Tag Archives: Publicly Traded Domain Co

Wed 7th August 2013
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AOL Buys Adap.tv For $405 Million -   We have agreed to acquire Adap.tv for $405 MM, here is what Adap.tv brings AOL:   The only complete global programmatic video stack for publishers and advertisers across all screens; A unified yield management platform for advertisers and publishers for planning, targeting, ad-serving and measurement; One of the fastest growing platforms on the internet, with global revenue growth in excess of 100% per year in each of the last three years; Wide adoption by the largest global advertisers and publishers, ... read more ...
 
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Marchex Details Spin Off Archeo Business: Buying & Selling & Developing Domains; 200,000 Of Them - The Marchex earnings call yesterday reveal some interesting facts about Archeo the business that Marchex is looking to spin off to a separate public company later this year. It appears Archeo is set to become the first publicly traded company whose only business is one of  being a domainer: “I’d like to highlight that we’re narrowing Archeo’s focus on the buying and selling of domains, along with the select development of proprietary websites.” Pretty much how I would describe a domainer. As ... read more ...
Tue 6th August 2013
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Marchex’s Archeo Sells 70 Domains For $1.3 Million & Spinoff Is Set For 4th Q - Marchex, Inc. (MCHX), a leader in mobile performance advertising, today announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2013.   Q2 2013 Financial Highlights:   Revenue was $39.0 million for the second quarter of 2013, compared to $34.0 million for the same period in 2012.  to $4.6 million for the same period in 2012.   Marchex Q2 and Recent Call-Driven Business Highlights:   Revenue. Call-driven and other related revenue was $33.9 million for the second quarter of 2013 ... read more ...
Tue 30th July 2013
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Neustar Reports: Revenue Up 7% Net Income Up 12% and has $381 Million In The Bank - Neustar, Inc. (NSR), the backend provider for  the ccTLD’s .US, .CO, the TLD of .biz and hundreds of new gTLD’s today announced results for the quarter ended June 30, 2013 and updated its guidance for 2013. Results for Second Quarter 2013 Compared to Second Quarter 2012 Revenue increased 7% to $220.4 million Non-NPAC revenue increased 7% to $111.0 million Net income increased 12% to $43.4 million Net income per share increased 14% to $0.65 Non-GAAP Results for Second Quarter 2013 Compared to ... read more ...
Mon 24th June 2013
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Demand Media Acquires Society6 For $95 Million & Lowers Revenue Guidance For 2Q - In two announcements today Demand Media (DMD) acquired Society6, an e-commerce marketplace for artwork and related merchandise for $94 Million dollars. Society6, had 2012 revenue of $15M. The purchase price will be paid $75M in cash  and  $19M in stock. As of March 30, the company only had  $109.4M in cash. Also Demand today lowered its revenue guidance for the second quarter citing “a reduction in search engine referral traffic to its owned and operated sites in May and June.” The company ... read more ...
Tue 28th May 2013
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It’s Official, You Could Have Doubled Your Money This Year Buying Marchex - Share of Marchex have been on a tear of late up over 50% in the last month and over 100% in the past year and have hit a new 52 week high today of $6.30 As of publications shares of Marchex are trading at $6.30 up over 6% on the day. A month ago on April 29th, shares were trading at $4.08 a share meaning that shares of Marchex are trading more than 50% higher than just one month ago. The 52 week low for the stock is $2.99 meaning you could have doubled your money had you bought Marchex shares at ... read more ...
Fri 24th May 2013
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Bloomberg Reports Google Facing New FCC Antitrust Probe Over Display Ads - According to Bloomberg.com, Google is facing a new Antitrust Probe Over Display Ads by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission According to the story the FCC is looking into “into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display-advertising market to illegally curb competition” The story goes on to say that the investigation is in the preliminary stage and may not expand into a larger probe “FTC investigators are examining whether Google is using its position in U.S. display ads ... read more ...
Thu 23rd May 2013
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Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Now Owns Over 5% Of Verisign - Back In February we told you that Warren Buffets’s Berkshire Hathaway purchased 3,685,700 shares  of Verisign (VRSN) which at the time of acquisition represented an investment of around $165 Million dollars. Today according to Cnbc.com,  Berkshire Hathaway added another 4.49 million shares last quarter and now owns 5.35% of VeriSign. “”While the introduction of a new category of “top level domains” (such as .aero for aviation businesses or .mobi for mobile websites) does increase the ... read more ...
