Company Facts
Industries Served
Core Services
- Domain registration, transfers, and renewals
- Custom and Realnames email
- Hover Connect
What They Do
Hover is a domain name registrar that helps you register and manage domains and set up professional email that matches your brand. It’s known for simple tools, free WHOIS privacy, and support from real people.
About the Company
Hover launched in 2009 when Tucows, one of the first ICANN-accredited domain registrars, combined three of its existing domain services into one customer-facing brand. Today, Hover operates as the retail domain and email arm of Tucows, which is headquartered in Toronto.
The problem it solves is one most business builders underestimate. Your domain and email are the foundation of your professional identity, yet many registrars bury them in cluttered dashboards and constant upsells. This keeps that foundation simple, secure, and easy to manage.
Why We Recommend Hover
When you go Fractional, you’re not just a senior leader anymore. You’re a business. And the first signal of a credible business is often the smallest one: the domain on your website and the address in your email signature.
A you@gmail.com address can quietly undercut an executive-level proposal. This tool makes it easy to secure a domain for your practice, set up matching professional email, and connect everything to the website tool of your choice, without needing technical help. For Fractionals who want their business setup done right the first time, it’s one of the cleanest places to start.
What They Offer
- Domain Registration, Transfers, and Renewals – Search and register from more than 300 domain extensions, transfer existing domains in, and manage renewals in one place. Useful for securing your practice name, your personal name, and any offer-specific domains.
- Custom and Realnames Email – Get a professional email address that matches your domain, or a firstname@lastname address for a personal-brand touch. Accessible through webmail or your preferred email app.
- Hover Connect – Link your domain to the service that hosts your website in a few clicks. You choose where your site lives, and your domain stays independent from it.
What Makes Them Different
- Privacy and security included: Every domain comes with free WHOIS privacy, which keeps your personal contact details out of public domain records, plus two-factor authentication for your account.
- Real human support: You can reach support by phone, online ticket, or live chat, which matters when a DNS change is standing between you and a client launch.
- Simple, focused tools: Concentrates on domains and email and keeps the experience clean, so you can manage everything without wading through unrelated add-ons.
How It Helps the Hey CMO Community
- For aspiring and new Fractionals: Lock in your practice name and your personal name before someone else does, and set up professional email before you send your first proposal. It’s a small step that makes you look established from day one.
- For established Fractionals: Keep your domains and email in one place while your website evolves. Because Hover Connect keeps your domain separate from your site host, you can rebuild or switch website tools later without disrupting your email or your brand address.
- For Fractionals building authority: Register domains for a signature offer, a newsletter, a podcast, or a lead magnet landing page, and manage them alongside your main practice domain.
- For Fractional CTOs and CMOs who support client web projects: Offers partner and reseller options for people who manage domains on behalf of customers.
Hey CMO Customer Feedback
Been using hover for almost a decade, both professionally and personally. Excellent service, really really good site / interface.
-Alex Proto
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