Did GoDaddy compensate $35.5 million for Michael Berkens' portfolio? - Maybe…
GoDaddy released earnings today. Although the company doesn’t directly disclose how much the company paid for Michael Berkens’ Worldwide Media domain name portfolio, there’s a clue.
As of the end of September, the company’s cash flow reconciliation included $30.7 million used for acquisitions. At the end of the year, the number spiked to $66.2 million. That’s a $35.5 million difference.
This does not necessarily mean this was just for Berken’s portfolio. It could have included ... read more ...
Tag Archives: GoDaddy
Wed 17th February 2016
GoDaddy roughly essential in Q4 - GoDaddy almost turns a GAAP profit in Q4.
Domain name and web hosting company GoDaddy (NYSE:GDDY) reported earnings after the bell today.
GoDaddy had a net loss of $(0.5) million and an adjusted EBITDA of $73.5 million. Total bookings hit $464.0 million and unlevered free cash flow came in at $52.3 million. (The latter two measures are important for a subscription-based business like GoDaddy’s.)
The company reported $425.4 million revenue in Q4, up 14.4% year-over-year and 3.5% over the Q3.
Revenue ... read more ...
Thu 11th February 2016
Two engaging GoDaddy obvious applications - Applications describe system for recommending different domain names for a website, and making it easy to transition.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has published two interesting patent applications from GoDaddy related to search engine optimization and localization.
Applications number 14/453415 and 14/453418 (pdf) are for “Optimized domain names and websites based on incoming traffic” and “Search engine optimization of domain names and websites”.
Both describe essentially the same ... read more ...
Mon 1st February 2016
Former Industry Blog WannaDevelop.com closes currently on Go Daddy Auctions - WannaDevelop.com was a blog that was run by Mike Cohen, while talking about things like mini and mega site development, the blog also posted about the domain industry.
MorganLinton.com posted an article back in 2010 that created quite a stir and that was followed up by Owen Frager and DomainShane.com.
WannaDevelop.com is currently expired and around $100 on Go Daddy Auctions. It will be interesting to see the closing price and if it gets renewed.
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Wed 13th January 2016
GoDaddy launches Domain Investor App - App makes on-the-go bidding easier, even if you use two-factor authentication.
GoDaddy has launched a new domain name investor app for the iPhone and Android, making it easier to watch and bid on domain names at GoDaddy Auctions.
Mike McLaughlin, GM for Domains at the company, announced the app release during his keynote address at NamesCon today in Las Vegas.
The app’s functionality is fairly simple. But it’s certainly much faster than logging into GoDaddy’s mobile site to bid, especially ... read more ...
Mon 11th January 2016
Test your skills with GoDaddy's Bought or Not - Fun game asks you to guess if a domain is registered or not.
GoDaddy released a fun (and rather eye-opening) app at NamesCon today called Bought Or Not.
Bought or Not is similar to hot or not, except players guess if a domain name has been registered or not. It’s available online at BoughtOrNot.com and as an iPhone app, with Android coming soon.
GoDaddy is giving away prizes if you play the game at its booth during NamesCon.
A group of GoDaddy interns came up with the idea over the summer. GoDaddy ... read more ...
Tue 15th December 2015
55 Three Letter .Com's From My Former Portfolio Sold & Buyer Is NOT From China - I just noticed that 55 three-letter domain names (LLL.com) that I sold as part of my portfolio to Godaddy/Afternic, which was announced a week ago Monday, have already been sold off and the biggest surprise maybe the buyer was not from China.
Domain investor Nat Cohen’s Telepathy is now the owner of the following three-letter .com’s.
All appear to be the type of letter domain names favored by Chinese domain investors those without vowels or the letter “v”
Some repeaters are included.
The ... read more ...
Wed 9th December 2015
Why Marchex and WWM domain name acquisitions make clarity for GoDaddy - Unique characteristics make these portfolios valuable to GoDaddy.
Worldwide Media’s portfolio is a good match for GoDaddy’s business model.
GoDaddy made the surprising announcement on Monday that it had purchased Michael Berkens’ domain name portfolio.
It was surprising because I had no idea Michael Berkens’ Worldwide Media (WWM) portfolio was for sale. But it’s unsurprising that GoDaddy was interested in this particular portfolio.
Like the portfolio GoDaddy acquired from Marchex earlier ... read more ...
