What Frontyard Cyc does

Frontyard Cyc is a Netherlands-based, privately-held entity with 1–10 employees headquartered in The Hague, and is described externally as a media production platform. However, the input data does not corroborate an active operating business: no products, services, customers, revenue, funding rounds, leadership beyond a creative director (Niels Stoelinga), or partnerships specific to a media-production offering are disclosed. The only observable evidence of activity is the company's primary web property, frontyard.nl, which is currently listed for sale via Nameshift.com — a Rijswijk, Netherlands-based (KvK 88910652) escrow platform that holds buyer funds, manages domain transfer (averaging 24 hours), issues VAT invoices, and supports a broad range of payment methods across 15+ country-localized storefronts.

The underlying technology in evidence is not a media-production stack but Nameshift.com's escrow-based domain transfer service: a transactional infrastructure that releases payment to the seller only upon successful transfer, with a full refund on failure. Frontyard Cyc's role is that of the seller of the domain asset, paying a seller-side commission while buyers pay only the purchase price with no additional fees. There is no disclosed product roadmap, technology platform, or operating moat tied to a media-production offering, and the company's stated short description ("media production platform") is not supported by any first-party operating evidence in the source material. The honest reading is that the entity's identifiable economic activity is the monetization/liquidation of the frontyard.nl domain asset rather than the operation of a media-production business.

Name

Frontyard Cyc

Legal name

Frontyard Cyc

Website

https://frontyard.nl

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Frontyard Cyc is a Netherlands-based private entity whose principal observable activity is the listing of its frontyard.nl domain for sale via Nameshift.com's escrow-based transfer platform; no active media-production products, customers, or revenue are disclosed.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

The Hague

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel

Revenue model

1. Seller-paid commission: Nameshift.com charges a commission to the seller of the domain; buyers pay no additional service fees beyond the purchase price (buy-now or agreed offer). One-time transactional revenue per domain sale rather than recurring.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Frontyard Cyc is identified in firmographic data as a media production platform. Public-facing details about specific deliverables, formats, production workflows, or service packages are not available; the company's web presence (frontyard.nl) currently displays a Nameshift.com domain-for-sale landing page rather than an active service offering.

Product overview

No products or services for Frontyard Cyc are described in the source data. The domain frontyard.nl resolves to a Nameshift.com domain-for-sale landing page that offers escrow-based domain transfer services (free for buyers, average 24-hour turnaround, multi-currency/multi-locale support), with no Frontyard Cyc-specific product, module, or feature portfolio present in the available content.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Average domain transfer time of 24 hours
• +1 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Nameshift.comcoreTechnology or IntegrationNameshift.com operates the escrow-based purchase and transfer infrastructure for the frontyard.nl domain sale. The service holds buyer funds, coordinates transfer with the seller (average 24-hour turnover), issues VAT invoices, supports multiple payment methods, and only releases payment to the seller upon successful transfer (full refund if transfer fails). This is a commercial/platform relationship where Nameshift.com provides the transaction infrastructure to the domain seller.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Atom.com: Marketplace specializing in premium, brandable short-word domains. Comparable as a direct competitor channel for selling high-quality word domains like frontyard.nl.
• Dan.com: Domain marketplace and escrow platform that lists, brokers, and safely transfers premium domains to buyers globally. Directly comparable to the Nameshift.com infrastructure currently used to sell frontyard.nl, and the most relevant peer for the company's only observable activity.
• Squadhelp: Marketplace for brandable domains, naming contests, and trademark research. Comparable as an alternative venue for monetizing a short, brandable .nl domain such as frontyard.nl.
• Escrow.com: General-purpose online escrow service used widely for domain and high-value digital asset transfers. Directly comparable to the Nameshift.com escrow mechanism the seller is using for frontyard.nl.
• Undeveloped (now part of Dan.com): Boutique marketplace for premium brandable domains that has been folded into Dan.com. Comparable as a niche peer competing for the same buyer pool of brandable-domain acquirers.
• BrandBucket: Curated marketplace for brandable business names and domains. Comparable as a peer venue targeting entrepreneurs and SMBs seeking memorable, ready-made brand names.

Broad incumbents

• Afternic: GoDaddy-owned domain marketplace that distributes listings across the GoDaddy registrar network. Comparable as an established, high-traffic channel for liquidating domain assets.
• Sedo: One of the world's largest domain marketplaces, offering brokerage, escrow-style transfers, and parking services. Comparable as an incumbent alternative channel for monetizing a single premium domain like frontyard.nl.
• GoDaddy Auctions: Domain auction and marketplace operated by GoDaddy, covering expired, closeout, and premium inventory. Comparable as an incumbent, high-volume alternative for liquidating a domain.

Others

• MarkMonitor (Newfold Digital): Corporate-domain management and brand-protection firm under Newfold Digital. Comparable as an adjacent ecosystem participant for entities holding a single brandable domain and considering brand-protection or portfolio strategies.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/frontyard-cyc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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