EMPIRE / About

A small company that answers the phone.

EMPIRE is built and operated by CryptCode LLC, a registered United States company. There is no call centre, no offshore support queue, and no layer of account managers between you and the people who write the code.

Two shop owners laughing among rails and stock boxes
Two workers packing orders into cartons
A seller working at a monitor beside stacked parcels

What EMPIRE is

EMPIRE is a single monthly subscription that covers the three things a small business actually needs to exist online: a domain registered in your name, a website you can edit yourself, and a store that can take real payments.

Most platforms sell you one of those and upsell the rest. We bundle them because splitting them up is how a $29 plan quietly becomes $89.

Why we built it

Because the gap between "I should really get a website" and actually having one is enormous, and almost all of that gap is technical busywork nobody signed up for. Domains, DNS records, SSL certificates, hosting, checkout integration — none of it is the business you wanted to run.

EMPIRE automates every one of those steps at signup. What's left is the part that's actually yours: what you sell, what you say, and what it looks like.

How we operate

We are deliberately small. That has real trade-offs and we'd rather state them than hide them:

  • You get a person, not a ticket. The number on this site rings the people who built the platform.
  • We move fast on fixes. A bug reported in the morning is often deployed the same day.
  • We're not a large company. We don't have 24-hour phone coverage or a field sales team. If that matters to you, a bigger platform may genuinely fit you better.

What we promise

  • Your domain is yours. Registered in your name. If you leave, we release it — see domain ownership.
  • No contracts. Month to month. Cancel from the dashboard or by phone.
  • We never hold your money. Sales settle through Stripe directly to your bank.
  • Domains at cost. We pass through registration pricing with no markup.

Talk to us

Before you buy, after you buy, or if you're just trying to work out whether this is right for you at all — call or text 402-206-4827, or email [email protected].

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