Rightside Q4 investor call — Highlights from

Domain name firm Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) noted results today.

Rightside noted fourth quarter and full year financials for 2014 following the bell today.

The firm had earnings of $1.5M for Q4, and adjusted EBITDA of $0.6M. For the year it turned in a net loss of ($1.9M) and adjusted EBITDA of ($3.1M).

I just listened to the conference call, and here are some of the highlights from the quarter:

• The firm got $7.8 million for losing fresh top level domain name auctions. In Q3 it noted $8.6 million from losing seven auctions.
• As of the end of the year, Rightside’s fresh TLDs had 150,000 registrations for $5 million in cash sales. At the end of Q3 it had regarding 80,000 for $2.5 million in sales.
• 15% of fresh registrations at Rightside’s retail registrar Name.com were fresh top level domain names, and these sell for regarding 3x .com prices.
• The firm is targeting breakeven on an adjusted EBITDA basis for 2015.
• CEO Taryn Naidu states the firm will try lots of marketing approaches for its fresh TLDs next year. It is getting some traction in industry publications for its legal domains and .vet. It is also partnering with associations that have members who are targets for Rightside’s vertical TLDs.