Wed 15th May 2013
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Tucows Reports: Revenue Increases 9% But Domain Sales Slow To $1.1M - Tucows Inc. (NYSE AMEX:TCX, TSX:TC), reported its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013 after the market closed today According to reports Tucows missed expectations as to both earnings and revenue. Net revenue for the first quarter of 2013 increased 9% to a record $30.0 million from $27.5 million for the first quarter of 2012. Net income for the first quarter of 2013 was $0.1 million, or $0.00 per share, compared with $1.7 million, or $0.04 per share, for the first quarter ... read more ...
 
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Google Top $900 For 1st Time & Market Cap Breaks $300 Billion - Shares of Google (GOOG) are currently trading above $900 a share an all time high for the company. It was only 3 months ago that shares of Google hit $800 a share. Its was just a few months earlier when shares of Apple and Google were trading at the same $600 level. Shares at time of publication are  trading at $905 up over $18 a share. Google’s market cap is now over $300 Billion. Google is trading at a price earnings (PE)  of 27. Google IPO was at $85 a share and shares have never been split.   Google+Michael ... read more ...
Wed 8th May 2013
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MarketLeader Buyer Of RealEstate.com For $8.25M Gets Buyout From Trulia For $355 Million - Trulia, Inc. (NYSE: TRLA, “Trulia”),announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Market Leader, Inc. (NASDAQ: LEDR, “Market Leader”),  for approximately $355 million, or an implied price of $11.33 per share (based on Trulia’s closing share price on Tuesday, May 7, 2013). MarketLeader.com you might remember bought the domain name RealEstate.com back just in 2011 for $8.25 million dollars. At the time we noted that the company only had a market cap of $55 Million ... read more ...
Sat 4th May 2013
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Web.com Owner Of Register.com and NetworkSolutions.com Reports Earnings -   Web.com Group, Inc. (WWWW), which owns the top 10 domain name registrars, NetworkSolutions.com and Register.com announced results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013 on Thursday night. After reporting results shares of the company hit an all time high on Friday Here are the highlights: Added 21,000 net new subscribers, ending the quarter at 3.03 million subscribers Average Revenue Per User of $13.89 grew $0.12 sequentially Completed second debt re-financing increasing total annualized ... read more ...
Thu 2nd May 2013
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Neustar Reports: Revenue Up 8%; Sets $250 Million Repurchase Plan - Neustar, Inc. (NSR), announced results for the quarter ended March 31, 2013 and affirmed its guidance for 2013. Neustar is the backend provider for several TLD’s including .Us and .Co and hundreds of new gTLD’s and is going to operate the .NYC extension on behalf of the city of New York The company also announced that it plans to purchase up to $250 million of its Class A common shares beginning May 7, 2013 through December 31, 2013. Results for First Quarter 2013 Compared to First Quarter 2012   Revenue ... read more ...
Thu 25th April 2013
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Verisign Reports: 123 Million .Com/.Net Domains; Revenue adult 15%; $1.6 Billion In Cash - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013 reported revenue of $236 million for the first quarter of 2013, up 15% from the same quarter in 2012. Verisign reported the quarter ended with 123.1 million .com/.net domain name registered a 5.5% increase year over year. Verisign reported net income of $85 million and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.52 for the first quarter of 2013, compared to net income of $68 million and diluted EPS ... read more ...
Thu 18th April 2013
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Google Reports: Revenue Up 31%; Paid Clicks Up 20%; Cost Per Click Down 4% - Google Inc. its earnings after the market closed today, reporting a first-quarter profit of $3.35 billion, or $9.94 a share, compared with a profit of $2.89 billion, or $8.75 a share, for the year-earlier period. Shares of Google are up just marginally after the report. Google ends the 1st quarter with over $50 Billion in the bank. Here are the details: Google Inc. reported consolidated revenues of $13.97 billion for the quarter ended March 31, 2013, an increase of 31% compared to the first quarter ... read more ...
Sat 13th April 2013
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Microsoft Doesn’t Like Google’s Dotless .Search But Supports The GAC’s Move Against Closed Generics - Microsoft issued the following statement exclusively to TheDomains.com last night regarding events this week in at ICANN: “As the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) to ICANN recommended this week, it is contrary to the free and open ideals of the Internet for a private commercial entity to act as gatekeeper to domains that consist of generic industry terms like .search, .cloud or .app. “ICANN should follow the GAC’s clear recommendation that any non-open domains that consist of generic industry ... read more ...
Thu 11th April 2013
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Google Acquires YT.Be To Use As YouTube Shorterner - “Presumably, Google will use the domain name for shortened links to YouTube videos. ” “Today, the company uses another .be domain name to do that, namely youtu.be, as you can tell from this totally randomly selected tweet: I have it on good authority that Google acquired the domain name, which was originally registered back in May 2003, from a Belgian Internet entrepreneur, but didn’t make its identity known throughout the purchasing process. But you can see Google is the owner of the domain ... read more ...
