According to a report released yesterday by Hitwise, Bing is gaining some market share at the expense of Google. Google's market share for search in January was almost 68% down 2% from December. On the other hand Bing.com and Bing-powered sites collectively rose by 6%, giving Microsoft's search engine a 27.4% market share. (Credit: Experian Hitwise) Bing.com by itself accounted for … [Read more...]

According to a report published by Marin Software Wednesday. The report, "Why the Search Alliance Is Paying Off for Paid Search," suggests the Microsoft and Yahoo search alliance increased the share of paid-search impressions by 4% and share of clicks by 2%, while Google's share declined by the same percentage. Microsoft and Yahoo saw paid-search share of impressions rise from 19% to … [Read more...]

As you know Demand Media went public this week closing around $20 a share after getting to as high as $25 on its opening day. There is a lot of debate concerning what the proper valuation of Demand is from inside and outside the domain industry. SeekingAlpha, a site that focus on investing and the stock market in general, published a story on Thursday when Demand Stock was trading at $22.65 … [Read more...]

VeriSign, Inc a stock we follow in our Domain Stock Index,  reported earnings for the 4th quarter after the market closed today. And while the executives are busy patting themselves on the back for the great job they did to increase Verisign revenue 13% we can help but point out they VeriSign is guaranteed, like few companies on the planet, a 7% annual price increase in any 4 of 6 years they … [Read more...]

We added 4 companies to our Domain Stock Index which tracks some of the public companies that are heavily involved in domain names. As always stock prices are updated every 15 minutes through each trading day. The stock index is located on the bottom right of our main page. Demand Media owns Enom.com the 2nd largest registrar in the world, NameJet.com the auction house, and hundreds of … [Read more...]

Shares of Demand Media closed its first day of trading at $22.65. As you know by now, the company's stock went public at $17 a share,  its first trade was at $23.50 and traded as high as $25. So the question now becomes at what price would will the stock of Demand Media be trading at the same time next year? Today is January 25th so lets call for the closing price as of Friday  Janauary … [Read more...]