Tag Archives: Demand Media

Mon 14th December 2015
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Michael Blend – DNW Podcast #62 - How Michael Blend finally struck gold with domain names. The domain name opportunity was staring Michael Blend in the face on two occasions, but he missed it. The third time around he finally pounced on the opportunity…and it paid off. Blend developed the domain parking service HotKeys and acquired some of the world’s best domain names, then sold the business to Demand Media. Hear his story, what he sees for the future of domain names, and learn about TopCoin, the “frequent flyer program” ... read more ...
Mon 11th August 2014
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Demand Media Names New CEO Shares Sink; Now Down 20% From Last Week - Demand Media, Inc, named one-time Ticketmaster Chief Executive Sean Moriarty as its new CEO and the market didn’t like the news sending shares down over 8% to close at $8.97 a share. You may recall it was just a week ago when Demand split off its Rightside division it traded as high as $11.10. Demand also said today it acquired Saatchi Online, which runs online art gallery Saatchi Art, for $17 million. Moriarty had been CEO of Saatchi Art since August 2013, and was CEO of Ticketmaster from 2007 ... read more ...
Tue 15th July 2014
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SeekingAlpha Issues Brutal Opinion On Demand Media/Rightside: “Titanic Will Hit The Iceberg” - SeekingAlpha.com published what can only be described as a brutal assessment on shares of Demand Media, Inc last yesterday after Demand said it would spin off its Rightside division into a separate public company on August 1st as well as on Rightside. The post entitled; Demand Media: Titanic Will Hit The Iceberg Here is are the conclusions from the article: “eHow.com and Livestrong.com continue to decline in page views and will have lower EBITDA in Q2 2014. Rightside reported negative EBITDA in ... read more ...
Mon 14th July 2014
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Demand Media spin-off of Rightside set for Aug 1 - Rightside’s debut as its own publicly-traded company is imminent. Demand Media plans to complete the spin-off of its domain name business on August 1. Rightside will become its own public company on that date. It will trade on the NASDAQ under the symbol “name”. Demand Media shareholders will receive one Rightside share for each five shares of Demand Media stock they own. Rightside owns a number of domain name businesses covering the entire spectrum of the ... read more ...
Tue 20th May 2014
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If Your Looking For A Generic .Democrat, They Are In Short Supply & Carry Premium Prices - I was going though some generic .Democrat new gTLD domain names yesterday to see what premium generic domains are available for Preregistrations as the extension goes live tomorrow. Its expected that many candidates will grab their .Democrat domain name when running for office. However when it comes to generic domain names .Democrat domains are either not available as being on the collision list or being reserved by the registry or pretty damn expensive for domain investors as they carry premium ... read more ...
Thu 8th May 2014
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Demand Reports: Registrar Revenue Up 11% But eHow & Content Continues To Decline - Demand Media, Inc. (DMD reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2014 today after the market closed Its our personal opinion that the sooner  Demand can spin off Rightside from the rest of the mess the better. Rightside operates the back end of all Donuts new gTLD extensions, owns 107 new gTLD’s with Donuts, Owns Enom the 2nd largest domain registrar on the planet as well as Name.com another top 10 domain name registrar. The eHow business I never like. Anytime you rely ... read more ...
Tue 15th April 2014
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Can New gTLDs Save Demand Media ? - Scott Hopkins wrote a piece on Seeking Alpha today stating that the new gtlds were the last chance for Demand Media. Demand Media has been languishing in the stock market for awhile now. The stock is down 25 % this year and is down 46 % over a one year time period. Demand Media owns Name.com and Enom and that is where Hopkins believes the magic has to happen. He is not a believer in the Demand Media web properties such as eHow and LiveStrong.com.  He refers to these sites as digital sharecropping, ... read more ...
Mon 3rd March 2014
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Web.com Officially Announces The Acquisition of SnapNames.com - Web.com Group, Inc. (WWWW) officially announced today that it has acquired SnapNames from KeyDrive S.A. Shares are down over 2% in early trading today. The questions yet to be answered is how will the acquisition effect where expiring domain names from Web.com registrars, including NetworkSolutions.com and Register.com will be going. All expired domains of Netsol where going to SnapNames.com until it was acquired by Oversee.net, the company that sold SnapNames.com to Keysystems. Once Oversee.net ... read more ...
