Tag Archives: Publicly Traded Domain Co

Fri 15th February 2013
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Warren Buffet Invests In $165 Million Dollars into Domain Industry - According to TheStreet.com, the most famous stock investor on earth, Warren Buffet’s company Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) has purchased 3,685,700 shares  of Verisign (VRSN). At the closing price of Verisign yesterday he investment represents around $165 Million dollars or about the size of the investment Marchex made in the purchase of Yung Ye’s domain name portfolio some 8 years ago. We told you that more money is going to come into the domain industry than ever before, here is another $165 Million ... read more ...
Thu 14th February 2013
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Tucows Reports: Revenue Up 13%: Domain Sales & Parking Revenue adult 12% - After the stock market closed last night Tucows (TCX) reported its earnings for the 4th quarter ending Devember 31, 2012 Most of the good numbers were in the earnings call: “”Total revenue for the quarter grew 13%, from the same quarter in 2011 to $29.8 million, our eleventh consecutive quarter of growth and revenue for the year grew 18% net percent to just shy of $115 million both records for the respective periods.” “Cash flow from operations for Q4 was $2 million and for the year was $6.3 ... read more ...
Sun 10th February 2013
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Web.com Owner Of Registrars Network Solutions & Register.com Reports: Stock adult 12%+ - Web.com (WWWW) reported its earnings for announced results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2012. on Friday and had investors buying shares of the company rose over 12% to $18.19 Fourth Quarter and Recent Business Highlights: Web.com’s total net subscribers were 3,009,000 at the end of the fourth quarter of 2012, an increase of 18,000 from the end of the third quarter. Web.com’s average revenue per user (ARPU) was $13.77 for the fourth quarter of 2012, representing a sequential ... read more ...
Tue 5th February 2013
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Neustar Reports: Revenue Up 23% 4th Q 34% in 2012 - Neustar (NSR) reported its earnings  for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2012 and provided guidance for 2013 after the market closed today. Neustar is the backend provider for many ccTLD’s including .Co and .Us,  the TLD  .Biz. and many new gTLD providers.  Neustar also has the contract with the City of New York to operate the .NYC registry. Summary of Fourth Quarter Results Compared to Fourth Quarter of 2011 Revenue increased 23% to $214.2 million Income from continuing operations ... read more ...
Mon 28th January 2013
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Yahoo Reports: Search Revenue Up 4%; Paid Clicks Up 11%; Price Per Click Falls 2% - Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) today reported results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2012. The market liked the report as shares of Yahoo are up over 3% to $20.95 in after hours trading. As you can see below revenue from search was up 4% for the 4th Quarter of 2012 and up 2% for the year. GAAP revenue was $1,346 million for the fourth quarter of 2012, a 2% increase from the fourth quarter of 2011. Revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs (“revenue ex-TAC”) was $1,221 million for ... read more ...
Thu 24th January 2013
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Verisign: Revenue Up 13%; 121 Million .Com/Net’s; Profit Margin 59%; $1.6 Billion In a Bank - VeriSign, Inc. ( NASDAQ : VRSN ), announced financial results for the fourth quarter of 2012 and year ended Dec. 31, 2012 today after the market closed and had a very nice year. VeriSign, Inc. reported revenue of $230 million for the fourth quarter of 2012, up 13 % from the same quarter in 2011. Verisign reported net income of $106 million and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.65 for the fourth quarter of 2012, compared to net income of $54 million and diluted EPS of $0.34 for the same quarter ... read more ...
 
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Tucows.com Tops $2 A Share - Share of Tucows.com (TCX) topped $2 a share in intraday trading for the first time since 2001. Shares of Tucows.com traded as high as $2.05 before falling back to $2 where its is trading as of time of publication. Shares of Tucows traded at $1.50 just a couple of weeks ago as their Dutch tender ended.  Shares started 2013 at $1.45 so the stock is now up over 30% since the start of the year. Volume today is already over 800,000 shares or over 6x the three month average daily volume. Tucows.com is ... read more ...
Tue 22nd January 2013
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Yahoo Acquires Snip.it For The “Ten’s of Millions of Dollars” - According to a post on the company blog, Snip.it has been acquired by Yahoo for what Cnet.com is reporting to be in the “ten’s of millions of dollars” Here is the company blog post: “We are thrilled at the opportunity to bring Snip.it’s vision to a larger scale at Yahoo!. While we can’t share the specifics of what we’ll be building, we are excited about the opportunity to take social news to new, exciting heights at Yahoo!. The Yahoo! team is passionate about inspiring and entertaining ... read more ...
