Spaceship

Unbox connects domains, hosting, and email, while Launchpad provides access to products and account tools. The website also lists domain, connection, and transfer management, a communication center, and a security center.⁠[2]

The website identifies Spaceship, Inc. and lists a Phoenix, Arizona address. NamecheapNamecheapNamecheap is a US domain registrar and web services company founded by Richard Kirkendall in 2000. Its products include domains, hosting, email, and security services.Open the full entry introduced the platform in 2023, and Spaceship’s 2026 announcement still identifies Spaceship and Unbox as Namecheap trademarks.⁠[3][4][5]

On August 16, 2023, Namecheap opened Spaceship’s public beta following over 100,000 early registrations. Its design sought to simplify DNS setup, subscriptions, and product connections.⁠[4]

Release notes date passkeys to January 2024 and U2F device authentication to February. The company later reported reaching one million managed domains in June that year.⁠[6][5]

Spaceship launched SellerHub in April 2025. Its documentation described bulk domain imports, fixed prices or starting offers, and negotiations through built-in messaging. The 2025 introduction listed a 5% sales commission.⁠[7][8]

On May 13, 2025, Spaceship introduced Thunderbolt for messaging, voice, and video using a domain-based identity. Its announcement said iOS and Android apps were available and domains held at third-party registrars were supported.⁠[1]

Spaceship Cloud added Hyperlift in October 2025. Its documentation describes connecting a GitHub repository, building and deploying container applications from a Dockerfile, and handling networking, runtime configuration, and SSL.⁠[7][9]

The company’s 2025 review places the Alf AI website-builder beta, Spacemail calendar and mobile apps, and FastVPN launches in November. It also records reaching five million managed domains that month.⁠[7]

Release notes describe domain availability and pricing searches in ChatGPT from January 2026, with registration completed on Spaceship, and an August Terraform provider for domains and DNS. A company post also describes joining Stripe Projects to integrate domain registration into AI-agent project setup.⁠[6][10]

Company data shared on an ICANN public list in April 2026 reported 432,796 phishing tickets across Namecheap and Spaceship in 2025, with 116,871 confirmed. These were combined tickets, sometimes covering multiple domains. Participant Marc Trachtenberg questioned why other reports were unconfirmed and emphasized actionable abuse cases. The discussion was not a regulatory ruling.⁠[11]

Multiple services failed on August 13, 2026. CEO Hillan Klein attributed the outage to storm-related cooling failure at RadiusDC’s Phoenix facility and protective shutdowns. Hosting, EasyWP, email forwarding, and Spacemail were affected; Spaceship.com stayed online. The August 17 update reported restoration and corrected earlier posts that had named PhoenixNAP.⁠[12]

On September 30, 2026, Spaceship announced over ten million managed domains and identified Hillan Klein as CEO. Its claim of record registrar growth was a company assertion.⁠[5]

Richard Kirkendall announced on October 5, 2026 that .si would reach Namecheap and Spaceship the next day, then confirmed its Spaceship launch on October 6. Despite “Super Intelligence” marketing, .si remains Slovenia’s country-code top-level domain.⁠[13][14][15]

The company’s October 9 report gave average ownership of 19.38 domains but a median of one. Customers holding over 1,000 domains represented 0.2% of customers and 67% of active domains. SellerHub had nearly six million listings, about one-third with lease-to-own options, and a reported $2 million top sale. These figures describe Spaceship’s platform, not the global market.⁠[16]

As checked in October 2026, Alf Website Studio describes conversational website generation, editing, and publishing with hosting, domain, and SSL integration. Thunderbolt’s current page presents an AI website receptionist using business-approved knowledge to answer visitors, capture leads, schedule appointments, and hand conversations to people—an evolution from its initial 2025 messaging positioning.⁠[17][18]

Spaceship: Official website: https://www.spaceship.com/ (opens in a new window). Public accounts include X: https://x.com/spaceship (opens in a new window) and LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: https://www.linkedin.com/company/spaceshipcom/ (opens in a new window). They publish product updates, domain-market material, and service information.⁠[2][19][10]

Namecheap: Official website: https://www.namecheap.com/ (opens in a new window). Its 2023 announcement introduced Spaceship as its new domain and website platform.⁠[4]