Demand Media touts fresh TLDs in latest earnings, domains increase to 14 million

Demand Media puts fresh TLDs front and center in earnings release.

Demand Media just released its first quarter earnings. It noted a slight profit of $0.7M ahead of adjustments.

But more interesting to the domain world is the focus the firm’s earnings release places on fresh TLDs.

The first paragraph proudly discloses that the firm has signed up 400 resellers for its fresh TLDs (though eNom) and has received 2 millions “expressions of interest” from people interested in registering particular fresh TLDs. You can think of these expressions of interest as good leads for the firm once fresh TLDs finally come out. (The 2 million number was disclosed by the firm previously.)

Demand Media’s domain name business ended the first quarter with 14.0 million domains under management, thanks to the Name.com buyout.

The registrar business made up 35% of Demand Media’s business in Q1, down from 37% in the same quarter last year.

The firm is exploring spinning off the domain business.