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The Domains
Minds + Machines Swings To A Profit in 2013, From Losing New gTLD Private Auctions
Minds + Machines Group released its earnings for the year ending December 31, 2013 and swung to an operating profit of £776,000 against a loss of £3.07 million loss in 2012. All the profit came from losing private auctions on New gTLD str...
Discussion
Minds + Machines Swings To A Profit in 2013, From Losing New gTLD Private Auctions
Minds + Machines Group released its earnings for the year ending December 31, 2013 and swung to an operating profit of £776,000 against a loss of £3.07 million loss in 2012. All the profit came from losing private auctions on New gTLD str...
Discussion
June 10, 2014, 1:20 pm
Domain Shane
THE BIG AFTERMARKET LIST: Tuesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on June 10th, 2014
Today was a good day in the Cultra family. Probably more for my daughter than me. Apple shares divided in a 7 for 1 split giving us thousands more shares. I’ve told the story before but my family has been using Apple since 1976. &nb...
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THE BIG AFTERMARKET LIST: Tuesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on June 10th, 2014
Today was a good day in the Cultra family. Probably more for my daughter than me. Apple shares divided in a 7 for 1 split giving us thousands more shares. I’ve told the story before but my family has been using Apple since 1976. &nb...
Discussion
June 10, 2014, 11:33 am
The Domains
Owner of x.uk expects the short web address to fetch a record £10m
The Telegraph is out with a couple stories about the .UK extension. Stephen Fry is the first Brit to make the switch From the article: Stephen Fry has become the first person to make the switch to a .uk web domain as the service becomes availab...
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Owner of x.uk expects the short web address to fetch a record £10m
The Telegraph is out with a couple stories about the .UK extension. Stephen Fry is the first Brit to make the switch From the article: Stephen Fry has become the first person to make the switch to a .uk web domain as the service becomes availab...
Discussion
June 10, 2014, 11:11 am
Domain Shane
Flippa – A Look Forward: Matt.net, VUM.com, Weights.com, BYE.com, other names from Eric Borgos and Anything.com
We’ve decided to split the weekly Flippa post into two: a recap of sales, and a look forward at interesting auctions coming down the pike in the next week or two. The look forward will include a range of name types and values, some of which hav...
Discussion
Flippa – A Look Forward: Matt.net, VUM.com, Weights.com, BYE.com, other names from Eric Borgos and Anything.com
We’ve decided to split the weekly Flippa post into two: a recap of sales, and a look forward at interesting auctions coming down the pike in the next week or two. The look forward will include a range of name types and values, some of which hav...
Discussion
June 10, 2014, 12:28 am
Domain Name Wire
8 Things We Learned from GoDaddy’s IPO filing
GoDaddy filed its S-1 today to go public. I’ve skimmed the 250 pages to compile these seven data points that weren’t previously known. 1. GoDaddy has a lot of customers: 11.548M, to be exact. 2. The company had 2013 revenue of $1.13B. It ...
Discussion
8 Things We Learned from GoDaddy’s IPO filing
GoDaddy filed its S-1 today to go public. I’ve skimmed the 250 pages to compile these seven data points that weren’t previously known. 1. GoDaddy has a lot of customers: 11.548M, to be exact. 2. The company had 2013 revenue of $1.13B. It ...
Discussion
June 9, 2014, 10:50 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy files to go public (again)
GoDaddy says “It’s Go Time” for IPO. GoDaddy has filed its S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This will be the company’s second attempt at an initial public offering. It originally filed to go public in 2006, but...
Discussion
GoDaddy files to go public (again)
GoDaddy says “It’s Go Time” for IPO. GoDaddy has filed its S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This will be the company’s second attempt at an initial public offering. It originally filed to go public in 2006, but...
Discussion
June 9, 2014, 10:01 pm
Domain Name Wire
Demand Media spinoff Rightside to list on NASDAQ as “NAME”, scores 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...
Discussion
Demand Media spinoff Rightside to list on NASDAQ as “NAME”, scores 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...
Discussion
June 9, 2014, 9:53 pm
The Domains
New York Times Reports On Godaddy IPO: Its Go Time
The New York Times is reporting that Godaddy IPO is a Go According to the New York Times, Godaddy had 57 million domains under management as of Dec. 31. GoDaddy reported $1.1 billion in revenue for 2013, a 24% increase from the previous year. Accordi...
Discussion
New York Times Reports On Godaddy IPO: Its Go Time
The New York Times is reporting that Godaddy IPO is a Go According to the New York Times, Godaddy had 57 million domains under management as of Dec. 31. GoDaddy reported $1.1 billion in revenue for 2013, a 24% increase from the previous year. Accordi...
Discussion
June 9, 2014, 9:52 pm
The Domains
Ad Impersonation Is The New Click Fraud
Lori Weiman wrote an interesting piece on Search Engine Land a few hours ago, the article focused on a different type of click fraud. PPC Ad impersonation occurs when an impostor advertiser takes a well known website address, and uses it as the...
Discussion
Ad Impersonation Is The New Click Fraud
Lori Weiman wrote an interesting piece on Search Engine Land a few hours ago, the article focused on a different type of click fraud. PPC Ad impersonation occurs when an impostor advertiser takes a well known website address, and uses it as the...
Discussion
June 9, 2014, 9:21 pm
Domain Name Wire
Which new TLD is on top? Here’s one answer.
Search data shows that .directory is winning in terms of total indexed pages. No, this article isn’t about whether .xyz or .club should be considered the most registered new domain name so far. Instead, it’s a different look at how to mea...
Discussion
Which new TLD is on top? Here’s one answer.
Search data shows that .directory is winning in terms of total indexed pages. No, this article isn’t about whether .xyz or .club should be considered the most registered new domain name so far. Instead, it’s a different look at how to mea...
Discussion
June 9, 2014, 6:19 pm
