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
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50% domain renewal rate (vs. <10% industry norm).
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20% growth in domains under management.
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7 strategic and technical integration partnerships closed.
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eth.box: 1,000+ subdomains generated in under 24 hours of launch.
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drop.box: multiple premium domains sold at 3000%+ over floor price, with sales directly attributed to the drops site.
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Cut 3DNS-dependent ticket resolution time by 50%.
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