At the Godaddy new gTLD Registry Days event today it announced it would be withdrawing its applications for .home and .casa. We want to concentrate and be just a registrar for all new gTLD's so we are withdrawing our applications for the new gTLD's for .Home & .Casa. Another big move by Godaddy.com but one which makes a lot of sense for the company which doesn't want to potentially go … [Read more...]
Breaking: GoDaddy To Drop .Com From Logo
At the Godaddy Registry Days conference, Godaddy.com announced that they will be dropping the .com off their logo over a period to time just to read "Godaddy". "10 years from now we will look back at a world where every domain name ended in a .com like our kids look at record players" said Blake Irving the CEO … [Read more...]
Melbourne IT Promises A “Huge Dividend” From New gTLD Defensive Registrations
According to ComputerWorld.com.au, on a conference call with media after reporting its financial results for 2012 resulting in revenue and profit declines, Melbourne IT CEO Theo Hnarakis said ICANN's release of new gTLDs would generate a “huge dividend” for the company in 2013. Mr. Hnarakins is quoting as saying: “We have 3800 corporate customers, many of which are very defensively oriented in … [Read more...]
Demand Media Considering A Separate Co. For Registrar, Registry & Aftermarket
Demand Media(DMD) today announced that its board of directors has authorized a plan to explore separating its business into two independent, publicly-traded companies: A pure-play media company with a powerful outsourced content creation platform that organically grows its audience, leading web properties that reach over 100 million monthly unique visitors, and an integrated monetization … [Read more...]
Tucows Reports: Revenue Up 13%: Domain Sales & Parking Revenue up 12%
After the stock market closed last night Tucows (TCX) reported its earnings for the 4th quarter ending Devember 31, 2012 Most of the good numbers were in the earnings call: ""Total revenue for the quarter grew 13%, from the same quarter in 2011 to $29.8 million, our eleventh consecutive quarter of growth and revenue for the year grew 18% net percent to just shy of $115 million both records … [Read more...]
Web.com Owner Of Registrars Network Solutions & Register.com Reports: Stock up 12%+
Web.com (WWWW) reported its earnings for announced results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2012. on Friday and had investors buying shares of the company rose over 12% to $18.19 Fourth Quarter and Recent Business Highlights: Web.com's total net subscribers were 3,009,000 at the end of the fourth quarter of 2012, an increase of 18,000 from the end of the third … [Read more...]
According to Tivo, Godaddy’s Ad Was A Big Winner
According to TechCrunch.com, citing data from Tivo, Godaddy.com Ad was one of the top 10 most "engaging" ads. The data based on "second-by-second audience measurement data from over 30,000 anonymous households using TiVo, TiVo’s Research and Analytics arm narrowed down the top ten most engaging ads of the big game". "This is measured by how many users were watching at “play” speed, as well … [Read more...]