YES4 (Youth Education for Success)

Name

YES4 (Youth Education for Success)

Website

https://yes4.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Voting Domain Names is a domain leasing business serving political campaigns, operating since 2008 with a portfolio of over 1,000 political domain names leased to more than 100 campaigns via direct phone contact.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Domain Leasing Services

NAICS

Rental and Leasing Services (532)

SIC

Patent Owners & Lessors (6794)

akta.pro primary industry

Domain Names & Digital Identity NFT Marketplaces (FSADANAK)

Keywords

• Political domain leasing
• Campaign domain names
• Domain portfolio management
• Electoral web presence
• Political campaign domains

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Personnel

Revenue model

1. Domain Name Leasing: The company leases political domain names to political campaigns. This is a recurring revenue model where campaigns pay to use domain names for their political campaigns. The leasing model generates revenue through periodic payments for domain usage rights.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

YES4 (per source content) operates as the largest domain leasing business in the political campaign space, offering political domain names from a curated portfolio of over 1,000 political domain names available for lease to political candidates and campaigns. The service enables campaigns to use established political web addresses for campaign messaging and outreach through recurring lease arrangements rather than purchasing domains outright.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Political Domain Name Leasing

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators2 records

Broad incumbents

• Sedo: Largest global domain marketplace for buying, selling, and parking domains. Comparable as a domain-monetization platform, though it serves all verticals and uses a marketplace model rather than direct leasing.
• Afternic: Domain name aftermarket and brokerage network operated by Namecheap. Comparable as a major venue for secondary domain transactions, competing for premium-domain monetization activity.
• GoDaddy: Dominant domain registrar and web services platform. Comparable as the primary channel through which political campaigns could alternatively register domains directly, and as a broader incumbent in the domain ecosystem.
• Namecheap: Major independent domain registrar and hosting provider. Comparable as a low-cost alternative channel for political campaigns to register domains directly rather than lease from a specialist portfolio.
• Identity Digital: Operator of a large portfolio of new-gTLD domain extensions. Comparable as an incumbent domain-portfolio operator monetizing digital naming assets at scale, though at the registry rather than retail-lease layer.

Direct peers

• Undeveloped: Curated marketplace and portfolio for premium domains. Comparable as a premium-domain monetization platform targeting buyers seeking turnkey web identities — overlapping with the political-domain leasing value proposition.
• HugeDomains: Curated portfolio of premium domains held for resale. Highly comparable business model — accumulating and monetizing a large inventory of high-value domain names — though it targets outright sale rather than recurring leasing.
• Saw.com: Premium domain brokerage and portfolio operator. Comparable as a focused premium-domain business that brokers and monetizes high-value digital names, though oriented toward sales rather than recurring leases.
• VPN.com: Premium digital asset leasing business that leases premium domains (e.g., VPN.com) to operators in a specific vertical. Closest direct peer by business model — leasing a single high-value domain to a vertical customer base on recurring terms, mirroring the political-domain leasing approach.

Emerging players

• BrandBucket: Marketplace for premium brandable domain names and AI-generated business names. Comparable as a curated inventory of premium digital assets monetized to niche customer segments, though focused on branding rather than politics.

Market position

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/yes4

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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