Tag Archives: VeriSign

Thu 26th July 2012
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VeriSign blames domain monetization for reduce renovation rate - Lower than usual renewal rate blamed on search engine changes. Verisign had its second best quarter ever for new domain name registrations last quarter, but its renewal rate was lower than usual. The company cites two reasons. First, there were large promotions by domain registrars a year ago (apparently mostly from one large registrar) that led to an uptick in new registrations that came up for renewal last quarter. Second, and more interesting, Verisign blames “search ... read more ...
Sun 15th July 2012
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Verisign Report: 233 Million Domains Registered; 7.5 Million Added; 116.7 .Com/.Net Registrations - Verisign Published its State of the Domain Report for the quarter ending March 31, 2012. (pdf) The first quarter of 2012 closed with a base of more than 233 million domain name registrations across all Top-Level Domains (TLDs), an increase of 7.5 million domain names, or 3.3 percent, over the fourth quarter of 2011. Registrations have grown by 23 million, or 11 percent, since the first quarter of 2011. The base of Country Code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) was 94.9 million domain names, a 4.8 percent ... read more ...
Mon 9th July 2012
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Verisign “Domain Exchange” obvious focus says use would be useful for typosquatters - Application filed shortly after pulling ICANN request admits a domain exchange service could be a boon for typosquatters. In April 2010 Verisign asked ICANN to allow it to introduce a “Domain Name Exchange” service. The service would have allowed registrars to exchange one domain name for another. The use case VeriSign proffered was that a web host that offers short term packages could swap out a domain if a customer canceled their account. The new service request ... read more ...
Wed 27th June 2012
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IDN village reacts to Verisign’s .com transliteration selections - The good, the bad, and the ugly of Verisign’s IDN plans. Verisign applied for 12 internationalized top level domain names as part of the new TLD program. These domain names are transliterations of .com and .net. A transliteration is different from a translation. Transliteration maps the sounds of one language to the best matching script of another. For example, コム when said aloud will sound like “com”, and is only possible because those two characters ... read more ...
Mon 25th June 2012
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ICANN Board Approves Renewal Of Verisign Contract To Run .Com for Another 6 Years - The ICANN board just issued a resolution renewing the Contract with Verisign to run the .com registry for another six years. Under the contract Verisign has the right to increase the wholesale price of .com 7% in any 4 of the six years of the contract. I appears the Board of ICANN did not adopt any of the suggestions made during the comment period Here is the resolution: “Whereas, the current .COM Registry Agreement is due to expire on 30 November 2012. “Whereas, Section 4.2 of the current .COM ... read more ...
Thu 21st June 2012
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Verisign operative to repair Hebrew IDN error - Company wants to fix error in one of its new top level domain applications. Verisign has responded to Domain Name Wire’s inquiry regarding an error in its application for a Hebrew internationalized domain name (IDN) for a transliteration of .com: Verisign is aware of the administrative error that resulted in the inclusion of a variant character in the Verisign Sàrl application for the Hebrew transliteration of .com and is working with ICANN to address the error. ICANN ... read more ...
Wed 13th June 2012
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VeriSign relates for 9 transliterations of .com and 3 of .net - VeriSign’s IDN plans finally unveiled. Internationalized Domain Name investors, your wait is over. We now know the transliterations of .com and .net that VeriSign has applied for. You can read more about VeriSign’s plans for how it will offer these to owners of existing second level IDNs for .com and .net here. Please comment if you want to say what language these are…more to follow. Also, VeriSign applied for .verisign (no surprise) and .comsec. xn--fhbei Transliteration ... read more ...
Wed 30th May 2012
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Domain bonds doing really good this year - Tucows more than doubles and other domain stocks also on a tear. It has been a decent year for the NASDAQ so far. But returns on domain stocks have been exceptional. Consider Tucows (TCX), which opened the year at 75 cents. It has more than doubled to $1.52 at today’s open. The company continues to buy back stock, but I also think there’s overall enthusiasm for its domain business and the prospects of its mobile phone offering Ting. Demand Media, which owns eNom, ... read more ...