 
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Google Reports: Revenues Up 36%; Paid Clicks Up 24%; Cost Per Click Down 6% - After the stock market closed today Google reported its earnings for the quarter and fiscal year ending December 31, 2012 which we better than expected sending shares of Google up over 3% in after hours trading. Google Inc. reported consolidated revenues of $14.42 billion for the quarter ended December 31, 2012, an increase of 36% compared to the fourth quarter of 2011. Google’s fourth-quarter profit improved 6.7%. Google posted a quarterly profit of $2.89 billion, or $8.62 a share, up from $2.71 ... read more ...
Mon 21st January 2013
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SeekingAlpha: “Get Ready To Profit From The ‘Dot-Com Boom 2.0′” - SeekingAlpha.com a publication that goes out to stock investors.  In a post entitled “Get Ready To Profit From The ‘Dot-Com Boom 2.0″ The article starts out with the subtitle: “”Dot-com is so 1990s” “Starting March 23, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will increase the availability of Web addresses by assigning some 1,900 domain suffixes, the part of a website address that ends in .com, .org or .net. The project has been five years in the making, but ... read more ...
Tue 15th January 2013
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Shares Of Tucows Are Up Over 20% In Five Days - Shares of Tucows, Inc. (TCX) are on a tear. Shares are currently trading at $1.82 up from $1.55 of just Friday.  So shares are up $.27 in the last three days of trading . Tucows.com concluded it dutch tender offer at $1.5o on January 10, 2012 just 5 days ago and so shares are up over 20% from the close of that tender offer. Tucows.com has been buying back its own shares for the past couple of years and now with less shares in float (approximately 40,000,000) prices have been on the rise. Tucows.com ... read more ...
Tue 11th December 2012
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Marchex Declares Special Dividend For Dec 31st - Marchex (NASDAQ:MCHX)  announced that upon the recommendation and approval of the independent Special Committee of the Board, the company’s Board of Directors has declared a regular quarterly dividend in the amount of $0.035 per share on its common stock for the first, second, third and fourth quarters of 2013 (totaling $0.14 per share) and is accelerating its payment of these dividends into the fourth quarter of 2012. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, December 18th will be given a dividend of ... read more ...
Tue 4th December 2012
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Goldman Sachs Downgrades Demand Media Citing Google - Goldman Sachs just downgraded Demand Media Inc ((NYSE: DMD) from Neutral to Sell and cut its price target from $12 to $9. Goldman Sachs commented,: “Demand Media has proven vulnerable to changes made by Google in the past, the Panda algorithm change in 3Q11 being the most significant example as it drove owned and operated content revenue down 3% yoy in 1Q12. “In 3Q12 and more significantly in 4Q, DMD began a traffic-driving strategy to eHow search pages, which could yield a near-term increase ... read more ...
Wed 14th November 2012
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Tucows.com Opens Up 25% - Following last night’s earnings release and the news that it was launching a tender offer to purchase 6.5 million shares between $1.35 and $1.50, as predicted shares rocked up. As of 9:45 this morning just 15 minutes into the trading day shares of Tucows are trading at $1.37 up almost 25%. Shares have traded as high as $1.41 Shares closed at $1.12 yesterday. The stock buy back program takes place over the next 20 days. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Tue 13th November 2012
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Tucows Reports: Revenue adult 17% & Sells $1.4 Million In Domains & Announces Tender Offer To Buy Back More Stock - Tucows.com (TCX) reported its financial results for the third quarter ending September 30, 2012, after the market closed today and also announced a tender offer to re-purchase up to 6.5 Million shares of its own stock at prices ranging from $1.35 to $1.50 Tucows shares closed at $1.12 during trading so it should get a nice pop on the open tomorrow Net revenue for the third quarter of 2012 increased 17% to a record $29.3 million from $25.1 million for the third quarter of 2011. Net income for the ... read more ...
Fri 9th November 2012
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After Turning Down Google’s Offer To Buy It For $6 Billion, Groupon.com Finds Itself Having a Value of Under $2 Billion - Less than  two years ago Groupon.com turned down an offer of $6 Billion dollars from Google. It was just over a year ago that Groupon.com went public at $20 a share, given it an implied valuation of $13 Billion. After reporting declining revenue yesterday shares of Groupon sank below $3 a share today down some 30% from the previous close, giving the company a $1.8 Billion dollar valuation. So the company went from a $6 Billion dollar offer from Google which if it would have taken all Google stock ... read more ...
