In October, stock “short sellers” – investors who bet on the likelihood that stocks will decline in value – published misleading and inaccurate reports about “parked” .com domain names and how those domain names would be affected by ongoing changes to Google AdSense. We believe that the short sellers hoped to profit by declines in our stock price due to the false information they published. While we explained the inaccuracy of these reports at the time of their publication based on historical data, we now have a growing body of publicly available data that empirically refutes the short sellers’ predictions.
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