Tag Archives: Publicly Traded Domain Co

Thu 23rd August 2012
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Google Ads Planner Changes Go Into Effect On Sep 5th & They Don’t Sound Good - According to SearchEngineWatch.com, Google Ad Planner customers have been receiving email notifications that changes are coming to the tool September 5. Including that  users will no longer be able to research domains or ad placements that are not part of the Google Display Network. Demographic data is being reduced. Users will no longer have access to Keywords Searched For, Videos Also Watched, Household Income or Education. The Publisher Center, which allows users to claim their own sites, will ... read more ...
 
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Class Action Lawfirm “Investigating” Demand Media, Inc. To See If It “Violated Securities Laws” - According to a press release,  a class action lawfirm, Branham Law, LLP, “announced today it is investigating Demand Media, Inc. (NYSE: DMD) to determine whether it has violated securities laws by issuing false and misleading statements to its shareholders.” “This investigation is a result of disclosures made about changes to Google’s search engine methodologies that have significantly reduced the references to the Company’s websites. References to the Company’s websites are a substantial ... read more ...
Tue 21st August 2012
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Report: IAC Gets Into Bidding War With Answers.com Over About.com & Demand Maybe Interested Too - According to a report from Reuters.com today Bary Diller’s IAC is getting into a bidding war with Answers.com over About.com and Demand Media, Inc. may have interest in About.com as well. Reuters.com is saying that Interactive corp (IAC) submitted an offer in excess of $300 million to buy About.com from the New York Times Co. Answers.com reportedly offered $270 million a week ago. The report says that a “number of companies including Demand Media Inc had proactively approached About.com” “Representatives ... read more ...
Thu 16th August 2012
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August 16th For Facebook Insiders: Happy Facebook Unlock Up Day - Today is the day where insiders of Facebook (FB) which acquired shares prior to the IPO can start selling them. Typically shares received of a private company are restricted from being sold until 6 months after the company goes public. Usually these shares are held by true insiders of a company; their officers, directors and shareholders but in the case of Facebook there was a lot of VC money, angel investors and due to sites like SecondMarket.com which we talked about a couple of years ago, a lot ... read more ...
Mon 13th August 2012
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Tucows Reports: Revenue Up 22% & YummyNames.com Sells $1.6 Million In Domains - Tucows Inc. (NYSE AMEX:TCX) (TC.TO), reported its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2012 after the market closed today. Net revenue for the second quarter of 2012 increased 22% to a record $28.2 million from $23.0 million for the second quarter of 2011 and was driven by growth in each of the Company’s three service categories. Tucows sold just about $1.6 million in domains for the three months ending June 30, 2012 Net income for the second quarter of 2012 was $0.7 million, ... read more ...
Wed 8th August 2012
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Demand Media’s White Paper On New gTLD’s - Demand Media, Inc. published a white paper (pdf) on the new gTLD’s today and I found it an interesting read. The paper is entitled: “The Opportunity for generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) Some of the highlights: “After years of planning and debate, a big change is coming to the way organizations and individuals identify themselves online. The characters to the right of the last dot — known in the industry as the Top Level Domain (TLD) — are being opened up to accommodate a new way of thinking. ... read more ...
Fri 27th July 2012
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Neustar Reports: Revenue Up 40% & Has $235 Million In a Bank - Neustar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR), announced results for the quarter ended June 30, 2012 and increased its guidance for full-year 2012. Neustar operates several TLD’s including .biz and .Us and was the back end provider with the most number of new gTLD applications: GAAP Results for Second Quarter 2012 Compared to Second Quarter 2011 Revenue increased 40% to $206.5 million Income from continuing operations increased 15% to $38.6 million Income from continuing operations per diluted share increased 27% ... read more ...
Thu 26th July 2012
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Verisign Reports: Revenue Up 13%: 118.5 Million .com/.net Domains & Has A 50% Profit Margin - VeriSign, Inc. (VRSN), the company that has the contract to run the .com and .net registries, reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2012 after the market closed. VeriSign, Inc. reported revenue of $214 million for the second quarter of 2012, up 13% from the same quarter in 2011. “Verisign reported net income of $68 million and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.42 for the second quarter of 2012, compared to a net loss of $(11) million and diluted net loss per share ... read more ...
