Tucows also surges on Demand Media news Tucows has been on a tear lately, up about 55% since my last article “Are Domaining Stocks About to Break Out” a little over a month ago. After taking a bit of a breather the last couple weeks it got some renewed energy today on what I am assuming are run-off speculations that after the
WebValueInvestor.com - Monday, April 30, 2012 - 15:12
Are Domaining Stocks Breaking Out? I was planning on writing a post for awhile on how a nice domaining pair trade would be “long Tucows / short Demand Media”, but when I looked at the charts, it didn’t look like such a good pair trade any more. I know, value investors don’t “do charts” and eschew technical analysis, but even
WebValueInvestor.com - Saturday, February 18, 2012 - 1:33
How SOPA Will Destroy The Internet As you read this, please keep in mind that I say it all with a track record nearly 14 years of being proactive and having a zero-tolerance policy toward criminal activity and network abuse on the easyDNS system. We have great relationships with Law Enforcement Agencies both here in Canada and abroad. We are always
WebValueInvestor.com - Thursday, December 22, 2011 - 16:6
The Map is not the Territory Can a domain name be the difference between success and failure in a business? Are domain names the single best investment one can possibly make in one’s business? These are the main questions debated in an ongoing chain of posts, then my comments, and a follow-up post, and another of my comments and yet another
WebValueInvestor.com - Friday, November 18, 2011 - 16:36
Verisign domain takedown proposal very worrisome. Under a proposed Verisign initiative, all .COM/.NET domains exist at the pleasure of the United States government. Verisign just released an overview of their proposed “Anti-Abuse Domain Use Policy” Under ICANN’s Registry Services Evaluation Process. The program’s chief aim is to provide a takedown mechanism o...
WebValueInvestor.com - Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 11:42
Who Will Be The Big Winners and Losers of the New TLDs? This is a repost of a guest editorial I wrote for Domain Name News. When one looks at the track record of introducing new Top Level Domains it is perplexing to see where all the enthusiasm around unlimited new TLDs comes from. So far every attempt to roll one out owes it’s sustenance to purely
WebValueInvestor.com - Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 21:49
How to tell if a new TLD will succeed (and most won’t). I just read Rick Spence’s “What’s in a name? It could be a fortune on the Internet“, (HT to HybridDomainer), which seemingly dials the needle back to (pick one), 2005 or 2007, or maybe 2010 and drinks the Kool-Aid every domainer has on an IV drip: the notion that fortune and success can be achieved
WebValueInvestor.com - Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 7:46
