Tag Archives: Enom

Tue 7th May 2013
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How Demand Media sees the domain name business - Domain business positioned as end-to-end domain provider, spin-out on track. Demand Media just concluded its first quarter earnings conference call, and much of the talk centered on new TLDs. The company is working to spin out its domain name business into a separate business and expects that to happen by the end of the year or in early 2014. CEO Richard Rosenblatt explained that the company wants to be an end-to-end provider of domain services. The group will continue ... read more ...
Wed 24th April 2013
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eNom Collects More Than 2 Million Expressions Of Interest on New gTLD’s - According to enom.com its “New TLD Watchlist module has collected more than two million expressions of interest for domains to be registered with the new TLDs, in just  nine months In the more than two million Watchlist submissions received over the course of nine months, the three new domain extensions of greatest interest are: 1) .Web 2) .Shop 3) .Hotel  From a category viewpoint, the most expressions of interest have been in the areas of:  1) Services (for example:.Attorney)(for example:.Expert)(for ... read more ...
Thu 21st February 2013
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.Org Project 94 kicks off subsequent month - Short .org domains go on auction block beginning next month. Next month .org registry Public Interest Registry (PIR) will begin auctioning off domain names as part of Project 94. Project 94 is the marketing name for releasing 94 one and two character .org domain names that have been reserved since the top level domain was introduced in 1985. A handful of the 94 domain names have already been allocated to users (such as country code owners) and the remaining 85 will ... read more ...
Tue 19th February 2013
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Demand Media considers spinning off domain name business - Domain business might become its own company. Demand Media, parent company of eNom and Name.com, is considering splitting its business in two. The move would see its domain assets and online media business separated. The domain business would have annual revenues of $150 million+ with gross margins around 20%, and the media business would be $250 million+ with 30%+ margins. Michael Blend will be working on the process of spinning out the domain business. While the ... read more ...
Fri 12th October 2012
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Poll: How most will 1 and 2 minute .org domains sell for? - What will domains sell for at auction? This week Public Interest Registry, the non-profit that runs .org, announced auctions for 85 one and two character .org domain names. The domains will be auctioned through Go Daddy and eNom in what the company dubs “Project94″. Although basically anyone can bid on the domains, PIR’s pitch to ICANN to release the short domains said that bidders will have to be “committed to building out the domain name with a sound marketing ... read more ...
Wed 10th October 2012
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Godaddy & Enom To Sell 94 One & Two Character .ORG Registry Owned Domain Names - Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .ORG domain, today announced the release of 94 previously unregistered one- to two- character .ORG addresses, Through a partnership with GoDaddy and eNom, the initiative – called “Project94” – gives organizations the unprecedented opportunity to enhance their brand with one of the shortest and perhaps most memorable domain names available. These domains also carry the inherent trust and reliability for which the .ORG domain is known. What’s ... read more ...
Wed 13th June 2012
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Demand Media’s 26 TLDs strike a armed forces, democrats, and republicans - Demand Media applies for 26 domain names — and some of them are very interesting. Publicly traded Demand Media, parent company of domain registrar eNom, has applied for 26 top level domain names through (what appears to be) a subsidiary called United TLD Holdco Ltd. The company also has a deal to share in up to 107 top level domains applied for by Donuts, Inc. Demand Media’s list is interesting. Of course, it didn’t want to conflict with Donuts, Inc. on any ... read more ...
Mon 4th June 2012
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Google creates domain corroboration easier with eNom and Go Daddy - eNom and Go Daddy customers can verify ownership from web based interface. Google has just introduced a speedier way to verify your domain ownership for use with certain Google tools. You have to verify that you own a particular domain name in order to use some Google services with the domain, e.g. seeing search queries for your web site in Webmaster Tools. Until now the process has been kind of difficult for people without technical skills. The new service allows ... read more ...
Tue 8th May 2012
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Demand Media invests $18 million in new TLDs - That’s a whole lotta top level domains. [Updated with comment from Demand Media and from investor call] Demand Media, parent company of eNom, announced today that it has invested $18 million into new top level domain names. It’s not clear if this is for application fees only: In April 2012, Demand Media invested $18 million in pursuit of its generic Top Level Domain (“gTLD”) initiative, which it believes represents a complementary strategic growth opportunity ... read more ...
Tue 31st May 2011
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Latest New TLD Applicant Guidebook Still Disses Go Daddy, Demand Media - Companies still fall victim to anti-cybersquatting rule for new TLD applicants. The latest (but certainly not final) version of the new top level domain name guidebook still includes a provision that, at least by the spirit of the clause, would prevent Go Daddy and Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) from applying for new top level domain names. Section 1.2.1 of the May 20 release (large pdf) includes a laundry list of reasons why an applicant would be barred from registering ... read more ...
Thu 24th February 2011
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Demand Media Reports Q4 Results - Demand Media results shed light on revenue sharing, eNom results. Earlier this week Demand Media reported fourth quarter results. The company eked out a small profit in the quarter, but expects to return to losses going forward. You can read the complete details here, but here are some interesting numbers: Revenue Sharing: In Q4 its network of customer web sites (which would include parked pages) generated 3.866 million billion page views with an RPM of $3.11. ... read more ...
Thu 13th January 2011
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Will You Buy Shares in Demand Media? - Company sets flotation price range. A large domain name company is getting ready to go public. Will you get in on the action? Demand Media, which owns eNom, has set an expected price per share of $14-$16. It plans to sell 4.5 million shares while existing shareholders hope to offload 3 million shares. The company also released preliminary, unaudited numbers for Q4 2010. In the last quarter of the year it grossed between $71.5 million and $73.5 million, a 31% increase ... read more ...
