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A Frank Schilling firm owns more than 5% of Rightside

SEC filing discloses interest in firm.

Some people say the domain name business is an incestuous industry. They might be right.

An SEC filing this afternoon discloses that a firm associated with Frank Schilling now owns 5.5% of the firm.

The filing was made by FTS, Corp in Grand Cayman. Schilling’s middle name is Taylor, hence FTS are his initials. The filing was made by Ria Scott Blyth, Administrative Assistant of FTS Corp. Her LinkedIn profile shows that she works for Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry.

The SEC 13D filing was necessary since FTS now owns more than 5% of the firm.

Schilling’s stake is worth regarding $8 million at today’s stock price.

Rightside owns a bunch of fresh top level domain names, eNom, Name.com, and half of NameJet.

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