A look at how domain stocks did in 2016, if you owned Tucows you were very happy

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2016 was a great year for shareholders of Tucows and Neustar, for shareholders of Verisign, Marchex and Sedo parent United Internet ? Not so much.

Tucows was the star for 2016 up 67% on the year. Neustar got acquired and the stock finished up close to 40%.

Verisign saw their fortunes take a down turn in 2016, all the speculative hand regs based on Chinese whims did not materialize in 2016 like they did in 2015. The stock was down over 12%. Of course the company won the .web extension for $135 million.

Owning Rightside turned out to be like watching paint dry if you held for the whole year and made no transactions. The stock was down three cents on the year.

The Dow Jones was up 13.42% while Bitcoin was up 124%.

Minds + Machines Group… MMX 10.50 +25.37%
Marchex, Inc. MCHX 2.65 -31.88%
Web.com Group Inc WEB 21.15 +5.7%
Rightside Group Ltd NAME 8.27 -0.36%
Centralnic Group PLC CNIC 46.50 -3.83%
Alphabet Inc GOOG 771.82 +1.71%
Tucows Inc. (USA) TCX 35.25 +67.06%
Verisign, Inc. VRSN 76.07 -12.92%
Neustar Inc NSR 33.40 +39.34 %
United Internet AG UTDI 37.10* -27.14%
Endurance Intl. Group… EIGI 9.30 -14.91%
Godaddy Inc GDDY 34.95 +9.01%

About Raymond Hackney

Raymond is a writer, domain trader and consultant based in Pennsylvania. Raymond is the founder of 3Character.com and TLDInvestors.com.

Comments

  3. david dejongh weill says

    Minds and Machines (MMX) was up on the year not down as you report above, both in Sterling and in US dollar terms just for your reference. It was up 28.3% in Sterling and 6.5% in US $’s.

    • Raymond Hackney says

      Hello David,

      Thank you edited what happened was I did not click the 2016 results like I thought I did, and it was the default previous 3 days that was down 4.11%.

      Thank you