The Fool.com just published an article listing who they think might be the buyer for Godaddy.com In its article entitled "Whose Hot For Godaddy", the Fool.com lays out what they consider to be the most likely buyer of Godaddy.com. The Fool.com came up with these companies: Google, Amazon.com, Cisco Systems, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Microsoft. To read about their reasoning for … [Read more...]
What A Goddady Sale Could Mean For The Domain Industry
Love him or hate him you have to admit that Bob Parsons has bought attention to domain names to mainstream America like no one before him. That's why the story by the Wall Street Journal yesterday saying that Godaddy was going to place itself in an auction to sell the company, is one all domainers should follow. Godaddy is not just a company in the domain space it is a company responsible … [Read more...]
Godaddy.com Gets X.Co & Its Already Up & Running
The .Co registry just announced today that Godaddy.com has been awarded X.Co. This is the 4th single letter .co to be released E.co sold for $81,000 in a charity auction sponsored by the .Co registry. Twitter was granted T.Co to use as a shortener. OverStock paid $350,000 for O.Co X.Co is already up and running at Godaddy.com Here is the the official announcement: ""URL … [Read more...]
Earnings Are Out: Tucows Swings To A Loss For 2nd Quarter
Tucows.com reported earnings after the market closed today Net revenue for the second quarter of 2010 increased 4.1% to $20.8 million from $20.0 million for the second quarter of 2009. However Tucows swung to a loss for the Quarter compared to a year ago: "Net loss for the second quarter of 2010 was $0.8 million, or $0.01 per share, compared with net income of $4.4 million, or $0.06 per … [Read more...]
Demand Media: We Were Founded In 2006 & We Have Had A Net Loss In Every Year: Total Loss To Date $52 Million
From the S-1 application Demand Media filed today is this little gem, that none of us would be too proud of saying if it was our own business: ""We were founded in 2006 and have a limited operating history." "We have had a net loss in every year since inception." "As of June 30, 2010, we had an accumulated deficit of approximately $52 million and we may incur net operating losses in the … [Read more...]
.Co Is Now #2 On GoDaddy.com Drop Down Registration Menu Right Behind .Com: Who Is The Big Loser?
If you ever registered a domain name over at Godaddy.com you know that they have a drop down menu for extensions. So if you wanted to register a domain, you type the domain without the extension into the first box and then select the extension that you want in the second drop down box. Since Godaddy.com at last report was the registrar of choice for 50% of all new domain registrations, where … [Read more...]
Network Solutions Raising Prices By $.50 “Blaming Registry Increases”
I got the following notice from NetworkSolutions.com over the weekend stating that they are raising the price of their registrations on August 6th by $.50 for several extensions. Of course all registrars are entitled to charge whatever they want to an end user for a domain, but I'm bothered by the statement in the notice blaming the price increase, on increases by the respective … [Read more...]