Domain Registration on Record Pace? Over 750K Added Yesterday Alone - Registrations of domain names seem to be going on at a record pace.
Yesterday saw the number of domain registrations across all Top Level Domain (TLD) names have a net add of over 750,000 domains according to registrarstats.com
“Net Add” mean its the amount of domains registered less the number of domain names deleted.
The gross numbers of domain names registered yesterday were close to 900,000.
These total include all legacy domain names extensions like .com, .net and .org (22 in total) and ... read more ...
Tag Archives: VeriSign
Fri 19th February 2016
Mon 15th February 2016
.Com Tops 125 Million Domain Registrations -
According to Verisign (VRSN) the registry for .Com, the number of .Com registration crossed the 125 million mark in the Domain Name Base.
The active zone file is just over 124 Million domain names.
The active zone file does not include domain names that are not configured for use, and those in client or server hold status.
At TheDomains.com when we report on .Com domain registrations we always use the Domain Name Base figure.
In January 2014 the number of .com registrations stood at 112 Million.
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Fri 12th February 2016
Verisign: What goes adult competence come down - Strong end of 2015 could make for a challenging end to 2016.
.Com domain name registry Verisign reported Q4 results after the bell yesterday.
Thanks to Chinese domain name investors, the company had 12.2 million new domain name registrations for .com and .net last quarter, as compared to 8.2 million for the same quarter in 2014. This boosted its base of .com and .net by 4.6 million after deletions.
Verisign does not expect this surge to continue. It expects a return to normalcy in Q1, with net additions ... read more ...
Verisign Working On Getting Contract To Operate .Com Registry For 10 More Years - In the earnings call today, Verisign (VRSN) announced that it was in “in the final stages of drafting the new Root Zone Maintainer Agreement with ICANN “to perform this Root Zone Maintainer role as a commercial service for ICANN upon the successful transition of the IANA functions.”
“To ensure that root operations continue to perform at the same high level during the expected 10-year term of the Root Zone Maintainer Agreement, ICANN and VeriSign are in discussions to extend the term of the ... read more ...
Verisign Expects Higher Non-Renewal Rates From Those 4th Q Domains Reg By Chinese Investors - Verisign reported its earnings for the 4th quarter of 2015 and financial results for 2015.
In the earnings call today, Verisign made some interesting comments about that huge volume of .Com domain name registration we saw from Asia the 4th quarter of 2015:
Bottom line Verisign expects those domain names registered in the 4th quarter, which those in the domain investor community, know consisted of a lot of numeric domain names NNNNNNNN.com going into the 8,9 and even 10 digits long, and domain names ... read more ...
Wed 10th February 2016
Verisign files opening brief in interest opposite .XYZ - David v. Goliath battle continues in appeals court.
Verisign has filed its opening brief (pdf) with the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, in its dispute with new top level domain name company XYZ.
In October 2015, a federal district judge dismissed Verisign’s lawsuit against the operator of the .xyz domain name. Verisign subsequently appealed.
Verisign argues that the district judge misapplied the standards for summary judgment and misinterpreted statements of fact.
At the heart of Verisign’s ... read more ...
China dominates new .com registration trends - Chinese names are a big hit in .com.
Verisign has released its monthly trending keywords report, and words tied to China dominated last month.
The list considers which keywords made the biggest jump in registrations from one month to the next. Here are the top ten for last month:
1. Jin
2. Fang
3. Yun
4. Bao
5. Rong
6. Smith
7. Lock
8. Che
9. Feng
10. Yin
My grasp of Chinese is limited, but I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that people registered a lot of personal names.
As for “Smith” ... read more ...
Wed 13th January 2016
Lice, Chinese difference trending in .com - Lots of lice in .com last month.
Verisign has published its monthly trending keywords report, showing the keywords making the biggest jump in domain name registrations compared to the prior month.
Clinic came in at #1 on the list and Lice is #4. This is thanks to a whopping 1,600 domains registered by a lice removal clinic. It registered names such as LiceClinicsArlington.com and LiceClinicsIllinois.com.
Other keywords on the list are likely related to the Chinese domain name registration surge. ... read more ...
Tue 12th January 2016
Verisign's Top Trending Keywords In Dec For .Com & .Net Include Chinese Fang & Wang - The top 10 trending keywords registered in .com and .net during the month of December 2015 are below release by Verisign the registry for .Com and .Net are as follows.