Wed 26th February 2014
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Demand Media Fall Under $5 A Share Down 10% - Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) released its earnings for the 4th Quarter of 2013 as well 2013 numbers and the market apparently didn’t like them. Demand Media, Inc. is hovering around $5 a share down about 10% from the closing price last night hitting an intraday low of $4.95 Demand has a 52 week high of $9.75 At its current price, Demand’s market cap is $459 Million dollars. Demand Media, Inc, is intending to spin off its registrar, registry and new gTLD business into a new public company Rightside.       Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media’s Parking Revenue/Domain Sales Down 33% In 2013 & They Are Confused On gTLD Numbers - In the earnings call yesterday Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) had some interesting details about the financials they released for the 4th quarter of 2013 and for the full year 2013 and some interesting statements which demonstrate they are somewhat confused by the new gTLD numbers. First for the results: “In aftermarket services revenue, which represents premium domain sales and advertising revenue from our Owned Operated third-party park domains of approximately $8 million and decreased 33% year-over-year ... read more ...
Tue 25th February 2014
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Demand Reports: Registrar Revenue Increases 12% in 4Q and 10% Year-over-Year - Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2013. Q4 2013 Financial Summary: Total revenue ex-TAC declined 3% year-over-year, with 12% year-over-year growth in Registrar revenue offset by an 11% decline in Content Media revenue ex-TAC. Excluding the acquisitions of Society6 and Name.com, total revenue ex-TAC decreased 15%. Registrar revenue grew 12% year-over-year, primarily due to the addition of Name.com, which was acquired ... read more ...
Wed 5th February 2014
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Rightside Announces They Have Over 40 Registrars On Board To Carry Their New gTLD’s - Rightside™, the domain name services business of Demand Media (NYSE: DMD), today announced new partnerships with many of the world’s leading registrars to bring its portfolio of new Top Level Domains (TLDs) to market. More than 40 registrars – including GoDaddy, Web.com, 11 and Host Europe, and Rightside affiliates eNom and Name.com have signed registrar agreements with Rightside Registry, creating an expansive and global distribution network. This agreement allows each registrar partner the ... read more ...
Mon 13th January 2014
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Demand Media Files With SEC To Spin Off Domain Registries and Registrars Into Rightside - Demand Media, Inc. (DMD), a leading media and domain name services company, today announced that its newly formed wholly owned subsidiary, Rightside Group, Ltd. (“Rightside”), has filed a Form 10 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the planned spin-off of Rightside as an independent publicly traded company. “The filing marks an important step reached on Rightside’s path to becoming an independent company that will be one of the world’s ... read more ...
 
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Donuts assigns rights to .futbol and .reviews tip turn domains to Demand Media’s Rightside - Rightside has two more top level domain names in its new TLD portfolio. Demand Media filed documents with the SEC today related to its spinoff of Rightside, and also published an investor presentation. The disclosures show that Donuts has assigned rights for two new top level domain names, .fubol and .reviews, to Rightside’s United TLD. These domains were applied for under Donuts’ subsidiaries Atomic Falls, LLC and Extra Cover, LLC, respectively. The two domains ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media’s Rightside reveals numbers and gamble on new TLDs in SEC filing - Rightside’s growth is highly dependent on the success of new top level domain names. Demand Media is spinning off its domain name business as a new publicly traded company, Rightside. Today the company filed documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that give the public much more detail on the business. Having reviewed the documents for much of this morning, one thing became very clear: a bet on Rightside is a bet on new top level domain names. ... read more ...
Tue 7th January 2014
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Republican National Committee loses quarrel over .republican - RNC loses objection against Demand Media’s application to run .republican top level domain name. The Republican National Committee (RNC) has lost a community objection it filed against Demand Media’s application to run the .republican top level domain name. The RNC, which uses the domain name gop.com, is behind an application for the .gop domain name. This case is really interesting, as panelist Brigitte Stern provided a very detailed analysis of the language ... read more ...
Tue 31st December 2013
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2013 Top Stories: Demand Media to spin off domain business - Rightside will make some noise in 2014. Demand Media has had its share of ups and downs since it was founded in 2006. 2013 was mostly a year of downs for its content business, which includes eHow and Livestrong.com, thanks to Google’s search engine changes. But the domain name business is still holding its own, and it’s hoping to capitalize on the introduction of new top level domain names in 2014. In February, Demand Media announced that it was planning to spin ... read more ...
