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:
In 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
Endurance 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
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,
In 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.
A 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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