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George Kirikos: GoDaddy "*Definitely* Paid $35.5mm for Mike Berkens Domain Portfolio"

GoDaddy published its quarterly earnings report and had its conference call tonight. In the report, the company had a line item for acquisitions, and George Kirikos has used that to deduce what he believes the company paid for Mike Berkens’ domain portfolio in December of 2015. According to a series of tweets from George Kirikos this evening, GoDaddy “*definitely* paid $35.5MM for Mike Berkens domain portfolio.” Andrew Allemann also wrote about this, although he posed it as a question rather than a definitive statement. GoDaddy $GDDY *definitely* paid $35.5MM for Mike Berkens domain portfolio. Investor relations confirms it was the only…

Did GoDaddy Pay $35.5 Million for Michael Berkens' Portfolio?

Maybe… GoDaddy released earnings today. Although the company doesn’t directly disclose how much the company paid for Michael Berkens’ Worldwide Media domain name portfolio, there’s a clue. As of the end of September, the company’s cash flow reconciliation included $30.7 million used for acquisitions. At the end of the year, the number spiked to $66.2…
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GoDaddy Almost Profitable in Q4

GoDaddy almost turns a GAAP profit in Q4. Domain name and web hosting company GoDaddy (NYSE:GDDY) reported earnings after the bell today. GoDaddy had a net loss of $(0.5) million and an adjusted EBITDA of $73.5 million. Total bookings hit $464.0 million and unlevered free cash flow came in at $52.3 million. (The latter two…
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Market Recap 2/17/16 GoDaddy Up Over 7% Reports Earnings

Market Recap 2/17/16 Go Daddy (GDDY) was up over $2 today or 7%, they received a buy recommendation from Deutsche Bank and reported earnings after the close. Fourth Quarter Financial Highlights Revenue of $425.4 million, up 14.4% year over year, or approximately 16.7% on a constant currency basis. Total Bookings of $464.0 million, up 13.3%…
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National Hockey League Goes After Nhl.net

The National Hockey League, also commonly known as the NHL, has filed a UDRP to try and get control of the NHL.net domain name. The case was filed at the World Intellectual Property Organization, and it is WIPO Case D2016-0315. One thing I find very interesting about the case is that the NHL seems to have waited a very long time to file this UDRP. The domain name has a creation date of March of 1999. The first historical Whois record in DomainTools dates back to 2003. I did a Whois history search, and although the registrant name is different ��’ Read More

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.cloud Passes 20,000 Names On Day One

The newly launched gTLD .cloud passed 20,000 domains under management one day after entering general availability. About 25 hours after the 1500 UTC launch yesterday, 20,347 domains had been registered, according to head of registry operations Francesco Cetraro. He said 17,991 of those names were registered in GA. The gTLD is priced around the $20…

.top Adds a Quarter Million Names in a Day

The new gTLD .top set a new record for one-day growth, adding almost a quarter million domains on Monday. The February 16 .top zone file shows 1,343,665 domains, up 238,616 on the day, according to DI stats. That’s the majority of the 287,950-name growth the whole new gTLD universe experienced that day. It’s the second…

.me Passes 1 Million Domain Name Registrations +28% in 2015

The .Me registry announced today that for the 1st time, the number of .Me domain registrations passed 1 Million domains. .Me is the country code or ccTLD for Montenegro. According to the Ministry for the Information Society and Telecommunications, the total number of registered domains amounted to 1,014,867, representing a whopping 28.36% annual growth in…
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Rightside Reports Record Revenue But New TLD Revenue Growth is Slow

Revenue grows in Q4 but new TLD revenue remains just a small fraction of the total. Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME) today reported record quarterly revenue for Q4 of $55.7 million, and full year revenue of $212.5 million. All three segments of the company — registrar, registry and aftermarket — showed quarter-over-quarter growth. But registry services (aka new…
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$33 Million .org Contract Up for Grabs

Public Interest Registry, operator of .org, has put its back-end registry services contract up for grabs. The deal could be worth around $33 million a year, judging by its current relationship with incumbent back-end Afilias. PIR said in a statement today: The organisation desires to contract with a qualified back-end registry services provider that shares…