Domain Name Sales is Hiring Inside Domain Broker

Jeff Gabriel, Vice President of Sales at Domain Name Sales, just posted an announcement on Facebook to let people know that his company is hiring in house domain brokers. There is one major caveat to this though – employees of Domain Name Sales must work out of the company’s Grand Cayman headquarters.

Here’s how the company describes its ideal candidate for the Inside Technical Sales position:

Place Your Backorders Everywhere

On occasion, an exceptional domain name will expire and enter pending delete status. Most often (from my perspective), one of the leading auction websites, like NameJet or Snapnames, will catch the domain name, and it will be entered into an auction with many bidders.

Sometimes, neither one of these large auction houses will capture the domain name, and it will be caught by another auction house, by a private company, or by a drop catching service that awards the domain name to the first and only backorder. This happens when the

Hilco Streambank Hiring Director of Digital Assets Sales and Marketing

I want to pass along a domain industry job posting I saw on my LinkedIn stream yesterday. Hilco Streambank, currently preparing for the auction of domain assets including DL.com, Row.com, and Tweeter.com, is looking to hire a Director of Digital Assets Sales and Marketing. It appears that the company is interested in growing its presence in the domain divestment space, and this new hire should be able to help in that respect.

Here’s what the job entails:

Marchex Won’t Spin Off Archeo – Will “Consider Various Strategic Options”

MarchexIn news that was reported just after the closing bell on the NASDAQ market today, Marchex has announced that it will not be spinning off Archeo into a separate company as the company had considered. Here’s what Marchex said in its press release this afternoon:

“Marchex came to this conclusion as part of a recent strategic review. The review began this summer after Marchex sold certain pay-per-click assets, which were operating under Archeo, in July. Marchex sold the assets to help sharpen Archeo’s focus and market opportunity around domains, but as a result, Archeo’s overall financial profile became smaller.

The review determined that the incremental costs and complexities associated with taking Archeo public at this time would be prohibitive, and that Archeo’s value to shareholders is best recognized as a segmented division of Marchex.”

It’s a bit disappointing to me that

Did Endurance Acquire Endurance.com from DigiMedia?

Endurance International GroupEndurance International Group was in the news yesterday when Domain Incite reported that the company’s S-1 filing detailed a potential acquisition of Directi  in the $100 – 110 million range. There may be some other Endurance company news that I haven’t seen published.

I recently noticed a Whois change for the exact match Endurance.com domain name, and Endurance International Group is the new registrant. The company is now using Endurance.com for its website, as they had been previously using EnduranceInternational.com. At the present time, the company has the same website operating on both domain names. You can visit various internal pages on Endurance.com and EnduranceInternational.com and the url is interchangable.

Prior to the acquisition, this

Divyank & Bhavin Turakhia Turn $600 Loan Into $100 – $110 Million Deal

Back in 2010, Robin Wauters, a journalist (now formerly) at TechCrunch, wrote an article about the founders of Directi, Divyank & Bhavin Turakhia. The article discussed that the company was “bootstrapped on a $600 budget – loaned to Divyank and his brother from their parents – back in 1998.”

This morning, Domain Incite and TheDomains are reporting that there is a deal in place for Endurance International to acquire at least a part of Directi for “between $100 million and $110 million in cash or, at the election of the seller, a combination of cash and shares of our common stock,” according to Endurance’s S-1 filing.

In his post this morning,