There were lots of twists and turns over the past year as Rightside sold itself. Domain name company Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME) announced last month that it would be acquired by Donuts for $213 million. This ended a long and winding road for the ... Continue Reading15 Comments
Tucows shifts expired domain name inventory to NameJet
· Expired DomainsMove comes after Tucows acquired an interest in NameJet earlier this year. Tucows, the world's second largest domain name registrar, has stopped sending its expired domain name inventory to GoDaddy and will instead send it to NameJet. Tucows just ... Continue Reading3 Comments
January data show why Rightside sold eNom: Namecheap
· Domain RegistrarsNamecheap made a wholesale switch to its own accreditation in January. ICANN has published data from Verisign about .com activity in January, and it reveals a good reason why Rightside sold eNom to Tucows. Namecheap. Namecheap has always been a ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Two Tucows execs are leaving
· Domain RegistrarsCFO and CIO announced their resignations this month. Two Tucows executives have recently notified the company that they are leaving. Last week, Chief Financial Officer Michael Cooperman announced that he was retiring after 18 years with the company. ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Yeah, so J. Carlo Cannell still isn’t very happy with Rightside
· Domain RegistrarsCannell is ready to step up his fight against Rightside. So Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) sold eNom to Tucows. What does investor J. Carlo Cannell think? As you might expect, he's kind of pissed. But his rationale is a bit odd. You might recall that ... Continue Reading13 Comments
.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
Web.com paid $1.3 million for about 100 eNom registrars
· Expired DomainsDeal was part of partnership to chase expired domain names. In April, NameJet and SnapNames announced a partnership to combine forces to go after pending delete domain names. NameJet is a 50/50 partnership between Rightside and Web.com, while ... Continue Reading6 Comments