Tag Archives: RightSide

Tue 25th February 2014
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Demand Reports: Registrar Revenue Increases 12% in 4Q and 10% Year-over-Year - Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2013. Q4 2013 Financial Summary: Total revenue ex-TAC declined 3% year-over-year, with 12% year-over-year growth in Registrar revenue offset by an 11% decline in Content Media revenue ex-TAC. Excluding the acquisitions of Society6 and Name.com, total revenue ex-TAC decreased 15%. Registrar revenue grew 12% year-over-year, primarily due to the addition of Name.com, which was acquired ... read more ...
 
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.Green and .Wedding row sets staid in multi-million dollar auctions - Two three-applicant contention sets are resolved. The .green and .wedding new top level domain name contention sets have been resolved in private auctions. It’s unclear which company won the .green auction as applications have not yet been withdrawn. However, Top Level Domain Holdings (Minds + Machines) announced today it was on the losing end of that auction. It used the proceeds from losing .green to spend millions on .wedding. After accounting for the proceeds ... read more ...
Wed 5th February 2014
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Rightside Announces They Have Over 40 Registrars On Board To Carry Their New gTLD’s - Rightside™, the domain name services business of Demand Media (NYSE: DMD), today announced new partnerships with many of the world’s leading registrars to bring its portfolio of new Top Level Domains (TLDs) to market. More than 40 registrars – including GoDaddy, Web.com, 11 and Host Europe, and Rightside affiliates eNom and Name.com have signed registrar agreements with Rightside Registry, creating an expansive and global distribution network. This agreement allows each registrar partner the ... read more ...
Mon 13th January 2014
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Demand Media Files With SEC To Spin Off Domain Registries and Registrars Into Rightside - Demand Media, Inc. (DMD), a leading media and domain name services company, today announced that its newly formed wholly owned subsidiary, Rightside Group, Ltd. (“Rightside”), has filed a Form 10 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the planned spin-off of Rightside as an independent publicly traded company. “The filing marks an important step reached on Rightside’s path to becoming an independent company that will be one of the world’s ... read more ...
 
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Donuts assigns rights to .futbol and .reviews tip turn domains to Demand Media’s Rightside - Rightside has two more top level domain names in its new TLD portfolio. Demand Media filed documents with the SEC today related to its spinoff of Rightside, and also published an investor presentation. The disclosures show that Donuts has assigned rights for two new top level domain names, .fubol and .reviews, to Rightside’s United TLD. These domains were applied for under Donuts’ subsidiaries Atomic Falls, LLC and Extra Cover, LLC, respectively. The two domains ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media’s Rightside reveals numbers and gamble on new TLDs in SEC filing - Rightside’s growth is highly dependent on the success of new top level domain names. Demand Media is spinning off its domain name business as a new publicly traded company, Rightside. Today the company filed documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that give the public much more detail on the business. Having reviewed the documents for much of this morning, one thing became very clear: a bet on Rightside is a bet on new top level domain names. ... read more ...
Tue 31st December 2013
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2013 Top Stories: Demand Media to spin off domain business - Rightside will make some noise in 2014. Demand Media has had its share of ups and downs since it was founded in 2006. 2013 was mostly a year of downs for its content business, which includes eHow and Livestrong.com, thanks to Google’s search engine changes. But the domain name business is still holding its own, and it’s hoping to capitalize on the introduction of new top level domain names in 2014. In February, Demand Media announced that it was planning to spin ... read more ...
Thu 7th November 2013
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Domain parking clawback dings Demand Media earnings, and initial demeanour during Rightside numbers - Company hit with parking clawback from a previous quarter. Ask any domain parking company about their top frustrations, and clawbacks will be high on the list. Basically, their upstream ad partner will clawback previously paid revenue based on traffic quality. This often happens after the parking customer has paid its partner. These clawbacks can apparently be quite big, as evidenced in today’s Demand Media earnings call. Speaking about a tough third quarter, Demand ... read more ...
Mon 28th October 2013
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Demand Media to call spinoff Rightside? - Me thinks that DemandMedia *may* have a problem. The guy that owns Rightside.com filed a trademark application more than a year before DemandMedia ,unless im missing something (like a brain ??); CTM-ONLINE – Detailed trade mark information [New basic search] [New advanced search] [Modify Search] [Refine search (Disabled)] [List of results] [Access to file] [Trade mark Detail (Disabled)] [Login to MYPAGE] [Back to MYPAGE (Disabled)] [Save search to my page (Disabled)] ... read more ...