Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements Disclosure | The Company and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies Description of Company Web.com Group, Inc. ("Web.com" or "the Company") provides a full range of Internet services to small businesses to help them compete and succeed online. Web.com meets the needs of small businesses anywhere along their lifecycle with affordable, subscription-based solutions including domains and related security products, hosting, website design and management, search engine optimization, online marketing campaigns, local sales leads, social media, mobile products and eCommerce solutions. For more information about the Company, please visit http://www.web.com. The information obtained on or accessible through the Company's website is not incorporated into this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and you may not consider it a part of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. The Company has reviewed the criteria of Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") 280-10, Segment Reporting, and has determined that the Company is comprised of only one segment, web services and products. On January 31, 2017, the Company acquired 100% of the equity interests of Dattatec.com SRL ("DonWeb.com or DonWeb"), a hosting and domain registration company catering to the Spanish-speaking market, located in Rosario, Argentina. See Note 2, Business Combinations , for additional information surrounding the acquisition. On March 9, 2016, the Company completed the acquisition of 100% of the outstanding shares of Yodle, Inc., a Delaware corporation, ("Yodle"), for approximately $341.3 million , which included $40.9 million of deferred consideration. Yodle is a leading provider of cloud based local marketing solutions for small businesses with approximately 1,400 employees and 53,000 subscribers as of the closing of the acquisition. See Note 2, Business Combinations , for additional information surrounding the acquisition. Basis of Presentation The accompanying consolidated balance sheet as of September 30, 2017 , the consolidated statements of comprehensive income for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016 , the consolidated statements of cash flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016 , and the related notes to the consolidated financial statements are unaudited. The unaudited consolidated financial statements have been prepared on the same basis as the audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2016 , except that certain information and disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States have been condensed or excluded as permitted. In the opinion of management, the unaudited consolidated financial statements include all adjustments of a normal recurring nature necessary for the fair presentation of the Company’s financial position as of September 30, 2017 , the Company’s results of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016 , and the cash flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016 . The results of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017 , are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the year ending December 31, 2017 . The Company's financial position as of September 30, 2017 includes the assets and liabilities of Donweb.com and the results of operations and cash flows include Donweb.com from the acquisition date through September 30, 2017 . The results of operations and cash flows include Yodle from the acquisition date through the respective period end dates. Pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC, certain information and disclosures normally included in the notes to the annual financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP") have been omitted from these interim financial statements. The Company suggests that these financial statements be read in conjunction with the audited financial statements and the notes included in the Company's most recent annual report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 28, 2017, and any subsequently filed current reports on Form 8-K. Use of Estimates The preparation of the consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Sources of Revenue Subscription Revenue The Company currently derives a substantial majority of its revenue from fees associated with our subscription services, which generally include web services, online marketing, eCommerce, and domain name registration offerings. We bill a majority of our customers in advance and recognize revenue on a daily basis over the life of the contract. Generally, revenue is recognized net of sales tax. Professional Services and Other Revenue The Company also generates professional services revenue from custom website design, eCommerce store design and support services. Custom website design and eCommerce store design work is typically billed on a fixed-price basis and over very short periods. Generally, revenue is recognized net of sales tax when the service has been completed. Cost of Revenue and Operating Expenses Cost of Revenue Cost of revenue consists of expenses related to compensation of our web page development staff, domain name registration costs, directory listing fees, eCommerce store design, online marketing costs for services provided, billing costs, hosting expenses, and allocated occupancy overhead costs. The Company allocates occupancy overhead costs such as rent and utilities to all departments based on headcount. Accordingly, general overhead expenses are reflected in each cost of revenue and operating expense category. Sales and Marketing Expense The Company's direct marketing expenses include the costs associated with the online marketing channels used to promote our services and acquire customers. These channels include search marketing, affiliate marketing and partnerships. Sales and marketing costs consist primarily of compensation and related expenses for our sales and marketing staff as well as our customer support staff and allocated occupancy overhead costs. Sales and marketing expenses also include marketing programs, such as advertising, corporate sponsorships and other corporate events and communications. Technology and development Technology and development represents costs associated with creation, development and distribution of our products and websites. Technology and development expenses primarily consist of headcount-related costs associated with the design, development, deployment, testing, operation, enhancement of our products and costs associated with the data centers and all systems infrastructure costs supporting those products as well as all administrative platforms and allocated occupancy overhead costs. General and Administrative Expense General and administrative expenses consist of compensation and related expenses for