Thu 19th July 2012
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Google Reports: Revenues Up 35%, Paid Clicks Up 42%; Cost Per Click Down 16%; $43 Billion In The Bank - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2012. As you will see below total revenue was up 35% paid clicks were up 42% but the cost per click was down 16%. Google ended the quarter with $43 Billion in the bank and with the acquisition of Motorola now has almost 55,000 employees Share of Google which we up over 2% during trading today are up over 3% again in aftermarket trading at $615 (previous close $580). As the leading monetization company in ... read more ...
Tue 17th July 2012
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Yahoo Reports Flat Revenue - After the market closed today Yahoo.com (YHOO) reported its results for the quarter ending June 30, 2012 and in one word the results were “flat” Even shares of the company are trading after hours basically Flat. Q2 revenue missed consensus estimates slightly, but earnings per share that topped expectations. Revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs (“Revenue ex-TAC”) was $1,081 million for the second quarter of 2012, flat compared to the second quarter of 2011. GAAP revenue was $1,218 million ... read more ...
Mon 16th July 2012
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Yahoo Hires Google Exec Marissa Mayer As CEO - “I am honored and delighted to lead Yahoo, one of the internet’s premier destinations for more than 700 million users,” Ms. Mayer said in a statement. “I look forward to working with the Company’s dedicated employees to bring innovative products, content, and personalized experiences to users and advertisers all around the world.” ! Co-Founder David Filo said, “Marissa is a well-known, visionary leader in user experience and product design and one of Silicon Valley’s most exciting ... read more ...
Tue 3rd July 2012
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Microsoft Could Have Bought The Domain Industry For Less, Instead It Bought aQuantive & Lost Over 6 Billion - Back in 2008 we made the suggestion that Microsoft (MSFT) which was then sitting on $46 Billion should spent what we estimated would be less than $5 Billion and buy out all the top domain name portfolio’s, thereby shifting percentages of traffic away from Google for its own search engine. Unfortunately Microsoft didn’t follow our advice. However a few months Microsoft blew $6.3 Billion by buying  aQuantive,  an ad agency which was seen as a DoubleClick competitor. I say they blew the $6.3 Billion ... read more ...
Mon 2nd July 2012
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RBC Report On New gTLD’s “Could Be A Game-Changer For The Domain Registry & Registrar Businesses” - The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)  published a fascinating report (pdf) today on the gTLD business. The report is entitled: “Say .anything – Opening Up the gTLD Landscape” and subtitled: “Examining the potential value the new gTLD initiative creates for Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) and Web.com (WWWW)” Its a 17 page report which you of course should check out in its entirety since it is a very interesting look into the business of domain name registrar and registries and offers some huge estimates ... read more ...
Fri 22nd June 2012
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Marchex Gets Sued By The Stratosphere Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas Over a Domain AcePlay.com - According to the LasvVegasSun.com, the owner of the Stratosphere hotel-casino in Las Vegas has filed  suit against Marchex (MCHX) for alleged trademark infringement over the domain name AcePlay.com The suit says Marchex has been using a domain name called Aceplay.com, purporting to offer information about the Stratosphere and three other American Casino properties; the two Arizona Charlie’s in Las Vegas and the Aquarius in Laughlin. According to the article, links on the site produce additional ... read more ...
Fri 15th June 2012
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Our Chat With Demand Media About Their Apps For: .Airforce, .Navy., Republican, .Democrat, .Kaufen, .Moda, .Moto - We reached out to Demand Media, Inc. to get some more information on some of the new gTLD’s they applied for. Leyla Farah  was nice enough to respond on behalf of Demand. Here is the email interview: Q: There are some applications made by Demand that strike me as quite strange. Can anyone chat about the thoughts and business plan behind the new gTLD’s Demand applied for like: .airforce .navy Are you doing these on behalf of the armed forces or with the consent of them? If not don’t you expect ... read more ...
Wed 13th June 2012
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Demand Media On Its New gTLD’s Applications: “We Are Very Pleased” - Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) just released a statement regarding the ICANN Big Reveal and the new gTLD’s they applied for: “Demand Media is the only applicant for 16 of its 26 total applications for new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs).” “We are very pleased with today’s results.” “We selected our TLDs based on data-driven algorithms that leveraged our leading registrar and content platforms to determine what domains small businesses and consumers were demanding,” said Taryn Naidu, EVP, Demand ... read more ...
