NAME) revenue drops for second quarter in a row: Rightside (NASDAQ
Registry revenue continues to climb, but it’s a slow march.
Domain name firm Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME) noted earnings following the bell today. Its numbers show some progress, but other trends are worrying.
Q2 revenue was $54.0 million, up from $52.2 million in Q2 2015. But it’s down from the $55.1 million it noted for Q1, which was also down from the previous quarter. In other words, Rightside’s revenue has dropped two quarters in a row to start 2016. It’s true that seasonality in Rightside’s business usually makes Q4 the strongest, but revenue rose each quarter last year.
Registry revenue from fresh top level domain names and backend services increased from $2.6 million in Q1 to $2.9 million in Q2. That’s still too modest of a number to make a big difference to the top line.
Total domains under management stayed flat at regarding 16.6 million.
On the plus side, Rightside is starting to see some momentum in select fresh top level domain names. .Live is proving particularly strong with $1.3 million in cash revenue so far this year. The firm just sold two .live domains for $280,000.
Rightside noted a net loss of $2.5 million for the quarter with an adjusted EBITDA of $2.3 million.
