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 … [Read more...]
Actress Anna Faris Acquires The Domain Name Unqualified.com
Actress Anna Faris has acquired the domain name Unqualified.com. The domain name matches the name of her Podcast, which is called "Anna Faris is Unqualified" which started in November 2015. According to the website; " the podcast gives "not-so-great relationship advice from completely unqualified Hollywood types". Ms. Faris uses the Twitter handle @unqualified The domain name was … [Read more...]
DomainPros Buys 260 Five Digit Domains For $1M; $3,850 Per
DomainPros.com announced today that it just acquired 260 five number domain names (NNNNN.com) for $1,000,000 That works out to just over $3,800 per domain name. "Most of those 260 domains originally belonged to Marchex’s portfolio of 5 digit domains" which Godaddy bought from Marchex. Back in April we announced that Godaddy paid $26.2 Million dollars for Marchex's portfolio of over … [Read more...]
Marchex Sells Its Domain Portfolio Of 200K+ Domains To Godaddy For $28.1 Million
Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHX), today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement to sell its remaining domain portfolio of more than 200,000 domains to GoDaddy Inc.(NYSE: GDDY). Under the agreement, Marchex received cash consideration of $28.1 million from Godaddy, plus additional earn-out payments the terms of which were undisclosed including the maximum additional earn … [Read more...]
Archeo Publishes 3Q Sales Stats
Archeo, a subsidiary of Marchex, issued its newsletter for the third quarter of 2014 . "This newsletter will highlight our sales stats from Q3, featuring a few sales trends we found interesting. We will also continue to focus on educating small business owners on how premium domains can help benefit their business.! Q3 SALES SUMMARY Total Sold $1.6M Average … [Read more...]
Marchex Reports & Sells $1.6 Million In Domain Names
Marchex, Inc. (MCHX), announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2014. Archeo its domain name division sold $1.6 Million dollars during the quarter. Q3 2014 Financial Highlights1 GAAP revenue was $49.2 million for the third quarter of 2014, compared to $40.6 million for the third quarter of 2013. Non-GAAP revenue, which excludes domain sales recorded in … [Read more...]
Marchex Files Federal Suit Over UDRP On Banco24horas.com and Banco24horas.net
Marchex Sales Inc, filed a Federal Lawsuit in the Eastern District of Virginia today over the domain names, banco24horas.com and banco24horas.net which were awarded in a UDRP to Tecnologia Bancaria S.A. of Brazil. The lawsuit is for Reverse Domain Hijacking and for Declaratory Relief Under the Lanham Act 15 USC 1114(2)(d)(iv)-(v) & For Tortious Interference with a Contract. In addition … [Read more...]