Tag Archives: mchx

Thu 19th September 2013
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Marchex shelves skeleton to spin off domains multiplication Archeo - Archeo will remain a division of Marchex instead of becoming its own publicly traded company. Marchex has canceled its plan to spin off its domain name business into a separate public company, at least for now. The company announced plans last November to spin off its domain business into a new company called Archeo. Marchex had long neglected its portfolio of over 200,000 domain names, and making it part of a separate company would allow it to better monetize the ... read more ...
Wed 27th February 2013
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Marchex domain sales dump in Q4, $6.3 million for a year - A look at Archeo’s revenue numbers. Marchex just reported earnings for Q4 2012 and the full year. It sold just $863,000 worth of domain names last quarter, which gave it $6.3 million in domain sales for the year. Had it already been spun out, its Archeo domain name and directory business would have generated $5.5 million in revenue last quarter without domain sales, which was about the same as the prior quarter. With domain sales it would have generated $6.4 million ... read more ...
Thu 2nd August 2012
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Marchex sells record $3.3 million in domains on Q2 - Not much else to smile about in its quarterly report. Marchex just released earnings for its second quarter. Most notable to the domain name industry is that the company had a record quarter for domain name sales — $3.3 million. There’s no additional insight into the sales in the company press release, but perhaps we’ll get more from its conference call. Marchex typically sells $1M-2.5M in domain names each quarter from its portfolio. Last time I checked the ... read more ...
Fri 19th February 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Tucows and Marchex See Shares Bounce on Earnings - Market happy with results at two domain name companies. Two publicly traded domain name companies have seen a nice bounce in their stock prices after reporting earnings. Tucows reported net income of 3 cents per share for the fourth quarter of 2009 on February 16 after the market closed. It also reported $2.88 million of cashflow from operations. Shares of Tucows bounced 15% the following day to $.77, and then another 21% the following day to close at $.93. That’s ... read more ...
Fri 7th August 2009
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Yahoo-Microsoft Deal Could Cost Marchex $8M Revenue - Paid-inclusion’s future is questionable. Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX) saw its revenue plunge 44% this quarter compared to the same one last year, and the Yahoo-Microsoft search deal could make a further dent when it goes into effect. On its earnings conference call this week, Marchex CFO Michael Arends said: Furthermore, during the second quarter, Yahoo! Search Submit Pro, also known as Paid Inclusion, which is a product that provides distribution within the Yahoo algorithmic ... read more ...
Wed 5th August 2009
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Marchex Revenue Falls 44% - Revenue in free-fall, but company still generating cash. Domain name and local search company Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX) today reported a 44% drop in revenues for Q2 2009 compared to the same quarter last year, but the company still managed to generate cashflow and carries no debt. The company posted $21.1M in revenue for the quarter, compared to $37.4M in the same quarter of 2008. For the first half of the year revenue dropped to $47.7M compared with $74.4M in the first ... read more ...
Wed 6th May 2009
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
UPDATED: Marchex Revenue Sinks, Sells $1M in Domain Names - Earnings miss estimates while company sells $1M in non-strategic domain names. Online advertising company Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX) missed analysts’ adjusted earnings estimates by 3 cents per share, earning only 2 cents per share in the first quarter of 2009. Analysts had predicted earnings of 5 cents per share. Revenue fell 28% compared to the same quarter last year, coming in at only $26.6 million. During the quarter Marchex sold $1M worth of domain names: In ... read more ...
Wed 25th March 2009
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Marchex Defends Frontrunners.com Domain Name - Arbitration panel determines Marchex can keep domain name FrontRunners.com. If there ever was a frontrunner for “dubious UDRP domain arbitration case”, FrontRunners.com may be it. Bradley D Mittman MD dba FRONTRUNNERS has a trademark to the term FrontRunners for use in connection with educational conferences and services in the field of medicine, including tutorial sessions and correspondence courses. But you’ve probably never heard of the company or any ... read more ...
Tue 13th January 2009
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Marchex Named in Complaint to FTC - Amended complaint from consumer groups targets call tracking technology. The Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (USPIRG) amended a petition to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today to launch an investigation into mobile advertising and privacy concerns. The report calls out domain name company Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX) for its VoiceStar subsidiary. According to the complaint: …Marchex surreptitiously gathers data ... read more ...
Fri 12th December 2008
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Microsoft Could Use Domain Channel to Get Leg Up in Search - Is Microsoft looking to buy into the domain market? It could be a winning strategy. You may have read a few rumors lately that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) may be getting into the domain name business. The last time I talked to a Microsoft representative on the record, he said the company was very interested in the domain channel but had no immediately plans to provide an ad feed to parked domains. Would Microsoft be so bold as to buy up hundreds of thousands of generic ... read more ...
Fri 5th December 2008
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Marchex Lays Off 10% - Marchex latest domain company to announce layoffs. Domain name and local advertising company Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX) has laid off 10% of its workforce, reports The Pugent Sound Business Journal. About 35 people are losing their jobs, although some of those are contract workers. Marchex has made a series of acquisitions, so some of the jobs were redundant. But it’s also working to maintain a strong cash position in the 12-month old recession. Shares of Marchex ... read more ...
Thu 20th November 2008
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Marchex Scales Back Domain Parking Service - Sitebox rapidly scaling down as it is no longer strategic to company. Local search and advertising company Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX) is scaling down its third party domain name parking service Sitebox. Company executives believe the service is no longer strategic to the company. Sitebox produced revenues of $5 million in the first half of the year, but less than $1.5 million in the third quarter. The company expects revenues to drop further to $0.5 million in the ... read more ...
Tue 7th October 2008
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Domain Stocks Pummeled - Domain name related companies get pummeled on Wall Street. Google’s 52 week stock performance(from Yahoo.com) The stock market is in a free fall, and domain stocks are no exception. Shares of Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX) dropped 12.5% yesterday to close at $8.28. At one point it dropped to $7.75. It’s down 27.5% since the beginning of September. Tucows (AMEX: TCX) shares continue to drop, and closed at just $.35 yesterday. The stock has been as high as $1.00 over ... read more ...
Thu 15th May 2008
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Arbitrage is Alive and Well on Google’s Content Network - Google’s content advertising network is full of pay-per-click arbitrage ads. I recently bought a web site about 529 college savings plans (more on that later) and added Google Adsense (NASDAQ: GOOG) ads to it. For the first couple days, almost all of the ads Google showed were for pay-per-click arbitrage sites. Most of these ads had generic descriptions such as: Looking for information on 529 plans? Learn more about 529 plans. Expert Advice. www.some-long-keyword-infused-url.com Now ... read more ...