Fri 17th December 2010
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Afternic Premium Now Works with eNom and Moniker - Afternic “turns on” its two new partners, giving domain name owners access to a powerful sales network. Yesterday I wrote about my success with Go Daddy Premium Listings. The only downside to the service is that your domain names have to be at Go Daddy. But there’s good news for domainers who want to get similar reach for domains that are currently at Moniker and eNom — those two registrars are now active with Afternic’s Premium listing service. What This ... read more ...
Thu 9th December 2010
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Demand Media Demands Three-Strikes Rethink - By Kevin Murphy Demand Media has asked ICANN to reconsider an anti-cybersquatting provision in the new top-level domain Applicant Guidebook that may ban the company from running a TLD. ICANN will do background checks on the companies applying for TLDs and their officers. If they are found to have lost three UDRP decisions in the last four years, their applications will be rejected. Demand Media, which owns eNom, calls this “draconian”, saying that three UDRP losses ... read more ...
Tue 23rd November 2010
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Zuccarini Case Against NameJet, NetSol, et al Moved to Virginia - Court transfers lawsuit to Virginia. In a move that may have been expected by some observers, John Zuccarini’s lawsuit against NameJet, Network Solutions, eNom, and VeriSign has been transferred to the Eastern District of Virginia. The case stems from some of John Zuccarini’s domain names that were transferred to a receiver after a cybersquatting judgment against him. The receiver let some of the domain names expire and they were subsequently auctioned off on ... read more ...
Thu 23rd September 2010
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Tomorrow is a Big Day for New Top Level Domain Names - Big issue on the table at ICANN retreat. In about 24 hours the ICANN Board of Directors will kick off a retreat. It’s not an official board meeting, but it’s anticipated that the two day retreat will finalize an important issue: registry/registrar separation. A lot is at stake in this decision. Millions of dollars for the stakeholders. Until now a registry hasn’t been able to own a registrar and (technically) vice-versa. Afilias is owned by a number of registrars, ... read more ...
Wed 11th August 2010
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HostExploit Exploits Demand Media’s IPO Filing - HostExploit report generates more questions than answers. I just finished reading HostExploit’s report about Demand Media and its domain name registration business (eNom). Whenever I read a report like this, I try to think about the motives of the report’s authors. In this case, it’s clear that HostExploit wanted to rush something out to piggyback on the buzz of Demand Media’s S-1 filing to go public. When I see punctuation errors in a research report, ... read more ...
Fri 6th August 2010
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eNom Uses Domain Lookups to Decide What to Register for Itself - Looking up potential domains at eNom? The company uses that data in many ways. [UPDATED] Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt has referred to the data from eNom and its value to the company before, but its newly filed S-1 explains the value succinctly. It uses the data not only for its content business, but also to determine which domain names to acquire for its own portfolio: Proprietary Data. In providing registration services for over 10 million domain names, ... read more ...
Fri 4th June 2010
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Rosenblatt: We Love eNom for a Data - eNom brings in revenue — but also important data — for Demand Media. Yesterday Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt discussed his business at the All Things D conference. When describing the business, he noted that there are essentially two sides: domains and content. But what was particularly interesting about the domains side is the value it brings to the company. Sure, eNom brings in recurring revenue. But beyond the money is the data: The third reason we ... read more ...
Wed 19th May 2010
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eNom Announces .Com Price Increases - Here come the price increase notices. It’s that time of year again, when domain name registrars send out notices to their customers about .com price increases. We actually got a reprieve last year as VeriSign didn’t increase prices. But they’re back this year, to the extent allowed: 7% for .com and 10% for .net at the wholesale level. eNom sent a notice to its customers today with .com increases of 55 cents across the board effective July 1: Tier / OLD Tier ... read more ...
Thu 22nd April 2010
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.Tel Price Drop – $2.99 during eNom - eNom offers promotional pricing on domain. If you’ve been sitting on the sidelines for the .tel top level domain name, your patience may have been rewarded: eNom is now offering the domains for only $2.99 per year under promotional pricing. .tel domain names don’t function like normal top level domains. Instead, it’s sort of like a business card on the web. You can upload content such as your contact information, links to other web sites, etc. on the domains. ... read more ...
Tue 23rd February 2010
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eNom Launches “Instant Reseller” Domain Reseller Program - eNom joins competitors in offering easy domain reseller option. Joining the ranks of Go Daddy and Tucows, eNom is launching a domain reseller package that includes a web storefront for non-techies. (Update: Instant Reseller will replace the former PDQ program. See comments for details.) eNom’s system, called “Instant Reseller“, is essentially a reseller-in-a-box package that includes a fully hosted website and customized storefront, a shopping cart feature, ... read more ...
Mon 22nd February 2010
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How Tiered Pricing Could Lower a Cost of Domain Name Registration - …for some domains, anyway. A lot of the talk around new top level domain names is the lack of pricing controls on providers. A company that launches a new TLD can set prices however they wish, and owners of existing TLDs worry that this idea would then be applied to their domains. Have a successful domain? You could get hit with a $1,000 renewal bill. But let’s look at the other side for a moment. My guess is VeriSign would like to offer variable pricing — ... read more ...
Wed 3rd February 2010
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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 ...
Mon 9th November 2009
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Domain Owners Should Learn Lesson About Leaving Money on a Table - Deal or no deal? eNom leaves money on the table. Back in February I made an offer on a domain at AcquireThisName.com, an eNom affiliate. It wasn’t a great name, just a brandable that a friend was interested in. eNom wanted $6,000; my friend’s final offer was $400 since we were so far off. Flash forward to November and eNom is letting the domain drop, likely to earn little or nothing for the domain it could have had $400 or more for. Here’s an email I received ... read more ...