Tag Archives: RightSide

Tue 19th August 2014
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The state of a domain name industry - My views on domain parking, domain sales, registrars and registries. I’ve been collecting my thoughts on the domain name business over the past month, and it’s time to put them down in writing. Here’s what I think about the state of the domain name industry in August, 2014. Domain parking is down. Way down. But don’t confuse down with out. We’re still talking about a relatively big business. Rook Media’s acquisition of DomainSponsor and its domain name ... read more ...
Thu 7th August 2014
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Rightside Reports: Revenue adult 13% But Aftermarket Revenue Decreases 40% - Rightside Group, Ltd. (NAME), today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2014. Rightside became an independent, publicly traded company on August 1, 2014 as a result of the completion of its spin-off from Demand Media, Inc.(R) (DMD) so this is the first earnings report by Rightside as a separate operating public company. Shares of Rightside fell over 3% in trading today closing at $14 a share. Rightside now owns and operates the former domain name services business of ... read more ...
 
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Rightside/Enom Enters Into $30 Million Dollar Credit Agreement w/Silicon Valley Bank - According to an announcement just out, after the market closed Rightside Group, Ltd. (the “Company”), its domestic subsidiaries Rightside Operating Co. and eNom, Incorporated (together with the Company, the “U.S. Borrowers”) and its foreign subsidiaries DMIH Limited, United TLD Holdco Ltd. and Rightside Domains Europe Limited (collectively, the “Non-U.S. Borrowers” and together with the U.S. Borrowers, the “Borrowers”) entered into a credit agreement and related security and other ... read more ...
 
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Rightside only expelled the initial gain report - Revenue and earnings slip year-over-year, but that was expected. Rightside today released its first quarterly earnings report after being spun off from Demand Media. The company, which started trading as NAME on the NASDAQ this Monday, posted total revenue of $46.7 million and a net loss of ($3.5) million. Both revenue and earnings were lower than what the group grossed in the second quarter of 2013, due to a sharp drop in its “Aftermarket” revenue. Aftermarket ... read more ...
 
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My takeaways from Rightside’s initial financier call - Naidu makes his pitch to analysts; company discloses some numbers on parking and domain sales. Rightside just concluded its first ever investor conference call as a standalone company. CEO Taryn Naidu and CFO Tracy Knox spent much of the time explaining Rightside’s market position to help frame the conversation with analysts. That market position is largely betting on the success of new top level domain names. The company explained how its margins as a registry ... read more ...
Tue 5th August 2014
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Rightside Names Board Of Directors - Rightside Group, Ltd., (NAME) today announced through a press release  the members of its board of directors and executive management team following the completion of Rightside’s spin-off from Demand Media, Inc.® on August 1, 2014. I Rightside Board of Directors Rightside’s board is composed of three independent members and two non-independent members. The board is structured with three standing board committees (an audit committee, a compensation committee, and a nominating and corporate governance ... read more ...
Mon 4th August 2014
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Rightside starts trade currently as NAME on a NASDAQ - A big day for Rightside (and the domain name industry). Today is a big day for domain name company Rightside as it begins to trade on the NASDAQ. Shares are down slightly right now to $15.65. Rightside has been spun off from Demand Media. Owners of Demand Media shares will get one Rightside share for every five Demand Media shares. (Demand is doing its own 5/1 reverse stock split, hence the Rightside allocation.) Shares in Rightside will trade under the ticker NAME. While ... read more ...
Sat 2nd August 2014
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Rightside promotes Matt Overman, hires Dwayne Walker - Former NameJet GM gets a promotion and Dwayne Walker jumps from Oversee.net to Rightside. Matt Overman, formerly General Manager of NameJet, has a new role at Rightside. According to Rightside’s Executive Leadership page, Overman is now VP GM, Aftermarket and Premium Domains. His bio describes his responsibilities as covering the “monetization and premium domain sales business”. In another domain name industry executive move, Dwayne Walker has joined Rightside ... read more ...
Tue 29th July 2014
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Finally, well-targeted new tip turn domain name marketing - Network Solutions’ pitches .republican domain names to owners of political domain names. A couple weeks ago I wrote about how Sedo did a new TLD promotion that registrars should be doing. Sedo looked at its existing customer base for people interested in buying and selling domain names with “club” in them and marketed .club to them. I finally have an example of a domain name registrar doing a similar thing: This goes a step further. Rather than just look for ... read more ...
Mon 28th July 2014
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As Rightside (futures) Starts Trading Its Market Cap Is 260M Of Demand’s $465M -                 Rightside, the spin off of Demand Media which begins formal trading on August 1, started to trade on Friday on a pre-issue basis on the symbol NAMEV. Although shares are lightly traded the price is $14.30 which is up from an opening of $14 a share. Interestingly the market cap of Rightside as its trading under NAMEV is $260 Million. Demand Media, Inc. is trading today at $5.12 a share with a total market cap including Rightside of $465 Million. Meaning that if the valuations ... read more ...
Tue 15th July 2014
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SeekingAlpha Issues Brutal Opinion On Demand Media/Rightside: “Titanic Will Hit The Iceberg” - SeekingAlpha.com published what can only be described as a brutal assessment on shares of Demand Media, Inc last yesterday after Demand said it would spin off its Rightside division into a separate public company on August 1st as well as on Rightside. The post entitled; Demand Media: Titanic Will Hit The Iceberg Here is are the conclusions from the article: “eHow.com and Livestrong.com continue to decline in page views and will have lower EBITDA in Q2 2014. Rightside reported negative EBITDA in ... read more ...
Mon 14th July 2014
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Demand Media spin-off of Rightside set for Aug 1 - Rightside’s debut as its own publicly-traded company is imminent. Demand Media plans to complete the spin-off of its domain name business on August 1. Rightside will become its own public company on that date. It will trade on the NASDAQ under the symbol “name”. Demand Media shareholders will receive one Rightside share for each five shares of Demand Media stock they own. Rightside owns a number of domain name businesses covering the entire spectrum of the ... read more ...
 
