The word upward is available to register in the .is extension

Quick shoutout

A few days ago I did a Namedrop via our Twitter for plum.is and the domain was registered almost immediately. An awesome name snatched up by @TechieDomains on Twitter. Glad you liked the name enough to grab it and hopefully some good comes out of it.

Hey entrepreneur community, the domain name upward.is is available for registration

Meaning: 

moving, pointing, or leading to a higher place, point, or level.

or

the capacity or facility for rising to a higher social or economic position.

As previously mentioned, upward is available in the domain extension .is. The .is extension, like many other nontraditional or obscure country code extension is starting to see a little acceptance by creators/maker due to the lack of good domain names that also serve as good brand names in the more recognizable extensions, namely .com and to a lesser extent .co, .io, .net and .org. Another major factor to the rise and use of ccTLD's by people who are not from the country of whatever corresponding country code they are using is open registration. The .is extension has open registration, meaning, anyone can register and use a domain name in the .is extension without having to be a citizen or have residence in Iceland.

Let's take a look at some examples of companies, apps or sites that are built using some of the aforementioned extensions.

hypothes.is, island.is, fractal.is, honey.is, good.is, grid.is, listy.is, hyper.is, canary.is, sunlight.is and there are plenty more!

This extension is available at a few registrars but probably the most notable is Namecheap. Which, by the way, is a pretty outstanding domain registrar which has good tools for makers/creators.

Registered Extensions:

The word upward is registered in 143 other extensions, so a huge amount of domain extension registered in this word and pretty good brand potential.

Google search

Search volume for the keyword upward is pretty strong with 10k-100k per month with low ranking competition and a Cost Per Click (CPC) of 1.05 on the low end and 11.78 on the high end for top of page bid. Good potential to brand your company with this word because of high search engine volume.

Other synonyms/related words that are very popular with startups/businesses:

up, sky, rise, climb, north, ascend, above, vertical, uphill, growth, upstream, upper, top, progress and uplift.

Ideas for the name: 

A cryptocurrency platform, tech company, an SEO service, stats analysis platform, crowdfunding platform, marketing firm, etc.

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