Tag Archives: RightSide

Thu 9th July 2015
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.News Gets At Least 45 Registrations On Day 1 Of EAP At $10K+ - Looks like the new gTLD .News is going to be a big winner for Rightside (NAME). The 1st day of the Early Access Program is about to close at 1pm EST today where people could get first shot at registering domain names at a wholesale cost of $10,000 per (retail price varies by registrar, plus any premium registration cost, if any). As of the last zone file update we found 45 domain names that were registered yesterday July 8th, the 1st day of EAP. Interestedly almost all the domain name registered ... read more ...
Tue 7th July 2015
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From CBS to CNN To Fox To Google: New gTLD .News Has Almost 500 Sunrise Registrations - The new gTLD .News enters the Early Access Program (EAP) for Rightside Tomorrow, Wednesday July 8th with the highest number of Sunrise domain registrations the registry has had in any of its new domain name extensions, just short of 500. Matt Overman of Rightside told TheDomains.com, “out of our entire portfolio of 36 active TLDs, .NEWS had the greatest number of Sunrise registrations, clocking in at 498.” “We placed an estimated 75% of our premium .NEWS domain on a special list of non-premium-priced ... read more ...
Fri 26th June 2015
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Name.com runs intelligent .News promotion - Other registries and registrars should take a look at this promotion. Name.com is running a well-designed marketing contest for free .News domain names. Competitors should take note. The domain name registrar is giving away 100 free non-premium .news domain names when the top level domain releases to the public next month. In order to get one of the free domains, people have to go to a webpage and enter their email address. They’ll then be given a place in line, and the top 100 people in line on ... read more ...
Thu 18th June 2015
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Rightside Spent $54M On New gTLD's Got Back $29M By Withdrawing Apps - Bizjournals.com, just covered Rightside (Nasdaq: NAME) and there is some good information in the article some of which I had not read before “Rightside spent $54.18 million on gTLDs over the past three years. The company got back about $29 million of that by withdrawing applications on some domains” With its partner in certain strings Donuts, Rightside applied or had part interest in 133 new gTLD applications. Rightside secured 39 new gTLD strings and is still negotiating on another 26. One of ... read more ...
Wed 17th June 2015
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.News reward list slimmed down, here are 37k that didn't make a cut - Rightside slims down premium list for .News, and some good domains will be available at regular prices. Rightside’s upcoming .News top level domain name launch should be one to watch. .News works with many terms, giving it big potential for second level domain name registrations. Retail pricing is also a reasonable $20-$30. I’ve commented before about how Rightside has managed to capture just about every good domain in its TLDs and stick a premium on them. The company is taking a different tack ... read more ...
Mon 8th June 2015
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Rightside CEO Taryn Naidu – DNW Podcast #36 - A discussion with the CEO of Rightside, the company behind eNom and Name.com, a whole bunch of top level domain names, and part-owner of NameJet. My guest this week is Taryn Naidu, CEO of publicly traded domain name company Rightside. Rightside owns domain name registrars eNom and Name.com and is a part-owner of expired domain name marketplace NameJet. The company also owns a portfolio of 300,000 domains. Rightside is the biggest backend registry for new top level domain names and has launched its ... read more ...
Sat 30th May 2015
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State of Washington Says Domain Registrations Are Subject To Sales Tax - According to a ruling from the State of Washington this week “Internet domain name registration services are generally subject to retail sales or use tax. This article only addresses the initial sale of a domain name by a registrar. The Domain Name System helps users find their way around the Internet. Every computer on the Internet has a unique address, called an Internet Protocol (IP) address. Website owners then buy an easy-to-remember domain name. For example, instead of typing in an IP address ... read more ...
Thu 28th May 2015
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.ninja Turns 1 W/ 35% Domains Pointing To Active Websites - Rightside has just published a news release that mentions that .ninja is celebrating its first birthday! With the birthday announcement comes some numbers for the new TLD: “In the last year, more than 48,000 .NINJA domain extensions have been secured, and 35 percent of domain names point to active websites. .NINJA is one of the top 25 most registered new TLDs and is rapidly growing among marital arts studios, business and creative agencies such as internetmarketing.ninja, a marketing agency out ... read more ...
