New top level domain name company extends contract with Rightside. Donuts has extended its contract with Rightside for the latter to provide backend registry services for Donuts' top level domain names, the two companies announced today. Rightside ... Continue Reading1 Comment
.Com Winners & Losers: Big changes ahead
· Domain RegistrarsThe Winners & Losers chart will be undergoing some shakeup. Every month I publish my .Com Winners & Losers report based on the most recent data Verisign has submitted to ICANN. This data is made public three months after the end of the relevant month. ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Five interesting things about the eNom sale
· Domain RegistrarsRightside's (NASDAQ:NAME) CEO Taryn Naidu and CFO Tracy Knox gave a presentation yesterday about the company's sale of eNom to Tucows. Here are some interesting takeaways: New TLDs are still the smallest part of Rightside's business. Name.com is the ... Continue Reading6 Comments
Tucows expects $20 million EBITDA/year from “opportunistic” eNom acquisition
· Domain RegistrarsTucows expects fast contribution from eNom, which has booked losses at Rightside. Domain name and communications company Tucows (NASDAQ:TCX) didn't plan to acquire two domain name businesses over the past year, but the opportunities were too good to ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Tucows acquires eNom from Rightside
· Domain RegistrarsTucows consolidates domain reseller platforms in $83.5 million transaction. Earlier this week I warned you to be on the lookout for big news over the next few days. Here it is. Tucows (NASDAQ:TCX) has acquired Rightside's (NASDAQ:NAME) eNom business ... Continue Reading19 Comments
Rightside opens Platinum domains to brokers and registrars
· Domain SalesBrokers and registrars can now more easily access Rightside's Platinum domain inventory. Rightside is changing up its Platinum Domains program for new top level domain names and inviting domain brokers and sellers to get a cut of the ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Rightside’s revenue drops again in Q3
· UncategorizedTop line continues to shrink at Rightside. Domain name company Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME) reported earnings after the bell today. Revenue keeps heading in the wrong direction. For the third quarter in a row, revenue was down quarter-over-quarter. More ... Continue Reading6 Comments
Google open sources domain registry, Donuts collaborates as pressure on registry providers mounts
· ServicesDonuts makes key contributions to open source registry platform, setting up a possible migration in the future. The shakeup in the backend domain name registry services business continues. Today, Google launched an open source cloud-based registry ... Continue Reading5 Comments
Unsurprisingly, re-renewal rates on new TLDs higher than original renewals
· ServicesRightside's first batch of new TLDs follow the expected pattern for re-renewals. Rightside, which markets 40 top level domain names, this week published data on domain name renewals. The data aren't particularly surprising. The company has seven top ... Continue Reading7 Comments
.Com Winners & Losers: A slow month
· Domain RegistrarsNew .com registrations dropped a bit in June compared to a year ago. ICANN has published the latest .com transactions report from registry Verisign, showing official results from June. Total new .com registrations this June compared to June 2015 ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment