Neustar put out a study and an infographic on the high conversion rates experienced in local search by those using mobile phones. Jessica Lee covered this on Search Engine Watch From the article: How Local Searches Convert Four out of five searches via mobile devices lead to a purchase, often within a few hours, the survey said. Compared with other devices, the mobile phone showed the … [Read more...]
The Denver Post Apparently Has Never Heard of Neustar
The Denver Post is not too familiar with Neustar, they referred to the company as "virtually unknown". The article is pertaining to Neustar and their bid to retain a very lucrative contract in the telecom space. This is the same "virtually unknown" company that just spent $109 to million to buy .CO Internet S.A.S. The Denver Post doesn't seem to be aware that Neustar (NSR) is a publicly … [Read more...]
.CO Internet S.A.S Acquired for $109 Million
Neustar traded on the NYSE under the symbol NSR has a market cap of roughly $2.16 billion, today after the close they announced the acquistion of the company behind the .CO extension. Neustar is acquiring .CO Internet S.A.S for $109 million. Neustar recorded $4 million in revenue for its role as the back-end provider for .CO Internet, which will be eliminated upon consolidation. Neustar is … [Read more...]
US Gives NeuStar New Contract To Run .US Domain Extention For Up To 5 Years
The Department of Commerce has re-awarded the contract to operate the .US domain extensions for three years with two additional one-year extension options to Neustar Inc. (NYSE:NSR). The .US Top Level Domain (TLD), is the official country code domain of the United States (ccTLD) "Neustar has successfully administered this critical domain since 2001, when the Department of Commerce first … [Read more...]
Neustar Reports: Revenue Up 8%; & Acquired Aggregate Knowledge, Inc For $119 Million
Neustar, Inc. (NSR), the back end provider of the ccTLD's, .Us .Co and the TLD of .Biz and for hundreds of new gTLD applicants today announced results for the quarter ended September 30, 2013, and in a separate release stated that it has acquired Aggregate Knowledge, Inc., a leading campaign and predictive analytics platform, for approximately $119 million in cash consideration. Results for … [Read more...]
75 Stories Published By Mainstream Media On .NYC in Less Than 24 Hours
Since the city of New York let everyone know yesterday, that their application for .NYC passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE), which actually occurred on May 24th, 75 media outlets from the BBC to PC Magazine, to Time Magazine, Cnet, to FastCompany.com to Mashable.com, to the WashingtonPost.com, have covered the story with more being added hourly. We have been telling you for quite a while … [Read more...]
Neustar Reports: Revenue Up 38%
Neustar (NSR) announced results for the quarter ended September 30, 2012 and updated its guidance for full-year 2012. after the market closed today. Neustar provides the back end of many TLD including .biz, .US and .Co and is the back end provider for many of the new gTLD applications. GAAP Results for Third Quarter 2012 Compared to Third Quarter 2011 Revenue increased 38% to … [Read more...]