After the market closed today Demand Media, Inc, (NYSE: DMD) reported earnings for the quarter ending June 30, 2012. Revenues were up and the company swung to a profit. Shares after hours are trading at $12 a share up around 3%. More importantly they up their guidance for the third quarter and 2012 in general. For the quarter ending June 30th, Revenue Grew 17% and Revenue ex-TAC … [Read more...]

According to a Press release just out Michael Blend was named president and chief operating officer (COO) of Demand Media, Inc. (NYSE: DMD), effective August 16. "Michael’s leadership will be instrumental as we continue to build upon our successful growth in content and media, as well as embark on a new era of internet domain expansion” "As president and COO, Blend will add to his current … [Read more...]

Sedo announced this morning that Ukrainian registrar Ukrnames has joined the SedoMLS Premium network. "Full SedoMLS Premium partners like Ukrnames offer their customers the ability to purchase premium domains directly at their website, and to list their own names for sale in the SedoMLS network." “Joining the SedoMLS Premium network helps us give our customers the greatest choice in domain … [Read more...]

In what be a record day, a two separate UDRP panels have found complainant's guilt of reverse domain name hijacking (RDNH). The  first case involved the domain name Mindo.com The second case involved the three letter domain name SHA.com The more interesting of the two cases is the Mindo.com case. The panel found RDNH even though the complainant had a trademark in the US and other … [Read more...]

ICANN just announced that the domain name registered at two de-accreditated registrars were being transferred to NamesBeyond.com. The two registrars which were de-accreditated are Planet Online Corp's and Name For Name, Inc.'s. "ICANN has authorized the bulk transfer of  Planet Online Corp's gTLD domain names to NamesBeyond.com ("NamesBeyond") due to a compliance action taken by ICANN … [Read more...]

Afternic.com just published its weekly report of domain name sales totalling $994,964 for the week ending July 22nd, 2012. The publicly reportable sales were led by ShenYun.com for $16,475, followed by SelfTanning.com for $12,000. ShenYun.com is now directing to the website for Shen Yun Performing Arts - an entertainment and performing arts company based in New York. They previously used the … [Read more...]

Sedo.com just announced its weekly sales data ending July 23rd, 2012. In all over $1.5MM of domains were sold. The top seller was Metal.com at $140,000. Other domains topping the list of public sales were ChargePoint.com for $80,000 & Sugar.co for $30,000. In all 834 domains were sold. 43% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Below is the entire list of publicly … [Read more...]