Shares of Web.com (WEB) rose over 13% after hours as Reuters.com reported the company “is in talks with private equity firms after receiving takeover approaches.” The story went on to say “The…
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Quick Poll How Much Will .Web Sell For In The ICANN Auction On July 27th ?
The new gTLD .Web is scheduled to go to an ICANN auction, on July 27th. There are 8 companies in the auction and 3 of them are public. The public companies are…
Web.com Buying Local Ad Co. Yodle for $342M Which Is About 40% of Its Market Cap
Web.com (NASDAQ:WEB) announced today it’s acquiring Yodle, a provider of local online ad/marketing services for 50K+ small businesses, for $300M in cash up-front + payments of $20M and $22M at the first…
Motley Fool Ponders if Go Daddy is Cheap – One Analyst Sees Go Daddy A Bigger Threat to Web.com
Alex Dumortier on Motley Fool took a look at the Go Daddy IPO and honed in on the history of operating losses and whether or not the stock is cheap based on…
Report: Web.com Largest Shareholder Could Be Activist & Shake Up The Board
According to TheFly.com FBR Capital says Okumus Fund Management, Web.com’s (WWWW) largest shareholder, could potentially take a more activist stance going forward. “FBR added that it would not be surprised if announcements…
Will Web.com Hurt Godaddy’s IPO?
Web.com had a few comments on its earnings call today that should be of concern to all domain name registrars: CEO David L. Brown noted “the increased availability of [domain] names has…
Google Entering the Domain Business May Have Less of an Impact on Web.com
David Hernandez wrote a piece on Seeking Alpha that Google entering the domain business may not be as bad as thought for competitor Web.com. Web.com owns Register.com and Network Solutions. The stock…