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Demand Media Paid $18 Million For Name.com Registrar

March 24, 2013 by Michael Berkens

According to a 10-K report filed with the SEC by Demand Media (DMD) (page F-31) the company paid $18 Million dollars for the domain name registrar Name.com

“”On December 31, 2012, the Company completed the acquisition of the net assets of Name.com, a retail registrar company based in Denver, Colorado.

“The purchase consideration of $18,000,000 comprised an initial cash payment of
$16,200,000 and the remaining $1,800,000 is subject to a hold back to satisfy post-closing indemnification obligations”

“any remaining portion of such hold back amount that is not subject to then pending claims will be paid to the selling shareholders prior to or on the 18-month anniversary of the closing of the transaction.

At the time of acquisition Name.com was reported to have around 1.5 million domain names under management which works out to an acquisition price for Demand Media of around $12 per domain name.

Hybriddomainer.com found the filing last night.

 

Filed Under: Domain Industry, Domain Registrars, Publicly Traded Domain Co

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. BrianWick says

    March 24, 2013 at 11:35 am

    Not just Al Gore selling Current TV at the end of the year ?
    Good sell number 🙂

  2. Louise says

    March 24, 2013 at 12:22 pm

    You go, hybriddomainer! Nice find!

  3. Grim says

    March 24, 2013 at 1:21 pm

    How would people rate Name.com as a registrar? I’m looking about for a new one.

  4. Bobby says

    March 24, 2013 at 1:48 pm

    @Grim, for me they are the best out there by a mile, Customer panel,response,backordering and they way they engage with people is everything i want in a company.

  5. Ron Sheridan says

    March 24, 2013 at 2:32 pm

    @Grim , I echo Bobby’s comments. First rate customer service. And they do not spam their customers with offers etc.

  6. BrianWick says

    March 24, 2013 at 2:48 pm

    I hope Demand keep the registrar in Denver – where we are located 🙂

  7. DomainInvestor says

    March 24, 2013 at 3:46 pm

    Seems like a very reasonable buyout price considering $12 per acquisition. Just imagine them having access to an additional customer base to sell their generic strings. They also now have access to a great drop catching service that catches some great names.

  8. Grim says

    March 24, 2013 at 4:47 pm

    @Bobby & Ron

    Okay thanks, I’ll give it a look.

  9. Jeff Schneider says

    March 25, 2013 at 6:31 pm

    Hello MHB,

    You all may notice they bought a registrar one of the few winners in Closed monopoly TLD Hoax.

    Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group0 (Metal Tiger)


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