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Sedo Reports $1,2 Million in Domain Sales ! Partners.com tops weekly sales list at $125,000

Sedo Reports $1,2 Million in Domain Sales ! Partners.com tops weekly sales list at $125,000

Partners.com topped Sedo’s weekly sales chart at $125,000.Highlights also include VideoShop.tv,leading the ccTLD category at 14,000 EUR and Assurance.org,leading the “Other” category at 16,500 EUR.

Other notable domain name sales include :

.COM

banque.com 68,000 EUR

cinema6.com 22,000 EUR

midcap.com 17,500 USD

thedefenders.com 10,500 USD

marketinglist.com 10,000 USD

johaug.com 8,000 EUR

gopoker.com 7,800 USD

firstcomeslove.com 7,600 USD

petspecialty.com 7,000 USD

gustino.com 6,900 EUR

chinalion.com 6,500 USD

carringtonrealestate.com 6,500 USD

everwood.com 6,300 USD

linkfire.com 6,000 USD

trustmedia.com 6,000 EUR

stingl.com 5,500 USD

pilotschool.com 5,100 USD

reggaechannel.com 5,000 USD

ezreviews.com 5,000 USD

adventuremovies.com 4,300 USD

dynamicapp.com 4,000 USD

premierfinancial.com 4,000 USD

workinnorway.com 4,000 USD

bmatch.com 4,000 USD

knitta.com 4,000 USD

brandcap.com      3,900     USD

jiomobile.com      3,900     EUR

carloanworld.com      3,875     USD

performanceconsulting.com      3,510     USD

ephex.com      3,500     USD

alwatany.com      3,500     USD

clari.com      3,425     USD

6games.com      3,290     EUR

teraportal.com      3,195     USD

winvia.com      3,000     USD

energymind.com      3,000     GBP

besthostels.com      3,000     EUR

ccTLD

xforex.it 10,020 EUR

happy-size.ru 10,000 EUR

weightloss.tv 8,500 USD

b2s.de 4,500 EUR

yelp.com.ph 4,000 USD

ebooks.eu 3,200 EUR

thebar.fr 3,000 USD

meo.co 3,000 USD

tamiya.nl 2,999 EUR

stoba.de 2,800 EUR

sal.es 2,750 USD

pimpernel.de 2,500 EUR

xco.co 2,500 EUR

stal.in 2,500 USD

suchen-finden.de 2,200 EUR

lio.co 2,000 USD

casinoroulette.fr 2,000 USD

talentakademie.de 2,000 EUR

snr.co 2,000 USD

For more details check out Sedo.com


 

 

Afternic Reports $1,1 Million in Domain Sales

Demand Media Reports Q4 and Fiscal 2012 Results and plans to separate the company into two different companies

Demand Media ,one of the leading domain name services company reported financial results for the fiscal year and fourth quarter ended December 31,2012 .Moreover,the company announced that they are planning to separate the company into two different companies.

Q4 2012 Financial Summary:

  • Content & Media revenue ex-TAC grew 25% year-over-year, driven by 24% page view growth on the Company’s owned & operated properties as well as 37% growth in network RPMs ex-TAC, reflecting higher revenue from network content partners.
  • Registrar revenue grew 10% year-over-year, driven by an increase in the number of domains on our platform, due primarily to growth from new partners.
  • Adjusted EBITDA increased 24% year-over-year, resulting in 110 basis points of margin expansion to 30.3% of Revenue ex-TAC. This improvement was driven by the growth in higher margin Content & Media revenue and operating leverage.

“In 2012 we generated over $60 million of free cash flow, which more than funded our acquisition of Name.com and the repurchase of nearly $9 million of our common stock,” said Demand Media’s CFO Mel Tang. “We plan to continue reinvesting our strong cash flows into long-term growth opportunities, such as our gTLD initiative as well as growing and diversifying our content offerings.”

Business Highlights:

  • Demand Media ranked as a top 20 US web property throughout 2012, and ranked #13 in January 2013.(1)
  • Demand Media reached more than 125 million unique visitors worldwide in January 2013.(1)
  • eHow.com ranked as the #12 website in the US, with 62.0 million unique users in January 2013.(1)
  • LIVESTRONG.COM/eHow Health ranked as the #3 Health property in the US in January 2013.(1)
  • Cracked ranked as the #1 Humor property in the US in January 2013.(1)

On December 31, 2012, Demand Media acquired retail registrar Name.com, expanding its registrar platform as it prepares for the historic release of new gTLDs.

During the fourth quarter of 2012, Demand Media repurchased approximately 572,000 shares of common stock for $4.9 million under its Board-authorized $50.0 million share repurchase program. To date, the Company has repurchased approximately 4.0 million shares of common stock for $30.8 million.

On February 19, 2013, the Company announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a plan to explore the separation of its business into two distinct publicly traded companies.

First Quarter 2013

  • Revenue in the range of $100.0 – $102.0 million
  • Revenue ex-TAC in the range of $94.0 – $96.0 million
  • Adjusted EBITDA in the range of $23.5 – $25.5 million
  • Adjusted EPS in the range of $0.07 – $0.08 per share
  • Weighted average diluted shares 89.0 – 90.0 million

Full Year 2013

  • Revenue in the range of $435.0 – $443.0 million
  • Revenue ex-TAC in the range of $410.0 – $418.0 million
  • Adjusted EBITDA in the range of $110.0 – $115.0 million
  • Adjusted EPS in the range of $0.39 – $0.43 per share
  • Weighted average diluted shares 89.0 – 91.0 million

More details about the Q4 and Fiscal 2012 results you can find here .

Moreover,the company shocked everybody when it announed that they are considering to separate its business into two independent companies : a pure-play media company “with a powerful outsourced content creation platform that organically grows its audience, leading web properties that reach over 100 million monthly unique visitors, and an integrated monetization platform that incorporates branded, network and mobile revenue streams” and a pure-play domain services company “that would be the only end-to-end provider offering registry services, expansive wholesale and retail distribution, and comprehensive aftermarket services.”

More information about the separation you can find here .