Did Endurance Acquire Endurance.com from DigiMedia?

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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

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

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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,

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Eric Lyon Gives Update on NamePros High Priced Domain Sales Forum

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NameprosIn March of 2011, there was a major change in the domain name sales forums at NamePros. The most noticeable change to me at the time was that NamePros removed the high price domain sales section. With domain sales being important to most people active in the domain space, this was a pretty significant change.

Yesterday evening, NamePros administrator Eric Lyon posted an update on my blog about some of the recent changes on NamePros. I thought his extensive post was important enough to call out in its own article, so what Eric posted in the comment section is below. If you have questions for Eric or anyone else on the NamePros staff, you are welcome to ask in the comment section.

Thanks to Eric for sharing this information.

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Jim Grace Joins Team Internet

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Team InternetA little over a month ago, I reported that Jim Grace was no longer with Domain Holdings. I mentioned that I thought he would find a new position in the domain business quickly, and he did.

This morning, I received an email from Team Internet CEO Nico Zeifang, and he announced that Jim Grace had joined the company in the role of Director of Business Development. Jim will be working with Team Internet on its domain parking product, ParkingCrew.com, and he will also be working on its advertising platform, DNTX.com.

According to Nico,

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Domainers Choice Awards Coming Back

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This evening, Donna Mahony announced that she is bringing the Domainers Choice Awards back to life. Originally handed out at DomainFest in 2008, the Domainers Choice Awards have been on a hiatus for the past several years.

The 2014 edition will be sponsored by  Domain Boardroom, a  private domain forum founded by Donna. The voting will be conducted by a third party service provider to avoid any potential claims of favoritism or conflicts of interest.

The Domainers Choice Awards website gives more information about the awards:

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Andrew Hazen’s Bobblehead Company: “Sales Near $10M”

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I’ve written about Andrew Hazen’s successful business ventures a few times before. I’ve met Andrew a few times at domain industry events, and I’ve been following him on Twitter. He is an attorney and a successful Internet entrepreneur.

This morning, Newday, a Long Island publication, reported on another one of Andrew’s startup companies, AllBobbleheads.com. According to the article, the “Hicksville firm’s bobblehead sales near $10M.” This is pretty substantial revenue and growth, especially considering how the company started.

There are at least two domain investors who have grown strong businesses in the bobblehead business. Warren Royal founded Bobbleheads.com after acquiring the domain name via auction, and he has also done quite well with his company. I don’t have any idea what his sales numbers are, but every time I speak with him, it seems like his business is growing.

I guess a good lesson to learn is that while an exact match domain name can be extraordinarily beneficial to an entrepreneur with a good business plan, an experienced entrepreneur with a good business plan can use a non-EMD and find considerable success, too.

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