Tucows Reveals Depth of Domain Portfolio
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Company discloses valuable domains and number of domains held.
Domain registration “wholesaler” and service provider Tucows (AMEX: TCX) has revealed data about its domain holdings. With over 150,000 domains, the portfolio makes up a significant part of the company’s value, which likely hasn’t been fully captured in its stock price. Its shares on the AMEX are sitting at $.63, just off a 52 week low of $.53 and well below a high of $1.41. (I’m assuming that Tucows is revealing these details because it doesn’t feel its stock reflects the value.)
Its portfolio includes:
-1,000 domains the company considers “gems” (see a sample below)
-39,000 surnames (last names), most of which were part of the NetIdentity acquisition
-22,000 “brandable” names
-88,000 direct navigation names
Tucows CEO Elliot Noss says the company has sold thousands of domains and will continue to sell individually and in bundles. Tucows has internal tools to evaluate its domains for faster resale, and sells them through a variety of venues including live and silent auctions.
Among the company’s “gems” are:
Actresses.com
Liberals.com
Lutheran.com
Beagles.com
PawnShops.com
Penicillin.com
Cardiologists.com
Divorced.com
DogBreeders.com
Sleuth.com
Tool.com
Lemons.com
The company will reveal more about its portfolio in the future. Although the above domains are good, I question the label of ‘gems’ for a number of the domains identified, which makes me question the domain names that haven’t been revealed. Among the domains the company views as gems are Brontosaur.com, Puppysitters.com, and TheCompany.com. These are good names, but not ‘gems’ in my book.
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I think they are missing a couple of “headline” domain names like some other publicly traded domain related companies have. This would make the whole portfolio more mention-worthy and buzz worthy.
Communicate.com has boxing.com, call.com, cricket.com that they always refer to.
Marchex has debts.com and 90210.com that they always refer to.
Intersearch Global has irs.com and banks.com (and just renamed the whole company after that domain name).
[...] DomainNameWire reports Domain registration “wholesaler” and service provider Tucows (AMEX: TCX) has revealed data about its domain holdings. With over 150,000 domains, the portfolio makes up a significant part of the company’s value, which likely hasn’t been fully captured in its stock price. Its shares on the AMEX are sitting at $.63, just off a 52 week low of $.53 and well below a high of $1.41. (I’m assuming that Tucows is revealing these details because it doesn’t feel its stock reflects the value.) [...]
@ Michael - I have to say I’m not too impressed with ‘headline grabbing’ domain names from Marchex. You rarely hear someone refer to ‘debts’…most individuals think of ‘debt’ singular.
But I agree with your sentiment.
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One man’s gems (read: premium names) are another man’s (puppysitters) dogs.
When was the last time anyone admitted that the names they were selling were anything but “premium?”
What are the odds that we’ll ever see such?
Oh, about zero.
Andrew–any link to what I presume is a press release on this?
tool.com looks like the only good one
Sorry about forgetting the link.
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