Mon 11th June 2012
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Marchex Hits 52 Week Low - Shares of Marchex traded as low as $3.13 today setting a new 52 week low for the company Marchex market cap is now only $106 Million well below what it paid for Yun Ye’s portfolio many years ago. The 52 week high for the company is $10.97. Marchex’s volume at noon, is already 3X the average trading volume.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media Applies For 26 gTLD’s & Is Partners With Donuts, Inc. on 107 New gTLD’s - According to a press release out this morning Demand Media (DMD), announced that it has applied for  26 new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). “The company selected gTLD names in categories connected to an extremely broad range of interests and capabilities including: ecommerce, personal professional identity, education, entertainment, internet life, sports, small business and social media.” In addition to the 26 gTLD’s Demand Media applied for, they also “entered into a strategic arrangement ... read more ...
Fri 1st June 2012
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Top Level Domain Holdings Becomes Largest New gTLD Applicant To Date Applying For 68 Strings - According to a press release sent this morning, Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) applied for 68 new gTLD’s on its on behalf and a submitted total of 92 applications. In addition to 68 application it filed on its own behalf, the company submitted 5 gTLD geographic applications for or in association with the cities of London, Miami, and Budapest, together with the German States of Bayern and Nord-Rhein Westfalen, all with the backing of each city or region’s governing body. The company also filed ... read more ...
Thu 31st May 2012
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Google Applies For 50 New gTLD’s - According to Adage.com Google has applied for 50 new gTLD’s altogether, including those reported by other media outlets. .Google, .Youtube, .Lol and .Docs are the only 4 new gTLD’s that Google announced on its blog today, so they have 46 more they aren’t releasing information on today. You can check out the full Adage.com story here.     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Thu 24th May 2012
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Google Promises More Transparency For Advertisers - Google has just promised more transparency for advertisers on its blog.  (Still nothing for publishers) The new report promisses to: Provides Impression Share at the keyword level A new Auction Insights Report which will provide competitor data. In-depth is the Top of page rate. Here is the post: A key component of developing a search ads strategy is understanding what other advertisers are doing, and using this intelligence to optimize campaigns for top performance. To empower advertisers to make ... read more ...
Thu 17th May 2012
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Facebook Prices IPO At $38 A Share With a $104 Billion Market Cap - Facebook priced its IPO at $38 a share, raising $16 billion which will be the third largest IPO in U.S. history and the largest ever IPO by a U.S. technology company. It will start trading tomorrow under the symbol:  FB At $38 a share Facebook is valued at $104 Billion dollars. At $38 Facebook will trade at more than 100x of earnings or PE For comparison sake here are the some market caps PE of some other high tech companies based on today’s closing price: Apple $495 Billion  PE 13 Microsoft ... read more ...
Mon 14th May 2012
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Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Resigns - The CEO of Yahoo Scott Thompson resigned tonight according to a  report in the Wall Steet Journal.  He told the company  that he has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Ross Levinsohn was named as interim Chief Executive Officer. Here is the press release: “”Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) today announced that the Board of Directors has named Fred Amoroso as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Ross Levinsohn as interim Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. . Mr. Amoroso replaces Roy ... read more ...
Tue 8th May 2012
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Demand Media Reports: Beats Expectations Sends Stock Soaring & Spends $18M On New gTLD’s - Demand Media, Inc. (NYSE: DMD)  just reported its earnings for the 1st Q of 2012 beating expectations and sending the stock soaring in aftermarket trading up almost 20% Some interesting stuff in this report including that Demand invested $18 Million in new gTLD’s. Previously Demand reported it was allocating $5 Million for new gTLD’s meaning that they were going to apply for some 25 new gTLD’s but now at $18 Million Demand is going to be one of the biggest players for new gTLD program as this ... read more ...
 
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Tucows Reports Revenue Up 22% & YummyNames Sells $1.9 Million In Domains - Tucows.com (AMEX: TCX) reported its earnings for the 1st quarter of 2012 after the market closed today. “Net revenue for the first quarter of 2012 increased 22% to a record $27.5 million from $22.6 million.” “Net income for the first quarter of 2012 was $1.7 million, or $0.04 per share, compared with net income for the first quarter of 2011 of $0.7 million, or $0.01 per share.  Net income for the first quarter of 2012 benefitted from other income of $0.5 million resulting from the sale of ... read more ...