Tag Archives: RightSide

Thu 11th December 2014
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6 new tip turn domain names launched yesterday, and a many renouned is… - Six new domain options launched, and you might be surprised by which one had the best first day. Donuts and Rightside combined to launch six top level domain names yesterday. Rightside launched .auction and .software. Donuts launched .business, .immo, .network and .pizza. Guess which one had the most registrations? If you’re an English speaker, you probably guessed wrong. According to nTLDstats, .immo ended the “zone file” day with the most registrations at ... read more ...
Wed 10th December 2014
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A outline of unequivocally engaging information in Rightside’s Investor Presentation - Investor presentation shows initial results from five of Rightside’s TLDs, explains how the company picked TLDs to acquire, and describes the method used to identify premium domain names. One of the great things about having publicly traded domain name companies is that we can get more data from the companies than we can from private ones. Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) is a prime example. Rightside held its first Investor Analyst Day last Friday. You can view the entire ... read more ...
Tue 9th December 2014
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Analyst reiterates new TLD foresee and cost aim for Rightside - After Rightside investor day, analyst says forecast is on target. B. Riley Co analyst Sameet Sinha has reiterated his forecast for new top level domain names and his $15 price target for Rightside. Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) is currently trading for $8.29. Sinha forecasts that 29.1 million registrations will be made under new to level domain names by the end of 2016. Based on 3.4 million domains registered to date, he believes his forecast of 3.6 million by the end ... read more ...
 
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Donuts and Rightside recover 6 new domains on Wednesday - …And they’re some of the better domains released so far. Remember the good ole’ days of the middle of 2014, when mega-registry Donuts would release four of five new top level domain names every week? Well, they’re back. For one week, anyway. Donuts will launch four new domain names at “regular” pricing this week after the conclusion of their early access phases: .business, .network, .immo and .pizza. .Business and .Network are interesting because they ... read more ...
Mon 8th December 2014
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Despite Fanfare In New York, Shares of Rightside Get No Pop In Price or in Volume -                                           The domain name industry blogs covered Rightside (NAME) exposure in New York last week, which included presenting to the street and ringing the closing bell at the NASDAQ which was covered here, here, here, and here just to name a few and in press releases and financial publications like TheStreet.com. There were some great pictures of Rightside appearing in the Times Square billboards as well like the one above However today none of ... read more ...
 
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Rightside rings NASDAQ shutting bell [Photo] - Domain name company holds investor day and rings closing bell. On Friday, domain name company Rightside rang the closing bell on the NASDAQ. The company became listed on the NASDAQ earlier this year after being spun off from Demand Media. Rightside trades under the ticker ‘NAME’. Earlier in the day Friday, Rightside held its first Investor Analyst Day event at Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square. Rightside is pitching new top level domain names as the future, and ... read more ...
Fri 5th December 2014
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Rightside CEO Taryn Naidu talks to TheStreet.com -

Taryn Naidu sat down with TheStreet.com and discussed what was going on with Rightside and a new gtlds. One of a initial things a interviewer asks if there is any status around .com ? Naidu replies that .com has no definition and it takes 6 to 8 searches to find an accessible .com right now.

