NameMedia Plans $172.5 Million IPO

NameMedia of Waltham, MA, filed for an IPO worth up to $172.5 million. The firm, which plans to trade on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol “NAME,” bills itself as “a leader in the acquisition, development and trading of digital real estate.” It operates both a targeted online media business and an online marketplace for domain names, according to its registration statement.

Author: Rebecca Zacks

Rebecca is Xconomy's co-founder. She was previously the managing editor of Physician's First Watch, a daily e-newsletter from the publishers of New England Journal of Medicine. Before helping launch First Watch, she spent a decade covering innovation for Technology Review, Scientific American, and Discover Magazine's TV show. In 2005-2006 she was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Rebecca holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Brown University and a master's in science journalism from Boston University.