Fri 8th May 2015
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3D.Software domain name sells for $100,000+ - Big sale illustrates value of premium strategy for new TLD operators. Rightside has sold the domain name 3D.software for a six figure sum, CEO Taryn Naidu revealed on the company’s quarterly financial results call yesterday. The domain name was purchased by Visual Dynamics, a company that creates 3D software used for design. 3D.software resolves to a site similar to Visual Dynamics’ original site, VisualDynamics.com. According to DomainTools’ historical whois records, the domain name was transferred ... read more ...
Thu 7th May 2015
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Rightside Made $7.2 Million On Losing New gTLD Auctions: Name.com Revenue Up 30% - Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq: NAME), today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2015. Share are up fractionally in aftermarket trading. First Quarter 2015 Financial Highlights Registrar services revenue increased 12% to $42.0 million compared to $37.5 million primarily due to new gTLD registrations, improved performance by existing resellers and the continued onboarding of eNom wholesale partners. Registry services revenue increased to $1.6 million compared to $42 thousand. Aftermarket ... read more ...
 
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Rightside posts profit, gets $7.2 million from withdrawing new TLDs - Rightside posts profit and gets big haul from withdrawing new top level domain name applications. Rightside released first quarter earnings after the bell today. The company posted an adjusted EBITDA of $0.6 million and a GAAP profit of $1.9 million. Revenue from Registrar Services (i.e. eNom and Name.com) was $42.0 million, up from $37.5 million in the same quarter last year. Registry Services (i.e. new top level domains and backend services) revenue was $1.6 million, up from just $42,000 in the ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD 1st Day Domain Names Totals: .Video 3,271 & .Sale 2,160 - Rightside launched two new gTLD domain name extensions into general availability (GA) yesterday .Video and .Sale Including all domain name registered in the Sunrise Period by trademark holders and those that paid a higher fee during the Early Access Period (EAP) to register domains before GA .Video wound up with 3,271 domain name registered and .Sale has 2,160 registered domain names. .Video domain name registrations are priced at $34.99 while .Sale is priced at $22.99 at Enom.com Rightside now has ... read more ...
Wed 29th April 2015
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.Video Hits EAP Today & 85% Of All Premiums Are Priced during $200 or Less - .Video is entered the Early Access Program (EAP) today (day 1) and based on the volume of Sunrise registrations and search data it would seem to be a pretty hot new gTLD. We counted some 460 domain registrations by trademark holders in the Sunrise period which is one of the largest to date. Beyond the number of Sunrise registrations the registrations themselves are telling The CBS family which includes Viacom, Showtime, MTV and Nickelodeon registered a lot of domains not just of the networks but ... read more ...
Mon 27th April 2015
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New TLDs this week: .Video, .Fit and .Sale - Minds + Machines and Rightside introduce new domain names this week. A few domain names hit general availability or Early Access this Wednesday. Minds + Machines will launch .Fit with retail pricing of about $25 or so. .Fit is one of the company’s wholly owned domain names, and is the last domain name the group has scheduled to launch until Q3. Rightside starts the Early Access phase for two domain names on Wednesday: .Video and .Sale. If you can wait one week until general availability you’ll ... read more ...
Fri 17th April 2015
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Rightside Looking To Cash in With .News - Jacob Demmitt wrote a post on the Upstart section of BizJournals.com. The article led with the launch of the .news extension and how Rightside plans to cash in. Taryn Naidu the CEO of Rightside is interviewed and gives some commentary. In the article which I quoted below, Naidu says we are seeing five and six figure sales. I would imagine he is talking about the Coffee.club and Wine.Club sales, I have not heard of a Rightside string selling for six figures. From the article: The company wouldn’t ... read more ...
Mon 23rd March 2015
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2 engaging new TLD-related videos - .Rocks, not .com, and .XYZ. I don’t have any cute cat videos to share with you this Monday, but I have a couple new top level domain name-related YouTube videos might interest readers. In the first one, one of the ten-year-old members of music band V² explains that their website is vsquared.rocks. Not .com, his brother explains: The second video is some footage of .XYZ’s #XYZsquad, commonly known as the purple people, at SXSW in Austin. .XYZ definitely upped the game with its purple people ... read more ...
Wed 18th March 2015
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2 impression domain names turn accessible today - Short domain names to be released today. Top level domain name company Rightside is releasing 20,000 two character domain names across its TLDs today at noon EDT. The two character domains to be released include at least one number in them, taking the form of NL.tld, LN.tld or NN.tld. That obviously limits the appeal compared to two letter domains, but two letter domains are still in limbo at ICANN. I would think the better domains are ones typically used as brands (e.g. A1) and ones with specific ... read more ...