Mon 7th December 2015
My Sale to Godaddy - By now I assume you have read the press release that my company Worldwide Media, Inc., more commonly known in the domain community as MostWantedDomains.com, has sold the vast majority of our domain portfolio to GoDaddy/Afternic.
While I can’t get into the details of the transaction, I did want to share some thoughts about the sale and what it means and does not mean about the state of the domain industry in my opinion.
Let me start by saying this transaction was prompted for personal life reasons, ... read more ...
Thu 3rd December 2015
.Club Has Record Month Selling Over $1.6 In Premium Domains -
.Club announced today on its blog, that they had a record-setting month in November selling $1,622,164.13 in premium domain names.
In all .Club sold 326 premium domains in November.
.Club continues to be fully transparent in its sales activities:
November was a record-breaking month for both regular .CLUB registrations and premium name sales. It was our first month with more than $1 million in Premium Name sales, with strong deals coming from two auctions, our registrar channel, registry direct ... read more ...
Fri 13th November 2015
Rick Schwartz Sells 4 Domains For Over $1.325M & Breaks Record (Again) For 4 Number .Com - Rick Schwartz added to his most amazing year, selling four more domain names this week for just over $1.325 million dollars.
Rick, who is known as the Domain King, keeps showing why he owns that title.
Included in this week’s sales is 6565.com which set another record for a 4 number .Com domain name.
Rick sold 9595.com for $180,000 in July, which at the time set a record for the highest amount paid for a 4 number .Com domain name (NNNN.com)
The sale of 6565.com, which Rick sold early this week, ... read more ...
DomainPros Buys 260 Five Digit Domains For $1M; $3,850 Per - DomainPros.com announced today that it just acquired 260 five number domain names (NNNNN.com) for $1,000,000
That works out to just over $3,800 per domain name.
“Most of those 260 domains originally belonged to Marchex’s portfolio of 5 digit domains” which Godaddy bought from Marchex.
Back in April we announced that Godaddy paid $26.2 Million dollars for Marchex’s portfolio of over 200,000 domain names, however its not clear if Godaddy still owned the domain names that DomainPros.com acquired.
62.com ... read more ...
Remember that behest fight for 66.biz ? Owner got his genuine universe estimation and eliminated out - I have talked many times about people playing the real world appraisal game, they let the domain name complete auction at Go Daddy and then get the auth code and transfer out. Not everyone knows that you can transfer out, so many believe that someone would not pay $80 for this real world appraisal, most don’t pay $80 and redeem at Go Daddy, they transfer out to another registrar for $8.
So there was a lot of excitement about 66.biz and the bidding war taking place, the name closed at $69,000, but ... read more ...
Wed 11th November 2015
GoDaddy Fixes "Make Offer" listings in hunt results - Listings will not longer show as auctions in the registration path.
Last week someone emailed me asking for assistance buying a domain name. They told me they already tried to buy it after finding it was on auction at GoDaddy.
They let me know that it had a $250 starting price, so they placed a bid. Then the auction ended and it was relisted, and they placed another bid.
Anyone familiar with how Afternic listings integrate with GoDaddy knows that the domain was never really in an auction. Instead, ... read more ...
Fri 6th November 2015
GoDaddy obvious app describes mobile domain name send system - A faster, more secure way to transfer domain names for in-person transactions?
Picture this: you’re at NamesCon in January when you strike a deal with a fellow domainer to sell a domain name to them. You both pull out your phones, activate an app, keep the phones near each other, and then click a few buttons to instantly transfer the domain name to them.
That’s the basic idea of a patent application (pdf) by GoDaddy that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published yesterday.
The application ... read more ...
Thu 5th November 2015
GoDaddy sole $1.4 million of domain names from Marchex portfolio final quarter - Company getting early results from domain name portfolio.
GoDaddy released its Q3 earnings yesterday, and its 10-Q filing with the SEC gives some insight into how it is doing with the Marchex domain name portfolio.
The company paid $28.1 million to acquire the portfolio of about 200,000 domain names in April.
It’s also paying an earn-out. GoDaddy acquired three companies this year and discloses in its 10-Q that it recognized a liability of $0.9 million for earn-outs from these acquisitions. It’s ... read more ...
Wed 4th November 2015
Godaddy May Be The World's Largest Domain Registrar But Not For New gTLD's - Godaddy.com, which is the world’s largest domain name registrar (having the most domain names under management) is no longer the number 1 domain name registrar for new gTLD domains.
According to ntldstats.com, Godaddy.com has fallen into the 2nd position worldwide when it comes to domain registered with new domain extensions, known as new gTLD’s.
