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Team Internet still expects over $160 million for domains business
Team Internet is continuing talks to sell off its domain name business and seems confident it could close a deal worth $160 million or more before the end of the year.
The company has been talking all year about disposing of its Domains, Identity & Software (DIS) division, recently saying it expected to be able to announce a deal “in the first half of Q3”.
With the rough deadline now passed, Team Internet said yesterday:
The strategic review is at an advanced stage, with discussions ongoing with a view to reaching a transaction in the near term, while the Board remains engaged with multiple parties interested in all or parts of the division. The Board reaffirms its expectation of a valuation materially exceeding USD 160 million; any agreed transaction is expected to complete around the year end. There can be no certainty that a transaction will be agreed.
“The deal will happen when we get the right value,” CEO Michael Riedl told analysts yesterday. “We can sell DIS only once, and that is why we are optimizing for price and not for timeline.”
The $!60 million figure is used because it was the company’s market capitalization on the London Stock Exchange when it first announced the strategic review almost a year ago. Today, its market cap is the GBP equivalent of roughly $140 million today.
From Riedl’s commentary, it sounds rather like the company has multiple parties interested in all or parts of DIS, but that selling off one chunk for a high valuation may scupper bids for the remaining chunks.
DIS operates in the registry, registrar and registry services provider parts of the domain industry.
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