Something may be up, potentially another portfolio buy via GoDaddy’s NameFind division? It appears so!

Several domain names that were owned by Elite Domains Group have transferred to GoDaddy’s NameFind, LLC according to whois records. NameFind is the division of GoDaddy.com that acquired the Marchex and Worldwide Media domain name portfolios as well as the DomainSource domain portfolio which I discovered in mid February 2016.

UBG.com is one domain of mention that was owned by Elite Domains Group and is … Read the rest

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Several are chasing GoDaddy’s earnings report from yesterday trying to discover the domain portfolio purchase price of Worldwide Media Inc. and several sources are putting that number at $35.5 Million and the “only” acquisition for GoDaddy in Q4 2015.

Well, the later is not true based on information I discovered this morning.

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DomainSource domain portfolio, potentially just part of it, (which was the case with WWM’s) was very likely acquired by GoDaddy in fourth quarter of 2015!

GoDaddy considered Worldwide … Read the rest

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GoDaddy recently acquired Worldwide Media’s majority domain name portfolio announced on Monday and as of late last night, I started to detect that many, if not all of the portfolio are starting to move to GoDaddy!

It was mentioned in the press release that the domains would be available “immediately” but that isn’t always the case due to the nature of several things like transfers.

70,000 domain names takes a bit of time to move (mainly transfer) but name servers … Read the rest

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With the big news of the day that GoDaddy.com has acquired Marchex’s domain name portfolio, I wanted to do some digging into what GoDaddy is “likely” getting for the $34.8 Million dollars.

None of this is “official” because I work for neither company and this is fresh news. The details released are generic, and stated “200,000” domain names. Consider that 1 domain name can be worth millions on its own, simply breaking it down as a “bunch” converts to … Read the rest

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