A China based domain registrar, Chengdu West Dimension Digital Technology Co., Ltd. whose website is West.cn has passed Godaddy when it comes to domain ... read more ...
GoDaddy shares burst after hours on earnings, guidance - Wall Street applauds GoDaddy’s Q3 results.
Shares in GoDaddy are up sharply after the company reported earnings this afternoon.
GoDaddy shares are trading at $30.00 per share in after hours trading, up around 10% from its closing price today.
The company reported a 15% jump in revenue year-over-year for the third quarter, while adjusted EBITDA was up 22.5%. The company bumped annual revenue guidance up as well.
In other good news, annual revenue per customer was up 6.8% compared to the same quarter ... read more ...
Fri 23rd October 2015
Domain Holder Loses UDRP On RentMyPartyBus.com Files Federal Lawsuit - The domain holder who lost a UDRP on the domain name RentMyPartyBus.com has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Arizona.
Plaintiff Aleksey Silenko is the Director of Business for Safeway Transit LLC, a Minnesota company who is the named registrant for the domain name rentmypartybus.com.
It’s a pretty interesting case, since the “trademark holder” was first incorporated on May 1, 2014 but in its trademark application to the USPTO it alleged first use in 2002.
Although the domain holder first ... read more ...
Mon 12th October 2015
Quick Poll: What Will Be The High Bid On Health.Org - Earlier today we posted about a Godaddy.com expired domain name auction underway for health.org.
The auction still has over 9 days to go as of publication.
Assuming the domain auction does not get called off because the owner renews the domain name we opened a poll question to ask “What Will High Bid Be For The Domain .Health.org?”
The poll is located on the right about half way down the page.
For bragging rights you can also put you’re actual prediction in the comments beow
With bidding at ... read more ...
Health.Org Tops $141,000 In Bidding In Expired Domain GoDaddy.com Auction - .Health.org is in an expired domain name auction at GoDaddy.com and bidding has topped $141,000 with over 9 days to go.
According to the stats shown on the GoDaddy auction page, the 22 year old domain is estimated to get almost 7,000 visitors a month.
Arguably the domain name Health.org is one of the top 5 best possible and most valuable .org domain names.
As of publication there are only 17 active bidders on the domain, but the only way to become an active bidder is to top the current high bid ... read more ...
Sun 11th October 2015
Godaddy .Miami Domain Name Auctions Hit The 4 Figures - .Miami went live for General Availability (GA), where they could be registered on a first come, first served basis, on October 2nd.
.Miami did not have a landrush or an Early Access Program (EAP)
.Miami is being managed on behalf of the city of Miami by Minds + Machines which has premium registration and renewal domains as well as reserved domain names.
Godaddy has had a policy for all new gTLD launches, if more than 1 person pre-registers a domain name and they catch the domain, then the domain ... read more ...
Mon 5th October 2015
Big Up Swing In Personal Domain Registration To Point To Social Media Sites - GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), and Verisign (VRSN) are seeing an upswing in people registering “personal domain names” just to point them to their social media sites.
It seems people have gotten the word that they don’t control their social media pages, the underlying social media company’s do so they are registering these personal domain names and pointing them to a their social media page.
According to a press release Godaddy published today said they are seeing an increase of 37% of such domains ... read more ...
.Com Winners Update: Google Domains is Growing - Here’s how registrars fared with .com in June.
ICANN has published Verisign’s registrar data for .com from June.
As always, GoDaddy dominated the charts in terms of new registrations. And, for the second month in a row, it avoided the top 5 when it comes to net transfer losses.
But the bigger story to me is Google, which is growing its new registrar at a rapid clip. Google continues to get lots of inbound transfers, and also generated 18,675 new .com registrations in June. It ended the month ... read more ...
Sat 3rd October 2015
Publicly Traded Autodesk, Inc. Purchases Graphic.com Domain Name From GoDaddy.com - Publicly traded company Autodesk, Inc. has purchased the premium generic domain name Graphic.com from another public company, GoDaddy.com.
GoDaddy is listed on NYSE: GDDY with a market cap of $3.99 Billion. Autodesk is listed on NASDAQ: ADSK which has a $9.95 Billion market cap.
The domain name was part of the domain name portfolio GoDaddy acquired from Marchex in a $28.1 Million dollar deal in April 2015.
How much did Graphic.com sell for? That is a good question but not something disclosed at ... read more ...