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Ancestry.com successfully IPOs today

Its been quite a while since 40z reported on a dot com IPO, but there was one today. Ancestry.com raised $100 million with a successful offering and began trading on the NASDAQ with the ticker ACOM. A total of 7.41 million shares were sold for 13.50 per share in the intial public offering, valuing the company at $572 million. In trading Thursday, ACOM reached an intraday high of $16.32.

172.5 million IPO filing

Ok, Its been quite a while since I've done any updates. The markets have been busy melting down of late what with all the subprime mess, and there perhaps has been a bit of a damper on splashy acquisition headlines for a while...

But here is a good one for the IPO section. Redherring is reporting that NameMedia has filed for a $172.5M IPO, with Credit Suisse as the lead underwriter. You will find another IPO filing for a domain company underwritten by Credit Suisse in my archive section. Interesting.

It appears that NameMedia is a competitor of Marchex, with hundreds of thousands of domains in its portfolio, but they also have some very interesting top tier generics such as Photography.com.

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CreditCards.com filing for IPO

According to this article at Domain Name wire CreditCards.com which was purchased for $2.75 million in 2005, is filing for an IPO to raise up to $115 million. Even more interesting, the company was acquired in 2006 for $133 million cash plus stock according SEC filings. The filings also indicate that the site has received almost 6 million visitors in the first 6 months of this year, and earned $4.64 per visitor. That should get the financial world's attention!

MoneySupermarket.com $2 billion ipo?

Looks like we've got an ipo coming over the pond. Just learning about it.

more here: timesonline.co.uk

New internet IPO

Came across this tonight, doing some research. A company called InternetBrands.com. So I explored their site a bit. And it seems they have a few solid top tier domains, Autos.com, Loan.com, VacationHomes.com and DoItYourself.com. Then another group of less significantly branded sites and forums like World66.com, NewCarTestDrive.com, etc., rounding out a total of 40 domains/sites.

They released news on July 20, 2007, regarding filing a registration statement for a proposed IPO: http://internetbrands.com/ib/news/press-releases