Sun 24th March 2013
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Demand Media Paid $18 Million For Name.com Registrar - According to a 10-K report filed with the SEC by Demand Media (DMD) (page F-31) the company paid $18 Million dollars for the domain name registrar Name.com “”On December 31, 2012, the Company completed the acquisition of the net assets of Name.com, a retail registrar company based in Denver, Colorado. “The purchase consideration of $18,000,000 comprised an initial cash payment of $16,200,000 and the remaining $1,800,000 is subject to a hold back to satisfy post-closing indemnification obligations” “any ... read more ...
Tue 19th March 2013
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Demand Media Acquires Arts & Crafts Video Content Provider CreativeBug -   According to a Press Release out today, Demand Media® (DMD) announced the acquisition of Creativebug, “the go-to source for high-quality, online video art and craft instruction”. Terms of the deal were not released. “Creativebug’s network of exceptional designers and library of educational videos complements the crafts-related content on Demand Media’s eHow web property.” “The acquisition will accelerate Demand Media’s expansion into e-Learning.”   “We’re seeing a ‘disruption ... read more ...
Sat 9th March 2013
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Meetme.com Buyers Of Meet.me, Reports & Stock Rises 15% - Meetme.com (MEET) reported it earnings for the quarter and fiscal year ending December 31, 2012 after the market closed on Thursday night and the earnings report send the stock up over 15% in regular trading on Friday. You may remember that Meetme.com is the company that bought the domain name Meet.me for $450,000 “Total revenues from continuing operations for the fourth quarter 2012 were approximately $11.6 million, an increase of approximately $5.7 million or 96% compared to approximately $5.9 ... read more ...
Mon 4th March 2013
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.Menu One Of The First New gTLD That Should Launch Goes With Namejet/Afternic - WhatBox? LLC, the applicant for the new top level domain .MENU, has selected NameJet and Afternic to operate the sunrise and landrush auctions, and offer premium name distribution for the .MENU top level domain (TLD). According to a press release we received today, .Menu “is targeting restaurants and food enthusiasts in its efforts to contribute to the evolving online culinary experience”. “Due to a favorable result at the ICANN TLD draw, .MENU and NameJet are prepared to open the sunrise period ... read more ...
Sun 3rd March 2013
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BankRate.com Buys CardOffers.com & Spends $34 Million On Domains & TM’s In 2012 - Bankrate.com (RATE) spent almost $34 Million Dollars on Domain names and trademarks in 2012. One of the 2012 acquisitions appears to be the large lead generation site, CardOffers.com which was purchased sometime in October 2012. Bankrate.com applied for a trademark on Cardoffers.com in October, 2012. The domain is currently showing as LinkOffers.com as the owner of the domain. In December 2012, the registered owner Linkoffers.com  went into privacy at Godaddy.com According to the an SEC filing on ... read more ...
Thu 28th February 2013
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CEO Of Marchex: We Don’t Believe The New TLDs Are A Significant Factor In Value of .Com’s - In the Marchex (MCHX) earnings call today a question was asked about how the new gTLD’s will effect .com’s values specifically those domains held by Marchex. and how the continued movement of consumers to smart phones will also effect the values. Here is the question which was asked by  Andre Sequin  of RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Research Division: “In terms of the value of the domain portfolio, how do you think the introduction of the new gTLDs, which will be happening here in the next 2 ... read more ...
Tue 19th February 2013
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Demand Reports: Content Revenue Up 25%; Registrar Up 10%: Domains Up to 13.7 Million - Demand Media, Inc.(DMD), today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2012 and combined with Demand’s statement that they are considering spiting the company into to different public companies,  shares are up over 17% in after hours trading. Q4 2012 Financial Summary: Content Media revenue ex-TAC grew 25% year-over-year, driven by 24% page view growth on the Company’s owned operated properties as well as 37% growth in network RPMs ex-TAC, reflecting ... read more ...
Sat 16th February 2013
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Report: Google To Open Google Stores By The Holidays: Will They Sell New gTLD’s? - According to 9to5google.com, Google is going to roll out retail stores cross metropolitan areas in the United States ahead of the holidays this year. Google Stores will be used to show off Google’s own brand of products, such as the Nexus lineup of Android smartphones and tablets, as well as Chromebooks. I guess if Google goes ahead with opening retail stores they might as well sell their new gTLD’s out the stores as well. If Google went ahead with retail stores there would be no reason why you ... read more ...