Watch a video below

Via: thedomains.com

Thu 4th December 2014
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Rightside (Nasdaq: NAME) to Ring Closing Bell At Nasdaq Tomorrow - In honor of the occasion, Taryn Naidu, Chief Executive Officer, will ring the Closing Bell. Nasdaq MarketSite – 4 Times Square – 43rd Broadway – Broadcast Studio When: Friday, December 5, 2014 – 3:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET For multimedia features such as exclusive content, photo postings, status updates and video of bell ceremonies please visit our Facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/NASDAQ. For photos from ceremonies and events visit our Instagram Page: http://instagram.com/nasdaq For ... read more ...
Tue 2nd December 2014
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Cyber Monday propels .Rocks to 17% daily gain - Rightside markets .rocks heavily as it finds an audience. It’s interesting watching for anomalies in new top level domain name registrations. Consider yesterday, when the zone for Rightside’s .rocks top level domain grew by almost 17% (3,817 new domains in the zone, per DomainIncite). That’s a lot of new domains, even when you consider Rightside registry as a whole. Here’s a chart from nTLDstats showing Rightside’s daily registration volume across all of ... read more ...
Thu 20th November 2014
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Rightside shares strike new low - Domain name company isn’t getting much love from Wall Street. Shares of domain name company Rightside have dropped 15% this week, and hit an all time low of $8.33 in trading yesterday. Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) is trading for $8.55 per share this afternoon. It’s unclear what caused the sharp drop this week. Rightside reported earnings after the bell on November 6, and shares climbed the next day. The company filed its 10-Q with the SEC last Friday. I could not ... read more ...
Tue 11th November 2014
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Former CEO Of Vegas.com Releasing “Revolutionary Global Booking Platform” On New gTLD’s - Howard Lefkowitz, the former CEO of Vegas.com, announced today that his new company, One Degree World™ Systems, Inc., which describes itself as “architects and owners of a revolutionary global content and booking platform, will be the first company of its kind to launch a series of holistic hospitality and travel websites on the emerging top-level domains (TLDs) other than .com. ” One Degree also announced it will manage over 1,000 .Vegas domain names, over 300 .Buzz domain names and an undisclosed ... read more ...
 
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Bandzoogle Partnering With Rightside to Offer .ROCKS and .BAND Domains and Websites for Musicians and Bands - Rightside and Bandzoogle announced a partnership where Bandzoogle will offer .Rocks and .Band new gtlds to musicians and bands that use their services. From the release: Bandzoogle is offering Rightside’s Top Level Domains (TLDs) to its customers, beginning with .ROCKS, a new web extension that launched earlier this year, and .BAND, which will open for pre-registration later this month. The company will incorporate the new domains into its offering that helps musicians, bands, ensembles, DJs, ... read more ...
Thu 6th November 2014
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Rightside (NAME) Is Up 20% In After Hours Trading - After its first earnings report as a public company, Rightside (NAME) is up about 20% in after hours trading. Rightside is currently trading at $11.26 up $1.85 from its closing price of $9.41 Rightside has a 52 week low is $8.96 and its 52 week high of $17 but just started trading on August 1st 2014. Here are the highlights: Rightside reported 16 Million domains under management through its registrars. Over all Rightside’s registrars are experiencing a 75.2% renewal rate overall. The new gTLD gave ... read more ...
 
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Rightside’s 1st Earnings Report: Revenue Up 15%: Makes $8.6 Million By Losing gTLD Apps - Rightside Group, Ltd. (NAME) announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2014. Rightside is the company that was spun off from Demand Media, Inc, (DMD) which owns the domain name registrars Enom.com and Name.com, and owns a bunch of new gTLD’s and is the backend provider for Donuts which just passed one million domain name registrations This is Rightside first earnings as a separate public company. Here are the highlights: Domain name services revenue for the three ... read more ...
 