Interesting to note that Wang is the third biggest gTLD extension (.Wang) by registration volume with over 620,000 registrations as of today’s totals.
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Tue 5th January 2016
The Number of .Com Domains Top 124 Million For The First Time - According to Verisign the number of the .Com domain names has crossed the 124 million mark for the first time today.
As of Dec. 31, 2014, the base of registered names in .com equaled 115.6 million names.
We are running a poll on the right hand side of our site on how many .com domain names you think will be registered as of January 1, 2017 please feel free to vote and for bragging rights you can put your exact picks in the comments of this post.
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Sat 2nd January 2016
Quick Poll: How Many .Com's Will Be Registered By 1/1/17? - So the final count for the number of registered domain names for January 1, 2016 is 123,963,640 according to Verisign.
As of Dec. 31, 2014, the number of .Com registrations were 115.6 million names.
So the number of .Com’s increased some 7 Million in 2015 or over 7%.
The question is how many .Com will be registered by next year, 1/1/17?
This year we all know we had a short period of time where millions of .Com’s that were previously unregistered got registered by people in China.
2015 was a very ... read more ...
Fri 18th December 2015
Verisign IDNs: Landrush sum and Premium Domains - Landrush will not be like Early Access.
Verisign is getting ready to launch its first internationalized domain name, a Japanese transliteration of .com .コム.
Based on comments Verisign CEO James Bidzos made on an investor conference call, it seemed that the company was considering a declining price “Early Access” model for landrush.
Early Access was popularized by Donuts, and is essentially a dutch auction model in which the price to register a domain name decreases over time.
Verisign is ... read more ...
Thu 17th December 2015
Verisign DNIB Q3 2015 Registrations have grown by 14.8 million, or 5.2 percent, year over year - Verisign (VRSN) released their 2015 Q3 Industry Brief
Some takeaways:
The total number of registered domain names rose to 299 million worldwide across all top-level domains
3.1 million domain names were added to the Internet in Q3 2015:
This increase globally equates to a growth rate of 1.1% over Q2 2015
Worldwide registrations have grown by 14.8 million, or 5.2 percent, year over year.
The .com and .net TLDs reached a combined total of approximately 135.2 million domain names in the domain name ... read more ...
Tue 8th December 2015
"China" is #1 trending word in .Com - Thousands of registrations over two days help “China” spike.
It turns out the Chinese aren’t just buying numeric and short .com domain names.
“China” was the #1 trending word in new .com registrations last month according to .com registry Verisign. It seems that there was a spike in domain name registrations containing China followed by three letters (e.g. Chinadjr.com) on November 13-14.
Drone was also a trending term last month.
And no research is necessary to understand why “Friday”, ... read more ...
Sun 6th December 2015
.XYZ asks Verisign to compensate $1.6 million in fees from lawsuit - The .XYZ domain name registry has asked a court (pdf) to force Verisign to pay $1.6 million in fees and expenses related to the lawsuit Verisign filed against it.
Verisign, the $10 billion (market cap) company that runs .com, sued XYZ for false advertising claims.
The judge overseeing the case eventually granted XYZ’s motion for summary judgment.
But that was after XYZ paid $1.6 million in fees and expenses to defend itself, a massive sum for the startup. XYZ claims the ongoing costs of the suit ... read more ...
Thu 3rd December 2015
China to make Real Name Verification on .Com Domain Names - The government of China is clamping down on registrants of .com domain names.
Regulations that have prevented Chinese residents from using many new top level domain names will soon affect .com and .net domain name registrations, too.
The rules will apply to .com and .net domain name registrations starting March 1, 2016, according to documents obtained by Domain Name Wire.
At that time, domain name registrars in China will have to obtain Real Name Verification and Domain Name Verification for each ... read more ...
The Latest .Com Winners and Losers - Uniregistry and China continue to show good transfer results.
ICANN has published Verisign’s registrar data for .com from August. As I do every month, I crunched the numbers to see which registrars performed best.
Keep in mind that these reports are published after a three-month delay. So this post is about August’s results.
