Seekingalpha.com, a site that follow public companies, gave a very positive review of Tucows.com shares this morning, (a member of our Domain Parking Stock Index) calling it a “cash rich” company, saying in part:
“All told, Tucows strikes me as a relatively low margin business with low (and perhaps negative) capital costs that has deployed its retained earnings profitably for shareholders in recent years. Though GoDaddy is the dominant player in the sector, Tucows has added customers and concentrated its business lines. If Tucows continues to divest its non-strategic assets and contain its costs, I would not be surprised to see them earn more than $7 million this year ($4.5 million from operations and $2.5 from after-tax sale of investments). With a market cap of $29 million (as of 7/30/09), management and the Board should have an opportunity to buy back shares quite cheaply.
That is, unless enterprising investors find it first.”"
Another nice story on a publicly held company in the domain space.
Last nights we published a positive story on Marchex posted by Fool.com.
We believe the best way to build a successful online business is to find a niche and fill it. Missouri's Bruce Marler believes that too and he is doing it right now by building a statewide network at Missouri.me that makes online advertising for businesses in Missouri's overlooked rural communities easy and affordable.
The Fool.com, had some good news for Marchex, in its analysis of the Yahoo-Microsoft Deal.
The Fool.com, which follows public companies, in analyzing the Yahoo/Microsoft deal said about Marchex:
“”Advertisers paying more for leads, as a result of Yahoo! shutting down its self-serve platform, will benefit the Web’s other lead generators.
“”Marchex is one of my favorites.
“”The local search specialist runs vertical advertising networks, the OpenList local search directory, and even a service that turns online leads into higher-converting phone calls. It also has an enviable portfolio of roughly 200,000 domain names, allowing it to generate its own organic traffic (instead of overpaying, as everyone else will).”"
You got to love that the Fool.com recognizes the value of domains and the organic traffic they generate.
Tom Gardner, co-founder of the Motley Fool is no stranger to domains.
Mr. Gardner was the keynote Speaker at TRAFFIC East in 2006.
OpenSRS, the wholesale reseller services group of Tucows, has announced that it will be adding “Sub-Resellers Support” to its platform on August 6, 2009.
The new addition is expected to give domain resellers the ability to brand their business, handle account funding and commissions, control pricing plans, create business networks, maintain their own domain store, and much more.
Click here to access the OpenSRS Sub-Reseller Documentation to explore the many new features and how it will all work.
[via OpenSRS]
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DomainConvergence | August 12-13, 2009 | Toronto, ON, Canada
Keynote speakers: The Castello Brothers on "Branding your Domain"
Christian Heilmann, Developer Evangelist, Yahoo!
Start date: Tuesday, August 25th, 2009, Start price: 1.00, Description: As the boys of summer gear up to make a run at the World Series, now is a great time to get your hands on a pair of generic, one-word baseball domains. Ballplayer.info and Ballplayers.info would work great as as a baseball almanac, encyclopedia, player statistics reference, or a rotisserie resource. Of course you could always use the pair of domains as directories for existing baseball and other ballplayer websites.
No other game lends itself to history and statistics like Baseball. As such, the .info extension works with this package of domains.
The auction will be starting soon. Get ready to Play Ball !
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This is a no reserve auction and bidding starts at $1. If your pre-bid wins the auction, you will get a 2% cashback bonus. You may place your pre-bid now to instantly get in on the action.
Good luck, and happy bidding!
Start date: Tuesday, August 18th, 2009, Start price: 1.00, Description: SpeedInstitute.com includes a very unique domain, logo, and monetized website. Thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours invested in development. My loss, your gain. Grab it while you can. Ready for a real monetization expert to take it the rest of the way to the bank.
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Start date: Friday, August 14th, 2009, Start price: 1.00, Description: US job loss domain name. Very relevant. Very marketable.
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Start date: Wednesday, August 12th, 2009, Start price: 1.00, Description: NewYorkGallery.info
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Start date: Monday, August 10th, 2009, Start price: 1.00, Description: Here comes GolfExpert.org! The Sport of Golf is so very popular and all of us that play are experts! Right? In all seriouness there are so many quality "experts" in the game and here is a chance to pick up a great "Golf" domain.
The video is a ""MUST" watch and you will see why on any given day anyone can feel like an expert!! Golf is a great Game!!
Enjoy the Auction!!
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This is a no reserve auction and bidding starts at $1. If your pre-bid wins the auction, you will get a 2% cashback bonus. You may place your pre-bid now to instantly get in on the action.
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Start date: Monday, August 10th, 2009, Start price: 1.00, Description: DesignerExpert.com is the perfect domain name for a website design company, an interior design group, clothing designer, graphic designer or an
architectural firm. This generic name directly brands the online business as the expert consumers want to do business with.
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This is a no reserve auction and bidding starts at $1. If your pre-bid wins the auction, you will get a 2% cashback bonus. You may place your pre-bid now to instantly get in on the action.
Good luck, and happy bidding!