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Rightside earnings: 15 TLDs beget $2.5 million, clever eNom performance - Rightside grows its eNom business, new TLDs generate $2.5 million in revenue as of end of Q3. Rightside released third quarter earnings after the bell today. Revenue for the third quarter came in at $48.8 million, up from $45.5 million in the same quarter last year and $46.7 million in the second quarter of 2014. The company swung to a profit with a $4.1 million bottom line. However, its adjusted EBITDA — which presumably is a key metric it wants to be valued on ... read more ...
Thu 23rd October 2014
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Yesterday’s 5 new TLD launches sum about 2,500 registrations - A slow start, but some of these domains have long term potential. Five new top level domain names launched yesterday, and they combined for a total registration base of just 2,500 after the end of the “zone day”. This includes sunrise and landrush, plus the initial hours of general availability. Donuts’ .healthcare ended the day with about 1,400 registrations (all stats from nTLDstats). I’m a bit curious about .healthcare. There’s a growing chorus of concern ... read more ...
Wed 22nd October 2014
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86% Of Lawyers Not “Eager” to Get a .Lawyer/.Attorney Name? That Only Leave 200K That Want One - My fellow domain Blogger Konstantinos Zournas of OnlineDomain.com cited a poll on his site today in a post entitled: “83% Of Lawyers Not Eager To Get .Lawyer Or .Attorney Domains” Konstantinos which is doing a great job this year on his blog, seemed to have fallen for a poll whose results are statically fatally faulted. Konstantinos did not conduct the poll, the poll was conducted by Law Times News but was the basis for Konstantinos post. If you read some stuff on poll theory  (as a Political ... read more ...
Mon 20th October 2014
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Rightside Partners With CloudCannon.com - According to a press release out today Rightside (NAME) has partnered with CloudCannon.com which just received $500,000 in funding from “some leading New Zealand investors including Sam Morgan, Phil McCaw, Stephen Tindall and Simon Holdsworth” “On a technical level, the partnership also allows CloudCannon to streamline one of the trickiest parts of setting up a website – domain name and DNS settings – and make it as seamless as the rest of the CloudCannon experience.” Dwayne Walker, Senior ... read more ...
Fri 17th October 2014
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When It Comes To Rightside, One Seeking Alpha Author Believes The Market Doesn’t Realize How Useful GLTDs Are And How Adoption Affects Earnings - Summary After quitting low quality ad service the company is bleeding cash with razor thin margins on its current business. GTLDs represent a major shift in the way domains are used on the Internet. The company bought the right to function as a registry for 33 unique gTLDs which is a major difference from its registrar business. Revenue per gLTD domain sold is between $20-$30 instead of $1 for a traditional TLD. Because of the tremendous operating leverage within the business model a major % of ... read more ...
Wed 15th October 2014
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Do-Over: 2 TLD apps that mislaid in objections get another chance - .Cam and Amazon IDN domain name decisions will be reviewed. ICANN is giving two new top level domain name applications another look after embarrassing inconsistencies in string confusion objections. The board’s new TLD committee determined that decisions against Amazon.com’s .通販 application and Rightside’s .cam should be reviewed. I provide the background to this story in detail here. In the case of .cam, Verisign succeeded in a string confusion objection ... read more ...
Thu 18th September 2014
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Donuts wants to obvious Domain Protected Marks List - Registry files patent application for brand protection tool. Donuts wants to patent the Domain Protected Marks List (DPML), a service that helps brand owners prevent their trademarks from being registered across multiple top level domains. The company filed U.S. patent application 13/804919 (pdf) in March 2013 for “Domain Protected Marks List Based Techniques For Managing Domain Name Registrations”. The application was published today. DPML allows brand owners ... read more ...
Mon 15th September 2014
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This is a biggest week nonetheless for new TLDs (16 domains!) - 16 domains hit the market this week. At the end of last month, I wrote about how the next 50 days would be important for new TLDs. Within that 50 days, this week is perhaps the biggest: 16 domain names will enter general availability. Call it Launch Week, and it’s really big for two of the portfolio applicants who launch their first owned-and-operated batches. Let’s get to it. Monday It’s a big day for publicly traded Minds + Machines (LSE: MMX). Last week ... read more ...
Sat 13th September 2014
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SeekingAlpha: Shares of Rightside Have At Least 37% Downside - SeekingAlpha the Stock publication, just published a pretty scathing review of Rightside, (NASDAQ:NAME) the spin off of Demand Media, in a story entitled “Rightside is Its Trending on the Wrongside.” The story cites some publications in the domain industry including TheDomains.com Domainincite.com and Circleid.com The story comcludes comparing the company on the Registrar level to Tucows the registrars enom.com and name.com have no value and concloudes that the stock has at least 37% downside. Share ... read more ...
Tue 26th August 2014
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Rightside signs new Google domain parking agreement - Company says material terms are “substantially similar” to the prior agreement. Rightside, parent company of eNom and domain parking platform HotKeys, has signed a new domain name parking agreement with Google. In an SEC filing, the company stated that the agreement is similar to the one it replaces: In general, the material terms of the Agreement are substantially similar to the Prior Agreement, including compliance with Google’s policies, maintenance of service ... read more ...
Tue 19th August 2014
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Are industry-specific resellers a destiny of domain name registration? - Niche resellers and registrars are key for selling industry-specific domain names. Many of the new top level domain names coming to market are targeted to particular industries: .photography for photographers, .plumbing for plumbers, .solar for the solar industry. Selling these domain names through mass market domain name registrars is tricky. The domain names are unlikely to come up high in search results unless a particular keyword closely matches the TLD. Unless ... read more ...