Brainstorming Domain Name Investments

[Eric Lyon]

What are the best ways to invest in the future of domain names?

1. Domain registrars: The largest publicly traded registrars are Demand Media Inc (DMD) [News], which owns eNom and Name.com, and Tucows Inc. (TCX) [News].
2. Domain registry: The largest publicly traded registry is Verisign, Inc. (VRSN) [News]. Verisign is the authoritative registry for the .com, .net, and .name generic top-level domains, the .cc and .tv country-code top-level domains, and operates the back-end systems for the .jobs and .edu sponsored top-level domains.
3. New gTLD registries: Google Inc (GOOG), Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN), Demand Media Inc (DMD) [News], etc.
4. TLD back-end provider: Neustar Inc (NSR) [News].
5. Domain portfolio holder: Marchex, Inc. (MCHX) [News].
6. Invest in premium domain names using your favorite TLDs (gTLDs or ccTLDs): Domain Investing Strategies.

[Publicly traded domain company news]


What other companies may benefit from growth in the domain industry?

Which stocks do you think will provide the most opportunity for investors?


* This thread and all encompassed posts do not make any guarantees, and you are solely responsible for any advice that you follow. Please do your own research and due diligence before you invest.

 

[johname]

Hosting: Parent company of Host Gator IPO Endurance International Group Hldgs Inc NASDAQ:EIGI

 

[SlimPickins]

Hosting: Parent company of Host Gator IPO Endurance International Group Hldgs Inc NASDAQ:EIGI

and not just HG.... also Blue Host (and MANY others: [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_International_Group"]Endurance International Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]). so the competition is not so "competitive".....

 

[Paul]

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[Joseph Green]

Web.com (NASDAQ:WWWW) purchased NetworkSolutions.com, so they might be an investment candidate, too: Web.com Completes Acquisition Of NetworkSolutions.com

They also own Register.com, which they purchased a few years ago: Web.com Announces Completion of Register.com Acquisition

Both Register.com and NetworkSolutions.com are among the top 10 domain name registrars.

 

[VURG]

Why get stocks when you can get a domain name?

Domain names are highly speculative investments and personally I think that it is good to buy a domain name for the fun of building a website and getting some low value .com at registration fee and give it value by investing your time into building something with it.

Alternatively, you can buy some good value domain names here at Namepros for a few hundred dollars that may one day be worth thousands.

 

[Honey Domains]

I think this thread is great and have been looking into these investments myself.

I think this thread is for those who know there is a huge disturbance (read opportunity) coming in the domaining industry in the next few years. Trick is making the right judgement calls coming up. Building out a site takes another set of skills which not all are prepared to learn, though it can be fun to create soemthing that pays the bills every month!

I agree investing in stocks in the registrars is a smart way to hedge your bets and take some of the risk out of the upcoming market mess, so instead of just buying a bunch of .anything domains that have little chance of maintaining their value after the hype, it may be better to bet on the companies poised to make a killing off the speculators, and have access to the best domains to sell at retail prices. Even the .coms may have some temporary?? price corrections as the supply of a domain name left of the dot, is flooded onto the market with 1000 other options to the right of the dot.

So betting on the companies becomes a lot more predictable. Nothing is certain, but it makes sense to me.

 

[Joseph Green]

Many-in-One: ISP, Domain Parking, Domain Marketplace, Domain Registrar, Web Hosting

United Internet AG (FRA:UTDI; ETR:UTDI) acts primarily via its wholly owned subsidiary 1&1 Internet AG, and Sedo Holding AG (FRA:SDO; ETR:SDO), in which it holds a majority stake.

1. 1&1 Internet AG (www.1and1.com) offers hosting and domain registration. 1&1 has been notably active with the new gTLDs.
2. Sedo Holding AG (www.sedo.com) offers domain parking, domain brokerage, and a domain marketplace.

Additional Information:

• "1&1's parent company, United Internet, became one of the first web companies to go public" (source).
• "United Internet AG has raised its stake in Sedo Holding to 96.05%... United Internet plans to integrate Sedo Holding’s affiliate and domain business into its overall business" (source).

 

[richal]

Well, when GoDaddy goes public, we can all sit back and watch DMD go to $0 and Web.com Group come back down to earth.

 

[BrandChimp]

Thousands of new crap to remember...
You want to be remembered? GO .com!
Brandables is the way to to.

Lets forget them like we forgot .travel and .areo

 

[Joseph Green]

Thousands of new crap to remember...
You want to be remembered? GO .com!
Brandables is the way to to.

This thread is about all domain-related investment opportunities; the new gTLDs are a subset of that.

 

[Joseph Green]

News: NeuStar & Web.com Make Forbes “Tech Stocks To Buy In 2014 For Growth & Value Investors”