Let’s start by reviewing which registrars added the most new .com domain name registrations:
1. GoDaddy* 891,979
2. eNom** 213,291
3. HiChina 146,490
4. PublicDomainRegistry ... read more ...
Wed 2nd December 2015
Verisign CEO discusses 2018 .com agreement renovation and cost increases - Bidzos says it’s early to speculate about contract renewal, but cites two factors that might allow it to raise .com prices in the future.
Will Verisign be able to increase .com prices when it renews its contract for the domain name in 2018?
Verisign’s 2006 contract gave it the right to increase .com prices 7% in 4 out of the 6 years of its contract. It agreed to a similar deal with ICANN in 2012, only to have the U.S. Department of Justice step in and say that the new six-year contract shouldn’t ... read more ...
Tue 24th November 2015
Verisign gets obvious for evaluating typeability of domain names - Patent describes ways to score domain names based on how easy it is to type them on different keyboards.
Verisign’s patent describes a way to figure out how challenging it is to type a domain name on different keyboard types.The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 9,195,316 to Verisign for “Evaluating typeability of domain names.”
The patent describes a way of taking different inputs, namely the layout/type of keyboard, and then figuring out how easy it is to type a particular ... read more ...
Fri 20th November 2015
Judge: .XYZ statements were puffery and opinion - Judge explains why he dismissed Verisign’s lawsuit.
Daniel Negari has lots to smile about today.Judge Claude M. Hilton has issued his reason for granting .XYZ’s motion for summary judgment in a battle with .com giant Verisign.
The judge granted the motion for summary judgment on October 26. In an opinion released today, Hilton said that .XYZ’s and Daniel Negari’s statements were a combination of fact, opinion and puffery.
For example, saying “all the good real estate is taken” is merely ... read more ...
Judge In 1st Verisign vs. XYZ Case Publishes 15 Page Opinion - The federal judge CLAUDE M. HILTON who granted a summary judgement in favor of .XYZ and Daniel Negari last month throwing Verisign’s case for false advertising out, today handed down a 15 page Memorandum Opinion supporting the summary judgement decision and of course its very interesting.
Here are the highlights:
THIS MATTER comes before the Court on Defendants XYZ.COM, LLC and Daniel Negari ‘s (“XYZ” or “Defendants”) Motion for Summary Judgment.
Plaintiff Verisign, Inc Defendant XYZ ... read more ...
XYZ 2, Verisign 0 - Judge dismisses registry change lawsuit.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit Verisign filed against .XYZ and CentralNic.
Verisign sued the companies after two of Verisign’s clients sold their top level domain names to .XYZ and switched to CentralNic for registry services.
.XYZ acquired .Theatre, .Protection and .Security. The original applicants for these domain names had contracted with Verisign to run them. Once .XYZ bought the names; it wanted to move the names to CentralNic since the company ... read more ...
XYZ & Negari Beats Verisign In Federal Court, Again: CentralNic Too - .XYZ has just won another court battle against Verisign (VRSN).
Back three weeks ago a Federal Court dismissed a case brought by Verisign against XYZ.com, the registry for .XYZ and Daniel Negari personally alleging false advertising by granting XYZ and Negari a short summary judgement opinion.
Now in a second case in Verisign sued XYZ.COM, DANIEL NEGARI and CentralNic, which is the back-end provider for the .XYZ registry, for tortuous interference and business conspiracy relating to changing ... read more ...
Wed 18th November 2015
As .Com registrations surge, is Verisign a good buy? - Domain name registrations are outpacing Verisign’s guidance.
There was a rather spirited conversation over at DomainSherpa today about the landrush on short domain names.
Is it a bubble? Maybe so. But guests Frank Schilling, Andrew Rosener and Shane Cultra discussed one way you can play in this boom without ever buying a numeric or four character domain name: buy Verisign stock.
The thinking is that most analysts and people following the stock market aren’t keeping up-to-date with .com and .net ... read more ...
3.2 Million .Com Added In Last 3 Weeks More Than Increase In All Domains in 2Q - As of today Verisign is reporting that the .Com zone file has topped 123 million domain names; 123,203,096
On October 27, 2015, three weeks ago, the .com zone file topped 120 Million for the first time and had 120,034,068 domain names.
So we are looking at an increase of almost 3.2 million new .com domain names since October 27th, three weeks ago.
Consider that Verisign reported in this last Domain Industry Brief for second quarter of 2015 there were “296 million domain name registrations across ... read more ...