executive, finance, and administration, as well as professional fees, corporate development costs, other corporate expenses, and allocated occupancy overhead costs. Depreciation and Amortization Expense Depreciation and amortization expenses relate primarily to the Company's intangible assets recorded due to the acquisitions it has completed, as well as depreciation expense from computer and other equipment, internally developed software, furniture and fixtures, and building and improvement expenditures. Foreign Currency Translation The functional currency of the Company’s Argentinian DonWeb operations and its United Kingdom-based operations is the Argentina Peso and British Pound, respectively. The Company translates the financial statements of these subsidiaries to U.S. dollars using month-end rates of exchange for assets and liabilities, historical rates of exchange for equity and average rates of exchange for revenues, costs, and expenses. Translation gains and losses are recorded in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) as a component of stockholders’ equity. In addition, the Company’s foreign operations include a customer service center and an outbound sales center in Canada and a technology center in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Company records foreign currency transaction gains and losses, and remeasurement of local currencies of these foreign subsidiaries where the functional currency is different from the local foreign currency in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income. New Accounting Standards Recently Adopted Accounting Standards In March 2016, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") 2016-09, Compensation-Stock Compensation: Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting and is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2016. The standard is intended to simplify several areas of accounting for share-based compensation arrangements, including the income tax impact, classification on the statement of cash flows, statutory withholding requirements and forfeitures. The Company adopted ASU 2016-09 in the first quarter of 2017 and recorded excess tax benefits (ETBs) as income tax expense or benefit in the income statement prospectively as of the beginning of the year of adoption and the Company continued to record shortfalls as a component of income tax expense consistent with historical practices. For interim reporting purposes, the Company reports ETBs and shortfalls as discrete items in the period in which they occur. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017 , the Company recognized a tax benefit related to the adoption of $0.2 million and $1.1 million , respectively. In addition, the guidance eliminates the requirement that ETBs be realized before companies can recognize them. The Company applied this part of the guidance using a modified retrospective transition method and recorded a cumulative-effect adjustment for previously unrecognized ETBs in opening retained earnings on January 1, 2017 upon adoption. The cumulative-effect adjustment for federal and state tax purposes is $27.0 million and $2.7 million , respectively. A valuation allowance was recorded on $1.7 million of these deferred tax assets for a portion of the state adjustment to reflect the amount realized on a "more likely than not" basis. Further, the Company presents ETBs and excess tax deficiencies as an operating activity on the statement of cash flows starting on January 1, 2017. The Company has prospectively adopted this change. The Company continues to record its stock compensation expense based on an estimate of the awards that are expected to vest, rather than recording forfeitures when they occur. Accounting Standards Issued Not Yet Adopted In May 2014, the FASB and International Accounting Standards Board ("IASB") issued ASU 2014-09 Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606), a converged standard on revenue recognition which supersedes previous revenue recognition guidance. Some of the main areas of transition to the new standard include, among others, transfer of control (revenue is recognized when a customer obtains control of a good or service), allocation of transaction price is based on relative standalone selling price (entities that sell multiple goods or services in a single arrangement must allocate the consideration to each of those goods or services), contract costs (entities sometimes incur costs, such as sales commissions or mobilization activities, to obtain or fulfill a contract), and disclosures (extensive disclosures are required to provide greater insight into both revenue that has been recognized, and revenue that is expected to be recognized in the future from existing contracts). In August 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-14 Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606), Deferral of the Effective Date, which defers the effective date of the new standard by one year, resulting in the new standard being effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those years, beginning after December 15, 2017 with early adoption as of the original effective date permitted. In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-08, Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Principal versus Agent Considerations (Reporting Revenue Gross versus Net) and in April 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-10, Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Identifying Performance Obligations and Licensing. Further in May 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-12, Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Narrow-Scope Improvements and Practical Expedients. These standards clarify the guidance in ASU 2014-09 and have the same effective date as the original standard. The Company will apply the standard using a modified retrospective approach with the cumulative effect of initially applying the standard recognized at the date of initial application inclusive of certain additional disclosures, as permitted under Topic 606. The Company has substantially completed its initial evaluation of its customer contracts and related costs to acquire and fulfill contracts and is in the process of designing necessary systematic changes to ascertain the initial and ongoing impact of the new standard on its consolidated financial statements. In January 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-01, Financial Instruments-Overall: Recognition and Measurement of Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities (Subtopic 825-10), which addresses certain aspects of the recognition, measurement, presentation and disclosure of financial instruments. The amendment will be effective for the Company beginning January 1, 2018 and the adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements or disclosures. In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842), which requires lessees to recognize on the balance sheet a right-of-use asset, representing their right to use the underlying asset for the lease term, and a lease liability for all leases with terms greater than 12 months. The guidance also requires qualitative and quantitative disclosures designed to assess the amount, timing and uncertainty of cash flows arising from leases. The standard requires the use of a modified retrospective transition approach, which includes a number of optional practical expedients that entities may elect to apply. ASU 2016-02 is effective for the Company beginning January 1, 2019 and the Company is currently evaluating the impact that ASU 2016-02 will have on its consolidated financial statements. In August 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-15, Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230): Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash Payments, addressing eight specific cash flow issues in an effort to reduce diversity in practice. The amended guidance is effective for the Company beginning after January 1, 2018, and for interim periods within those years. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact that ASU 2016-15 will have on its consolidated financial statements. In October 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-16, which requires that entities recognize the income tax consequences of an intra-entity transfer of an asset, other than inventory, when the transfer occurs. The standard will be effective for the Company on January 1, 2018. The adoption is not expected to have a material impact on the consolidated financial statements. In November 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-18, Statement of Cash Flow (Topic 230): Restricted Cash, which states that amounts generally described as restricted cash and restricted cash equivalents should be included with cash and cash equivalents when reconciling the beginning-of-period and end-of-period total amounts shown on the statement of cash flows. The amended guidance will be effective for the Company beginning January 1, 2018, and interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is permitted. Upon adoption, the Company will present restricted cash, which is currently included in other assets, with the cash and cash equivalents balances in the cash flow statement. In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-01, Business Combinations (Topic 805): Clarifying the Definition of a Business. The new guidance clarifies the definition of a business with the objective of adding guidance to assist entities with evaluating whether transactions should be accounted for as acquisitions (or disposals) of assets or businesses. The new guidance is effective for the Company beginning after January 1, 2018, including interim periods within those periods. The adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements or disclosures. In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-04, Intangibles—Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment. The new guidance requires only a one-step quantitative impairment test, whereby a goodwill impairment loss will be measured as the excess of a reporting unit’s carrying amount over its fair value (not to exceed the total goodwill allocated to that reporting unit). It eliminates Step 2 of the current two-step goodwill impairment test, under which a goodwill impairment loss is measured by comparing the implied fair value of a reporting unit’s goodwill with the carrying amount of that goodwill. For public companies, the amended guidance is effective for the Company beginning after January 1, 2020. The adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements or disclosures. In May 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-09, Compensation—Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Scope of Modification Accounting. The new guidance amends the scope of modification accounting for share-based payment arrangements and provides guidance on the types of changes to the terms or conditions of share-based payment awards to which an entity would be required to apply modification accounting under ASC 718. This standard is effective for the Company beginning January 1, 2018, including interim periods within those periods. Early adoption is permitted. The adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements or disclosures. In July 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-11, Earnings Per Share (Topic 260), Distinguishing Liabilities From Equity (Topic 480) And Derivatves And Hedging (Topic 815): Accounting For Certain Financial Instruments With Down Round Features, Replacement of the Indefinite Deferral For Mandatorily Redeemable Financial Instruments of Certain Nonpublic Entities and Certain Mandatorily Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests With a Scope Exception. The new guidance changes the classification of certain equity-linked financial instruments (or embedded features) with down round features. The amendments also clarify existing disclosure requirements for equity-classified instruments. For freestanding equity-classified financial instruments, the amendments require entities that present earnings per share (EPS) in accordance with Topic 260, Earnings Per Share, to recognize the effect of the down round feature when it is triggered. That effect is treated as a dividend and as a reduction of income available to common shareholders in basic EPS. Convertible instruments with embedded conversion options that have down round features would be subject to the specialized guidance for contingent beneficial conversion features (in Subtopic 470-20, Debt—Debt with Conversion and Other Options), including related EPS guidance (in Topic 260). The amendments in Part II of this Update recharacterize the indefinite deferral of certain provisions of Topic 480, Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity, that now are presented as pending content in the Codification, to a scope exception. Those amendments do not have an accounting effect. Part I of the new guidance affects any entity that issues financial instruments that include down round features. The amendments in Part I of this Update that relate to the recognition, measurement, and earnings per share of certain freestanding equity-classified financial instruments that include down round features affect entities that present earnings per share in accordance with the guidance in Topic 260, Earnings Per Share. Part I is effective for the Company beginning January 1, 2019 and Part II did not require transition guidance as the amendment did not have an accounting effect. The adoption of this standard is not expected to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements or disclosures. |