Thu 19th February 2015
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Highlights from Rightside Q4 financier call - Domain name company Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) reported results today. Rightside reported fourth quarter and full year financials for 2014 after the bell today. The company had earnings of $1.5M for Q4, and adjusted EBITDA of $0.6M. For the year it turned in a net loss of ($1.9M) and adjusted EBITDA of ($3.1M). I just listened to the conference call, and here are some of the highlights from the quarter: The company got $7.8 million for losing new top level domain name auctions. In Q3 it reported $8.6 ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Reports 4Q Revenue Up 13.5%: Makes Almost $8 Million on Losing New gTLD Apps - Rightside reported its earnings for the 4th Quarter today and full year ended December 31, 2014 after the market closed. Domain Name Services Revenue Increases 16% Year-over-Year 4Q Total Revenue Increases 13.5% Year-over-Year Domain name services revenue for the three months ended December 31, 2014 increased 16% to $43.2 million compared to $37.2 million for the same period in 2013. Organic growth of 15%, which excludes the acquisition related benefit from Name.com, was primarily due to an increase ... read more ...
Mon 16th February 2015
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Google Wins a .Moto New gTLD Beating Rightside.co (NAME) For Its Motorola Division - Google has won the rights to operate the .Moto new gTLD beating United TLD Holdings which is now Rightside.co (NAME) in what we can only assume was a private contention auction. The new domain extension .Moto was scheduled to go to a ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Google of course owns Motorola and applied for .Moto to use as a closed extension as a .Brand application more than a generic. Here is what Google had to say about .Moto in its application to ICANN: “Charleston Road Registry ... read more ...
Mon 9th February 2015
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Web.com strikes understanding with investors, Rightside extends understanding with NameCheap - Web.com and Rightside reveal deals. Here’s some news about two publicly traded domain name companies. Web.com has struck a deal with Okumus Fund Management, which owns about 15% of the company’s shares, to add two new members to the board of directors. John Giuliani, the former CEO of Conversant and Rick Rudman, the former CEO of Vocus will join the board. Shares in Web.com (NASDAQ: WWWW) are down about 2% today, slightly above their 52 week low. In other news, competitor Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) ... read more ...
Tue 20th January 2015
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Pssst…Rightside expelled the name collision domain names - Many good domains on the list, but be prepared to pay a premium. While you were partying in Las Vegas at NamesCon last week, Rightside released its name collision domain names to the public. Sort of… As a bit of background, name collision domain names are ones that new top level domain operators had to hold back from registration at launch. The list includes domain names that, during a somewhat random window of time in history, received traffic. ICANN required the domain names to be held back for ... read more ...
Mon 5th January 2015
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This week’s 5 new Top Level Domain name launches - Two IDNs among this week’s TLD launches. It’s the first full week of the new year, and that means a handful of top level domain name companies are releasing domain names. On Tuesday, January 6, موقع. will hit general availability. This string is Arabic for “site”.101Domain has the domains for about $50. On Wednesday, January 7, three domains will launch in Early Access Programs. Donuts launches .world, which I suppose has similar uses to .place and .zone. Rightside ... read more ...
Tue 30th December 2014
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Yikes: Rightside Falls Below $7 A Shares Hitting Another All Time Low: Down 30%+ In 6 Weeks - Shares of Rightside (NAME) which we actually own some of have been falling like a rock. Today shares fell below $7 which I guess stock market guys might call a support level, hitting an intraday all time low of $6.73. Shares have recovered slightly and are trading as of publication at $6.83. Volume is like yesterday, when the shares hit that $7 a share number, before closing at $7.10 trading just over 80,000 shares with less than 1 1/2 hours left in the trading session which is below the 3 month ... read more ...
Mon 22nd December 2014
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New TLDs this week: Two launch on Christmas Eve - I wonder how many dentists will be registering domain names on Christmas Eve? Two new top level domain names launch this week, both on Christmas Eve and both from Rightside. .Dentist and .Rehab exit the Early Access Program on Wednesday and revert to regular pricing. The .dentist domains appear to be priced a little bit higher than most Rightside domains. GoDaddy is quoting a regular price of $49.99 and a sale price of $34.99. 101Domain quotes a $37.99 price. Compare ... read more ...