Wed 7th November 2012
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How’s that Meet.me Sale Looking Now? Revenues $11.6 Million; Active Users Almost 4 Million in September - - MeetMe®, Inc. ( NYSE MKT : MEET ), reported earnings after the market closed today for  the third quarter ended September 30, 2012. Yes this is the same company that bought Meet.me from MostWantedDomains.com for $450,000 last year. Here are the results: Third quarter Revenue totaled $11.6 million, up 1,148% year-over-year. Third quarter Revenue represents a 30% increase over the $8.9 million of Combined Revenue, a non-GAAP measure, of Quepasa and myYearbook during the same period a year ago.   Net ... read more ...
Mon 5th November 2012
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Neustar Reports: Revenue Up 38% - Neustar (NSR) announced results for the quarter ended September 30, 2012 and updated its guidance for full-year 2012. after the market closed today. Neustar provides the back end of many TLD including .biz, .US and .Co and is the back end provider for many of the new gTLD applications.   GAAP Results for Third Quarter 2012 Compared to Third Quarter 2011 Revenue increased 38% to $211.2 million Income from continuing operations increased 21% to $45.8 million. Income from continuing operations for ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media Reports & Beats Estimates: eHow #13 US Web Property: Registrar Grows 11% - Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) reported its earnings for the third quarter ending September 30, 2012 after the market closed. Demand Media, Inc. owns Enom.com, part of NameJet.com and is the back end provider of Donuts new gTLD’s application. Demand also applied for over 20 new gTLDs and owns part of over 100 new gTLD filed by Donuts. According to the earnings report, revenue Increased 20%  Year-over-Year, at $98.1 million, and well above the $91.4 million expected Adjusted EBITDA was Up 28% Year-over-Year Free ... read more ...
Wed 31st October 2012
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QuinStreet Hits A New All Time Low After Reporting Earnings - QuinStreet, Inc. (QNST), hit an all time low this morning after issuing its earnings report for the quarter ending September 30, 2012 The stock traded as low as $5.66 today and is current trading as of time of publication at $6 a share. At $6 a share the company has a market cap of just $255 million dollars, which is not great for a company with $103 million in cash. Shares of QuinStreet hit an all time high of $23.86 back in Feburary of 2011 QuinStreet bought Insurance.com and CarInsurance.com for ... read more ...
Tue 23rd October 2012
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Yahoo Beats Estimates & Shares Rise Almost 5% After Hours - Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO)  reported results for the quarter ended September 30, 2012 after the market closed today Yahoo beat analysts’ expectations revenue in the three months ended in September rose 2% to $1.09 billion, yielding EPS of 35 cents. Analysts on averaged had been expecting $1.08 billion and 26 cents a share. Display revenue was flat, year over year, at $452 million, while search ad revenue was better than expected, rising 11% to $414 million. A $2.8bn gain from the sale of the company’s ... read more ...
Thu 18th October 2012
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Google Leaks Earnings Early & Stock Drops 10%: Paid Clicks Up 33%; Cost Per Click Down 15%: Has $45 Billion In The Bank - Operating income, operating margin, net income, and earnings per share (EPS) are reported on a GAAP and non-GAAP basis. The non-GAAP measures, as well as free cash flow, an alternative non-GAAP measure of liquidity, are described below and are reconciled to the corresponding GAAP measures at the end of this release.       Q3 Financial Highlights Revenues and other information – On a consolidated basis, Google Inc. revenues for the quarter ended September 30, 2012 was $14.10 billion, an increase ... read more ...
Thu 27th September 2012
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Directi’s Media.net Teams Up With Yahoo To Launch Yahoo! Bing Network Contextual Ads - Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO)  and Media.net announced today “a long-term agreement to launch Yahoo! Bing Network Contextual Ads, powered by Media.net.” “The program aims to provide web publishers with a powerful and effective new solution for earning advertising revenue.” “Publishers can now use the Media.net platform to create and customize ad units that display relevant text ads from across the Yahoo! Bing Network.” “Since its inception, Media.net has invested tremendous resources – people, ... read more ...
Mon 24th September 2012
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Shares of Google Hits All Time High - Shares of Google (Goog) traded as high as $748.99 today passing the previous all time high of $747 back in 2007. It was just a couple of weeks ago we posted that Google shares had hit $700 an amount not seen since 2007. So Google is on a tear up over 6% just since our post on September 7th. At the time of publication Google is up over $12 a share at $746.76     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Fri 7th September 2012
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Google Shares Back Over $700 - Shares of Google.com are up almost $10 as the time of publication breaking the $700 mark for the 1st time since 2007. Google all time high is $747 a share in 2007. Google’s 52 week low is $480 a share.     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...