings, conducting workshops and classes, and leading and coordinating Laguna Beach's first ever official poetry festival.
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Bridport Prize, Short Story Category (Shortlisted)
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James Hearst Poetry Prize
North American Review
Kate's poem "The Life Cycle of Moths" won the prestigious North American Review's James Hearst Poetry Prize in 2008, as selected by judge Molly Peacock.
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Red Hen Press's Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award (Finalist)
Red Hen Press
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Gabehart Prize for Imaginative Writing
Kentucky Women Writers Conference
Languages
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
Organizations
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The Friendship Shelter
Gala Planning Committee
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Laguna Beach Chamber of Commerce
Member-at-large, Member - Board of Directors, Executive Board, Nominating Committee
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