Wed 4th December 2013
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Variety.com Publishes; Epic Fail: The Rise and Fall of Demand Media -   Variety.com just published a cover story on Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) and its less than flattering. The article entitled Epic Fail: The Rise and Fall of Demand Media starts out: “Take note, Twitter: Not every tech company has a happy ending after a ballyhooed IPO. Just look at Demand Media, the Santa Monica, Calif.-based firm some thought would revolutionize content production. Not long after the company went public in January 2011, its market capitalization soared to more than $2 billion, ... read more ...
Thu 7th November 2013
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Demand Reports: Media business Negatively Impacted by Declines in Search Referral Traffic & Advertising Demand -  Demand Media, Inc. (DMD), reported its earnings after the market closed today. Demand’s earnings were in line with estimates, but revenue was above estimates. However it seems like Demand is fighting a losing battle on the eHow front as changes in Google search algorithm is negatively effecting that part of the business. For Demand in My opinion the spin off of the domain service business can’t happen soon enough “This quarter, our media business was negatively impacted by declines in search ... read more ...
 
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Domain parking clawback dings Demand Media earnings, and initial demeanour during Rightside numbers - Company hit with parking clawback from a previous quarter. Ask any domain parking company about their top frustrations, and clawbacks will be high on the list. Basically, their upstream ad partner will clawback previously paid revenue based on traffic quality. This often happens after the parking customer has paid its partner. These clawbacks can apparently be quite big, as evidenced in today’s Demand Media earnings call. Speaking about a tough third quarter, Demand ... read more ...
Tue 5th November 2013
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Demand Media’s Domain Services Spinoff Is Rightside.co & Names Taryn Naidu As CEO -     Demand Media, Inc. (NYSE: DMD),  that it has selected the name Rightside Group, Ltd. (“Rightside”) for the spun off domain services business. The company is going with the domain name Rightside.co. Taryn Naidu, who currently serves as Demand Media’s Executive Vice President of Domain Services, will become the CEO and a Director of the newly formed domain services company that is proposed to be spun off from Demand Media. Rightside will include the domain name registrars eNom, Name.com, ... read more ...
 
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I was right: Demand Media spinoff to be called RightSide - Rightside is right. Last week I wrote about how signs were pointing to Demand Media calling its domain name spinoff Rightside. Today the company formally announced that the name will indeed by Rightside. Rightside Group, Ltd. will encompass Demand Media’s current domain name services (eNom, Name.com, United TLD, NameJet) as well as its large portfolio of domain names. The publicly traded company will be led by Taryn Naidu, currently Demand Media’s Executive Vice ... read more ...
Mon 28th October 2013
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Demand Media to call spinoff Rightside? - Me thinks that DemandMedia *may* have a problem. The guy that owns Rightside.com filed a trademark application more than a year before DemandMedia ,unless im missing something (like a brain ??); CTM-ONLINE – Detailed trade mark information [New basic search] [New advanced search] [Modify Search] [Refine search (Disabled)] [List of results] [Access to file] [Trade mark Detail (Disabled)] [Login to MYPAGE] [Back to MYPAGE (Disabled)] [Save search to my page (Disabled)] ... read more ...
Thu 24th October 2013
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Report: Demand Media Lays Off All 15 Members Of R & D Unit - Variety.com, is reporting that just days after Richard Rosenblatt resigned from Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) as its CEO and Chairman of the Board,  all 15 members of the research and development unit at the company were laid off, including chief innovation officer Byron Reese. Demand reps did not respond to repeated requests for comment to Variety.com “Reese was seen as the architect of Demand’s SEO approach, which has been widely derided as turning the company into a “content farm” that flooded ... read more ...
Tue 15th October 2013
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Demand Media Shares Hit 52 Week Low After Rosenblatt Resigns - Shares of Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) hit a 52 week low today closing at $5.34 down almost 9% in the first day of trading since Richard Rosenblatt resigned as CEO and Chairman Share hit inter-day low of $5.31. Demand Media, Inc. is now over almost 50% off its 52 week high of $10.34 Volume today was over double of its  90 day average. Demand Media, Inc. now has a market cap of $466 million. Demand went public at $17 a share.     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...