Tag Archives: Demand Media

Fri 5th February 2010
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Bringing Market Efficiency to Content: What’s a Written Word Worth? - Marketplaces find the correct price for paying for content production. Earlier this week I wrote two stories about Demand Media, a company that has found a way to make money with online content. I noted that the company will have a hard time getting fair press coverage since many journalists probably feel threatened by its model. Here’s one example, aptly named “Demand Media Can Go To Hell“. In the post, author Tony Silber complains about what he calls Demand ... read more ...
Wed 3rd February 2010
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In Demand: How Demand Media is Profiting from Web Content - Inside Demand Media’s scalable and profitable online content business. [This is part one of a two part story on Demand Media.] I have a confession to make. Last decade I made a lot of money producing crappy content. It started with systems that auto-generated thousand page web sites by scraping search engines. This worked great for a while; at one point I was making over a thousand dollars a day from placing Google Adsense on my web sites. I knew it wouldn’t ... read more ...
 
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In Demand (Part 2): How a Domain Business Can Benefit from Demand Media - What Demand Media can do for the domain name business. [This is the second part of a two-part story on Demand Media. See part one here.] For many years, Demand Media has been a mystery to the domain name industry. It’s a big player, for sure. It snapped up eNom and then BulkRegister, making it the second largest domain name registrar in the world. Its registrars have 10 million domains under management, and Demand Media owns a nice portfolio of its own. The ... read more ...
Thu 29th October 2009
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Inside Demand Media’s Content Machine - A look inside Demand Media’s automated content machine. Ever since Demand Media launched, a lot of people have wondered how it actually makes money (other than through its eNom division). A reader just sent a fascinating article to me from Wired that explains its content machine and money making ability: using algorithms and a freelance army to churn out vast, but low quality content. It works a lot like how domainers decide which domains to develop and how to ... read more ...
 
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Silicon Alley Insider Values GoDaddy during $1.4 Billion, Oversee.net during $1 Billion - A number of domain name companies land on valuable start up lists. But SAI didn’t do its homework. Silicon Alley Insider has released its latest list of the world’s most valuable startups, which includes a number of domain name companies. But I question the validity of some of its assumptions because of some glaring errors, such as saying that Oversee.net hasn’t taken any outside funding. The top domain name company on the list is GoDaddy at #9. The valuation ... read more ...
Mon 10th August 2009
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eNom Launches RichContent Product - Domain registrar offers RichContent system to customers and resellers. Domain name registrar eNom has released RichContent, a new content widget system for individuals to add content to their web sites. The system is built by Pluck, which eNom parent company Demand Media acquired in 2008. RichContent offers various widgets users can copy and paste into their web sites to pull related content and links from various blogs and news sources. Major web sites already ... read more ...
Mon 20th July 2009
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Demand Media Buys Demand.com - Parent company of eNom enters into agreement to buy Demand.com domain name. The domain name Demand.com is in demand. Demand Media, parent company of eNom and NameJet, has entered into an agreement to purchase the domain name Demand.com for corporate branding purposes. The sale was announced today in a press release from the seller inter123 Corporation. The sale price was not released. Inter123 was founded by Jeffrey Peterson, an entrepreneur mostly known for launching ... read more ...
Wed 27th May 2009
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Demand Media Awarded Patent for Tiered Domain Name Registrations - The return of domain name tasting? Demand Media, parent company of eNom, has been awarded United States Patent 7539774 for “Method for domain name registration and a corresponding apparatus”. The patent application was filed in 2005 and appears to be targeted toward domain monetization of low traffic domains. The idea would be for the registry, such as VeriSign (NSDQ: VRSN), to offer domain registrations at different prices but with different rights. For example, ... read more ...
Wed 20th May 2009
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Battle Erupts Between Domain Registries and Registrars - Existing registries fight registrars over registry-registrar separation. Registries: In this corner we have three registry providers, Public Interest Registry, Afilias, and NeuStar. They provide the backend and management of domain names such as .org, .biz, and .info, that are sold to customers by registrars. Registrars: In this corner we have domain name registrars hoping to profit from the release of new top level domain names. Issue: Until now, there have been ... read more ...
Thu 7th May 2009
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Demand Media to ICANN: Hurry Up - Company one of few to suggest IRT timeline is OK. Demand Media has been transparent about its desire to launch new top level domain names and to move the process along quickly. So it doesn’t come as any surprise that it wants ICANN to push forward through recommendations from the Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT) in a swift fashion. Most began started their comments to IRT by complaining about a short (about 1 week) comment period for IRT’s drastic ... read more ...
Wed 11th March 2009
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Domain Name Industry Acquisition Watch - 2009 could include more mergers, acquisitions, and outright closings. Domain name companies including registrars, parking companies, and portfolio holders are considering their strategic options in 2009. Domain Name Wire has learned that Dark Blue Sea (ASX: DBS) has been shopping its services businesses, including Fabulous parking and registration. Dark Blue Sea CEO Richard Moore wouldn’t comment directly on what the company is considering, but he did refer me ... read more ...
Fri 19th December 2008
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Demand Media Wants to Introduce New Domain Names - Demand Media wants to offer new top level domain names using its eNom registrar. The owner of the world’s second largest domain registrar, eNom, plans to apply to ICANN to offer new top level domains. That’s the only plausible assumption based on the company’s one-sided comments to ICANN about the proposed new gTLDs. The comments were filed a couple days late, but are very thorough and cover every module. The company was in favor of every provision that will ... read more ...
Thu 20th March 2008
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Demand Media Lands in Austin - Media company holds party for its three Austin ventures. Social media and domain name company Demand Media, which owns domain registrar eNom, held a party in Austin last night for its three local ventures: Pluck, which it recently bought for $70 million, Livestrong.com, a partnership with the Lance Armstrong Foundation, and ExpertVillage. The event was held at downtown nightspot Six, which is co-owned by Lance Armstrong. (Armstrong and Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt ... read more ...