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Case Study · .Box Domains / Web3

.Box Domains → Pricing, Partnerships & Retention

Owned product, pricing, ecosystem partnerships and the drops marketing engine for a Web3 domains platform built on ENS / Optimism.

Outcome

50% renewal · +20% DUM · 7 integrations closed

My role

Director of Web3 Products. Sole product leader; player-coach across product, growth and partnerships. Direct reports: UX/UI Designer, Community Manager.

Context

.Box is an early-stage Web3 startup inside Intercap (PE), building a blockchain-based domain platform on the ENS protocol on Optimism. Lean team of 7, no dedicated marketing or BD function, reporting directly to the CEO. I was the sole product leader with two direct reports (designer + community manager), accountable for domains under management, renewal rate, ecosystem partnership pipeline and platform revenue.

Approach

Product Management & Ownership

  • 01

    Owned the full product roadmap end-to-end: PRDs, Jira, QA, launch coordination, and release management.

  • 02

    Used customer purchase and market pricing data to design promotional and renewal pricing optimised for retention economics over first-year acquisition.

  • 03

    Managed the relationship with our core backend provider 3DNS → built direct rapport with their CEO, cut average resolution time on 3DNS-dependent tickets in half, and improved roadmap milestone predictability.

  • 04

    Used ChatGPT to synthesize user sentiment and analytics data into roadmap decisions and PRD requirements → compressed the discovery-to-spec cycle.

  • 05

    Used Lovable to rapidly prototype board presentations, communicate requirements to designers, and draft in-app copy → shortened stakeholder feedback loops from weeks to days.

  • 06

    Identified gap in customer support ticketing process where engineering was not looped into issues and had no way of efficiently managing user issues → established customer support ticket triaging framework to determine which tickets require engineering support and automated consumption of tickets into JIRA and into sprint planning ceremonies.

Leadership

  • 01

    Sole product leader on a 7-person team reporting directly to the CEO; operated as player-coach across product, growth, and partnerships in the absence of dedicated marketing or BD functions.

  • 02

    Trained a Community Manager on product management execution from discovery, PRD writing, and release coordination → expanding bench depth without new hires.

  • 03

    Onboarded a Senior PM and mentored a UX/UI Designer on Web3 design principles and the underlying technology stack.

  • 04

    Built board-level strategy materials and delivered regular performance updates to executive leadership and board stakeholders.

Go-to-Market & Ecosystem Development

  • 01

    Leveraged my network across fintech, digital assets, and Web3 to build a pipeline of ecosystem partners anchored to feature releases → closed 7 strategic and technical integration partnerships.

  • 02

    Designed and executed joint GTM plans with integration partners, including referral programs and subdomain programs like base.box and eth.box.

  • 03

    Launched drop.box, a domain drops marketing site, to sell premium domains above floor → several sales closed at 3000%+ over floor price, directly attributed to drop.box.

  • 04

    Ran community-led marketing announcements coordinated with each major launch.

Results

  • 50% domain renewal rate (vs. <10% industry norm).

  • 20% growth in domains under management.

  • 7 strategic and technical integration partnerships closed.

  • eth.box: 1,000+ subdomains generated in under 24 hours of launch.

  • drop.box: multiple premium domains sold at 3000%+ over floor price, with sales directly attributed to the drops site.

  • Cut 3DNS-dependent ticket resolution time by 50%.

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