Rightside

Rightside Hackathon to Create Tools to Promote New TLDs

Rightside manages 33 (and is in the running to manage several additional) new gTLD extensions, and the company operates popular domain registrars, Enom and Name.com. Clearly, it is in the company’s best (financial) interest to sell domain names in the new extensions, particularly the extensions the company manages and will manage.

On October 2nd and 3rd, Rightside will be holding an internal hackathon to come up with ideas that will help the company promote the new gTLDs and encourage usage of them by the general public. I saw a tweet mentioning the Rightside hackathon, and I asked a company representative for additional details about the hackathon.

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Domain Industry Jobs via LinkedIn

I saw a Google Alert for a domain industry job opportunity, and I want to share some additional advertised job openings that I found today via LinkedIn. For some of these openings, the job has nothing really to do with domain names, and for other jobs, I am sure domain industry experience would be appreciated, if not required.

If I missed any openings that should be shared, please drop me a note or share a link in the comment section. There are plenty of opportunities in the domain space, even for people who don’t want to invest in domain names full time. Here are a few of those opportunities:

Rightside to Present at Deutsche Bank Technology Conference

According to a press release I saw on Market Watch today, Rightside will be a presenter at the 2014 Deutsche Bank Technology Conference. Rightside CEO Taryn Naidu and CFO Tracy Knox will be presenting on behalf of the company. The event takes place at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas on Thursday, September 11, at 7:30am Pacific time (10:30am Eastern time).

According to the Deutsche Bank website (located conveniently on DB.com), the Deutsche Bank Technology Conference is an event where “senior executives from leading companies in the technology industry will present in a Fireside Chat format, and will be available for one-on-one meetings throughout the conference.” This seems like it would be a good opportunity for Rightside to discuss opportunities in the domain industry. Although the focus of Rightside will likely be more

Rightside Gets Two New Directors

According to a press release issued by Rightside this morning, the company has added two people to its Board of Directors. Diane Irvine, former Chief Executive Officer and President of Blue Nile is one new member of the board, and Shawn Colo, co-founder of Demand Media, has also been added to the company’s Board of Directors. You can read more background information about these people in the press release below.

Although I don’t believe these two people will be involved in day to day business decisions, these people seem like they are well qualified to help with the company’s management. Since it’s debut on the Nasdaq stock market as an independent company, Rightside stock has traded lower. As of the time of publication of this article, Rightside stock (symbol: NAME) is trading at $11.92. The 52 week high is $17.00 and the low is $11.11.

Here’s the entire press release with the news.

Sunday Updates

I hope you’re having a nice weekend and enjoy the rest of your Sunday. Typically, the Summer is the slow season for my business, and the next couple of weeks will likely be the slowest of the year due to vacations and time off. As a result, this may be a good time to participate in auctions and make acquisitions.

One of the nice things about this business is I can work from anywhere as much or as little as I want. On the other hand, as my wife could tell you, I tend to work from everywhere all the time 🙂

Here are a few updates I want to share with you:

Listen to Rightside Earnings Call

Shortly after the stock market closed today, Rightside issued its first-ever earnings report as an independent company. The earnings report covered the second quarter of 2014.

I will let the financial gurus discuss some of the numbers and how the results compared to what was expected, but here are a few highlights of Rightside’s results for the most recent quarter, as published by the company:

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