Hirehive Updates
HireHive is all grown up - from .io to dotcom
Siobhan Hasner
HireHive
Siobhan Hasner
HireHive
Siobhan Hasner
HireHive
Siobhan Hasner
HireHive
Negotiations for the domain have taken almost two years, but now hirehive.com is active after years of being dormant. It is always something that has been on our minds - .io resonates with tech people and the start up community, but is not as widely known in other industries.
The .io domain was causing confusion. Often I would give a demo, only for the first question to not be about our great product (yes we're a little biased), but to instead be about our domain. We've missed emails from Irish companies who assumed it must be ‘.ie’ instead of ‘io’. Customers have visited hirehive.com and asked why our site is down.
There are plenty of stories out there - Sumo paid $1.5 million for their .com and fellow Irish company Teamwork made headlines when they paid €500,000 for the .com domain. The cost of hirehive.com didn’t come close to this, but was never the less a sizable amount for us as a company. We made the decision and negotiation started. Now we’re finally the proud owners of hirehive.com - which is probably where you are reading this post!
This marks a big milestone for us for a number of reasons, most importantly:
It’s been a few days and we are still getting used to the change. When speaking about HireHive, we always made a point to mention the ‘.io’ so people wouldn’t assume it was ‘.com’. Even when writing this I had to stop myself typing hirehive.io….
But having now moved over our website, email addresses and social channels, we are confident that this was the right decision and look forward to continued growth as a dotcom start up, as hirehive.com
“HireHive makes the team a lot more productive. We’d be lost without it. Team Leaders can do it all themselves if needed or jump in at the right time and know exactly where everything is and what’s happening.”
Hilary Dempsey Head of HR at Life Credit union
