Month: May 2006

Go Daddy’s rumored IPO took a step towards reality as Go Daddy filed its initial public offering. Actually, the more interesting aspect about Go Daddy is their trend history on Google Trends. Looks to me like the two spikes in search volume in the first quarter of 2005 and 2006 coincide with their Superbowl ads. Now, if you already know the company is called Go Daddy, why are you searching for go daddy in Google instead of just going directly to www.godaddy.com?

Anyways, you can now find Go Daddy contracts on the site, as well as Tucows contracts, Network Solutions contracts and Verisign contracts.

Reuters: DivX files with U.S. SEC for $135 mln IPO. Media software maker DivX Inc. may raise up to $135 million in an initial public offering, according to regulatory a filing on Friday.

Why that sounds almost respectable. That’s not what they were calling DivX a few years ago. I found some interesting DivX contracts, including a Google Toolbar Distribution Agreement and an MPEG-4 License Agreement.

Forbes: Citron’s Vonage Pumps Up IPO View, Gains Turf. Vonage Holdings upped the amount it hopes to raise in its initial public offering by more than 100%.

I’ve added Vonage contracts to the site — mostly employment agreements and service agreements.

CBC Canada: Corel returns as publicly traded company. Corel’s stock price closed at $17.95, down 16 cents from the company’s initial public offering price of $18.11.
Shares in Corel, which was taken private in 2003 by San Francisco-based Vector Capital, also began trading on Nasdaq after being priced at $16 US. The stock finished at $15.85 US.

If a public company is taken private, then sells shares to the public again, does this still count as an IPO? After all, this isn’t exactly its “initial” public offering. I’ve added updated the Corel contracts page with the contracts from their most-recent IPO.