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New TLDs this week: .Bar, .Gripe, .Moda and more - Punto 2012 enters the race, a city TLD launches, and Rightside tries to be fashionable. The weekly deluge of new top level domain names hitting the market continues this week. This week is notable because a new entrant is finally launching two of its domain names. Monday Punto 2012 launched .bar and .rest today. The company’s nic.bar and nic.rest sites don’t have much information, but the domains appears to have broad registrar adoption. The domains aren’t ... read more ...
Thu 10th July 2014
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.Services domain name adult to 4,600 and .Pub 1,300 after one day - .Services runs out of the gate, .pub is toast-worthy. Two new top level domain names launched yesterday and both had fairly good days. Donuts launched .services, its only domain name to come out of the Early Access phase this week. It added roughly 4,000 domain names on the first day to hit 4,584. The domain name is in Donuts’ middle tier of pricing, so it will set you back about $25 to $40 depending on where you register it (NameCheap on the low end and GoDaddy ... read more ...
Thu 26th June 2014
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You can’t simply review Rightside and GoDaddy - Two soon-to-be public companies aren’t necessarily good comps for each other. Demand Media is getting ready to spin off its domain name business, Rightside. Competitor GoDaddy recently filed its S-1 for an initial public offering. It might be tempting to compare the two companies. After all, both of them are prominent in the domain name space. But when it comes to comps, Rightside and GoDaddy don’t match up. Here are some key distinctions between the two companies. GoDaddy ... read more ...
Mon 23rd June 2014
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Rightside to switch to EAP in lieu of normal landush - Domain name registry to switch up the phase between sunrise and general availability. Rightside, applicant for dozens of top level domain names, is replacing its traditional landrush phase with an Early Access Program (EAP). The switch will occur later this summer when the company releases .attorney and .lawyer. Prior domains launches will still have a normal landrush. EAP, which was pioneered by Donuts, is a sort of dutch auction. The seven day EAP period will have ... read more ...
Tue 17th June 2014
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Rightside releases Premium Domains during reg price for .Pub - Thousands of domains that would normally carry a premium are being offered at registration fee. Rightside, backer of an increasingly large pool of new TLDs, is trying something different with its upcoming launch of .Pub. The company’s previous new TLD launches have included reserved domains (called Platinum) and premium domains. The premium domains were sold through registrars but at higher prices that most domains. For .Pub, which just entered landrush, Rightside ... read more ...
Tue 10th June 2014
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Watch: .Ninjas invade X Games - .Ninja sponsors the X Games. We’ve talked quite a bit on this blog about the need for top level domain name registries to promote their new domain names to end users. Here’s a great example of a company doing just that. The X Games came to Austin for the first time this past weekend. The young audience is a great target for the .ninja domain name, and .Ninja owner Rightside was there promoting the new name. The company sponsored a laser tag center and had a booth ... read more ...
Mon 9th June 2014
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Demand Media spinoff Rightside to list on NASDAQ as “NAME”, scores some-more TLDs - NAME is coming soon to the NASDAQ. Demand Media moved one step closer to spinning off its Rightside domain name business today with the filing of an amended registration statement. The company plans to issue new shares for the spinoff that will trade on the NASDAQ under the ticker NAME. The SEC filing does not say how many shares of Rightside will be issued for each share of Demand Media stock. Demand Media plans a reverse stock split before the spin off. Rightside ... read more ...
