Richard Rosenblatt resigns as Chairman & CEO of Demand Media. There's been a change at the top of one of the domain name industry's biggest companies. Demand Media announced today that Richard Rosenblatt has stepped down as Chairman and CEO of the ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Meet Steve Banfield, Demand Media’s new SVP and GM of Registrar Services
· Domain RegistrarsBanfield to lead eNom and Name.com. Earlier this week Demand Media announced that it hired Steve Banfield to serve as SVP and GM of Registrar Services. Demand Media owns domain name reseller eNom and consumer registrar Name.com, both of which Banfield ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
How Demand Media sees its domain name business
· Domain RegistrarsDomain business positioned as end-to-end domain provider, spin-out on track. Demand Media just concluded its first quarter earnings conference call, and much of the talk centered on new TLDs. The company is working to spin out its domain name ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Demand Media touts new TLDs in latest earnings, domains increase to 14 million
· Domain RegistrarsDemand Media puts new TLDs front and center in earnings release. Demand Media just released its first quarter earnings. It reported a slight profit of $0.7M before adjustments. But more interesting to the domain world is the focus the company's ... Continue Reading1 Comment
.Org Project 94 kicks off next month
· Domain SalesShort .org domains go on auction block beginning next month. Next month .org registry Public Interest Registry (PIR) will begin auctioning off domain names as part of Project 94. Project 94 is the marketing name for releasing 94 one and two ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Demand Media considers spinning off domain name business
· Domain RegistrarsDomain business might become its own company. Demand Media, parent company of eNom and Name.com, is considering splitting its business in two. The move would see its domain assets and online media business separated. The domain business would have ... Continue Reading5 Comments
Poll: How much will 1 and 2 letter .org domains sell for?
· Domain SalesWhat will domains sell for at auction? This week Public Interest Registry, the non-profit that runs .org, announced auctions for 85 one and two character .org domain names. The domains will be auctioned through Go Daddy and eNom in what the company ... Continue Reading6 Comments
Demand Media’s 26 TLDs hit the armed forces, democrats, and republicans
· Domain RegistrarsDemand Media applies for 26 domain names -- and some of them are very interesting. Publicly traded Demand Media, parent company of domain registrar eNom, has applied for 26 top level domain names through (what appears to be) a subsidiary called United ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Google makes domain verification easier with eNom and Go Daddy
· Domain RegistrarseNom and Go Daddy customers can verify ownership from web based interface. Google has just introduced a speedier way to verify your domain ownership for use with certain Google tools. You have to verify that you own a particular domain name in order ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Demand Media invests $18 million in new TLDs
· Domain RegistrarsThat's a whole lotta top level domains. [Updated with comment from Demand Media and from investor call] Demand Media, parent company of eNom, announced today that it has invested $18 million into new top level domain names. It's not clear if this is ... Continue Reading4 Comments