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Now, Breathe: Demand Media Beats Wall Street Expectation in Q3

Kara Swisher in Media on November 7, 2011 at 1:43 pm PT

The online social content company did better than expected in the recent quarter, but it still has to prove its model has more lucrative legs.

The Total.Chaos Domain Has Already Been Registered? How About Shameless.Money.Grab?

John Paczkowski in News on June 20, 2011 at 9:23 am PT

Think Internet domain namespace is an unnavigable mess now? Just wait.

Here's an Unlike.ly Tale: Gadhafi Does Swimming.ly on the Internet

Jess Bravin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 8, 2011 at 8:40 am PT

Where have the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the U.S. Air Force directed Twitter followers to learn more about military action in Libya? To an Internet domain controlled by the regime of Col. Moammar Gadhafi.

Australia's Scoopon Won't Sell URL for $286,000, So Groupon Sues

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 4, 2011 at 3:30 pm PT

Here’s the kind of attention you get when everyone thinks you have deep pockets.

Demand Media's IPO Is On Deck, With Amended Filing

Kara Swisher in News on October 29, 2010 at 8:18 am PT

Demand Media, which posted its regulatory S-1 filing in August, filed an amended version today that is likely to allow it to move quickly to an initial public offering. It now must now wait for the Securities and Exchange Commission to approve the filing, after the which the execs of the Santa Monica, Calif.-based Demand will immediately to go on a road show for several weeks to try to convince investors to jump on board. Then, if there’s enough interest, the IPO is likely to come before the holidays.

Google in the Library With a Candlestick: Demand Media's Traffic-Murder Mystery (Except It Didn't Die)

Kara Swisher in News on August 13, 2010 at 8:30 am PT

Smart investors will decide whether or not they like online content maker Demand Media, which recently filed to go public. Before Wall Street buys into the IPO, those investors will peruse the financial disclosures, assess the management and analyze the market itself. And they’ll also look at the Santa Monica, Calif., start-up’s traffic, which has been growing steadily since its founding several years ago. Except, insisted two bloggers in posts on the exact same day earlier this week, it looked like Demand’s traffic dramatically fell off over the last month. Or did it?

The Lesson of Demand Media (And AOL): The Online Content Business Is a Looooong March to the Big Time

Kara Swisher in News on August 9, 2010 at 2:56 pm PT

After news of the Demand Media IPO filing came out late last week, I was not that surprised to get an email from someone deeply involved in building an online content business. “If they are worth over a billion with those financials, I can’t wait to find out what we are worth. What am I missing?” Well, nothing actually, as Demand’s filing to raise $125 million in an initial public offering at a reported $1.5 billion valuation showed that making it big in the online content business was still slow going. It is a lesson investors can also learn from AOL’s recent travails.

D8 Video: Richard Rosenblatt Reveals (Some Of) Demand Media’s Mysterious Business Plan

Peter Kafka in D8 on June 4, 2010 at 12:15 am PT

Is Demand Media really a content farm? Or just a domain harvester? Both, of course. But CEO Richard Rosenblatt walked through some of the details onstage at D8. So what about that reported IPO? Rosenblatt won’t say a word about that…

Scott McNealy's Top 15 Reasons He's Surprised We're Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Web

Kara Swisher in News on May 27, 2010 at 7:30 am PT

Last night, BoomTown headed to San Francisco’s wedding-cake City Hall to attend “The 25 Years of .Com Gala,” which is honoring a quarter-century that I have been jacked into the matrix. Actually, it’s the 25th anniversary of the .com Internet domain name. And perhaps the most enjoyable blast from the past was the appearance of jeans-clad former Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy, who ably retains the title of Clown Prince of Silicon Valley.