Mon 2nd June 2014
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New TLDs on daub this week: .XYZ, .Futbol, .Dating and more - .XYZ joins the fray this week. A bunch of new top level domain names hit the market this week, especially on Wednesday. Monday It all starts today with the launch of .xyz. Daniel Negari is launching this generic domain and has set aggressive goals: 1 million registrations in the first year and five million in three years. You might think he’s crazy. Maybe he is. Yet I admire the passion and energy he’s putting in to it, and that’s a good thing for the domain’s ... read more ...
Thu 29th May 2014
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.Ninjas win Wednesday’s conflict of a new TLDs - Ninjas attack cruiselines and vacationers. Ninjas win. Seven new top level domain names hit the market yesterday, and the .Ninjas sliced their way to the most new registrations of any of them. .Ninja recorded 4,535 new registrations in the zone file, which is a pretty good measure of how many domains were registered. (Note: today I’m using data collated by Namestat.org. Some of my zone file access has expired. I, like many others, don’t know why they have to ... read more ...
Tue 27th May 2014
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This week in new TLDs: Ninjas and non-profits - A TLD.ninja’s overview of this week in new top level domain names. A handful of new top level domain names hit the market this week, and we’re not just talking about sprinkled donuts. Today Public Interest Registry launches three internationalized domain name (IDN) versions of its popular .org domain name: .орг Russian (Cyrillic) .संगठन Hindi (Devanagari) .机构 Simplified Chinese The domains are priced around $15 retail, but registrar coverage ... read more ...
Tue 20th May 2014
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If Your Looking For A Generic .Democrat, They Are In Short Supply & Carry Premium Prices - I was going though some generic .Democrat new gTLD domain names yesterday to see what premium generic domains are available for Preregistrations as the extension goes live tomorrow. Its expected that many candidates will grab their .Democrat domain name when running for office. However when it comes to generic domain names .Democrat domains are either not available as being on the collision list or being reserved by the registry or pretty damn expensive for domain investors as they carry premium ... read more ...
Mon 19th May 2014
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Big new TLDs week: .Luxury, Rightside and Travel Bonanza - An $800-per-year domain launches, Rightside hits GA, Donuts has a travel-focused week, and .best tries not to be .worst. Another big week is on tap for new top level domain including some new faces. Things get rolling today with general availability for .luxury. It’s a luxurious domain indeed, with a wholesale price of $400. Many registrars are charging a 100% mark-up, making the domain an $800 annual purchase. Luxury brands took advantage of reduced prices in the ... read more ...
Thu 17th April 2014
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Rightside’s initial dual domain names enter landrush - After supporting dozens of Donuts’ launches, Rightside is finally ready to play its own hand. Rightside’s first two top level domain names are getting closer to market. The company, currently part of Demand Media, launched .democrat and .dance in landrush today. Although these are the first two of its own domains to enter landrush, Rightside’s registry operations are handling the backend for Donuts’ domain names. Rightside is running a fairly traditional ... read more ...