Fri 11th May 2012
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Overstock.com: We’d still unequivocally like O.com - Overstock.com pleads for single letter .com domains in VeriSign contract renewal. For many years Overstock.com has had an obsession. An obsession with getting the domain name O.com. As you may know, there are only three one letter .com domains ever registered: q.com, x.com, and z.com. These were registered (and grandfathered) prior to a restriction on one character .com domains being put in place. Since then, Overstock.com has done everything possible to angle itself ... read more ...
 
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VeriSign releases some-more trade information about unregistered domains - .com and .net registry provides added detail about NXD traffic. VeriSign has enhanced its DomainScore tool to provide more insight into the traffic unregistered domains receive. DomainScore provides a relative score for the amount of traffic an unregistered domain name receives. But this so-called “NXD” traffic doesn’t qualify the type of traffic very well. That’s part of the reason people complain that they register a domain with a high score based on VeriSign’s ... read more ...
Mon 23rd April 2012
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ICANN’s Public Comment Period On Renewal Of Verisign Contract Closes Thursday - ICANN public comment period for the .com Registry Agreement renewal ends on Thursday April 26th. As you know, under the terms of the renewal contract Verisign will be able to raise their wholesale price on .com registration 7% in 4 out of the next 6 years. You can submit you comments on the contract to com-renewal@icann.org. You will get an email from ICANN  acknowledging the comment (this may take a little while) You have to reply to that email for your comment to be posted, received and published ... read more ...
Fri 6th April 2012
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Verisign Launches Hashlink For Domains - Verisign has just launched a new product called Verisign Domain Hashlink Here is the info from their site: “Verisign Domain Hashlink makes URLs shorter, easy-to-remember and friendlier to your users.” “You’ve worked hard to secure a web address – and keep its site content up-to-date, relevant and useful for its visitors. Now there’s a new way to help make it work even harder: by making things easier for everyone. And the best part is, it preserves – and empowers – your web address, ... read more ...
Fri 9th March 2012
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Verisign Report May Indicate That The Number Of Parked Domains Looks To Be In Significant Decline - Verisign released its Domain Name Industry Brief yesterday for the 4th quarter of 2011. At one time Verisign reported the number of parked domains but stopped that practice a few years back. The last time Verisign  reported the number or percentage of parked domains on a .com or a .net domain name that number totaled 7%. In recent years Verisign has been lumping parked domains into a category  with “One page websites” which “include under-construction, brochure-ware and parked pages in addition ... read more ...
Thu 8th March 2012
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Verisign Reports 2011 Closed With 225 Million Domain Registrations: .Com/Net Almost 114 Million - Verisign just published its  Domain Name Industry Brief report for the 4th Quarter of 2011. The fourth quarter of 2011 closed with a base of more than 225 million domain name registrations across all Top Level Domains (TLDs), which represents a 10 percent increase since the fourth quarter of 2010. The .com and .net TLDs reached 113.8 million names combined at the end of the fourth quarter of 2011, which marks an 8 percent increase in the base over the same quarter in 2010. New .com and .net registrations ... read more ...
Wed 8th February 2012
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A Pure Drop Domain Formerly Owned By Verisign, ePhoto.com Sells On SnapNames.com For $16K - The domain name ePhoto.com just sold on SnapNames.com for $16,000. The high bidder’s ID was Maxbid. In all there were 174 bidders in the auction with 7 bidding $5K or more. The domain name ePhoto.com was a pure drop domain, meaning it didn’t drop to a certain service, and could have been caught by anyone. According to DomainTools appears to have been last owned by Verisign and registered at melbourneit.com. Whether Verisign actually owned the domain or took possession of it years ago on an earlier ... read more ...
Thu 22nd December 2011
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Verisign Domain Name Industry Report For 3rd Q Is Out: 220 Million Domains: 112 Million .Com/.Net’s - Verisign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN),  just issued its Domain Name Industry Brief Report for the third quarter of 2011. As of September 30, 2011 there are nearly 220 million domain names registered worldwide across all extensions and out of which 112 Million are .com and .net domain names. The increase of 4.9 million domain names equates to a growth rate of 2.3% over the second quarter of 2011, and an 8.2% increase over the same quarter in 2010. It also marks the third straight quarter with greater than ... read more ...
Wed 31st August 2011
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VeriSign: State Of The Domain Report: 215 Million Domain Names Registered; 8.6% Increase: 110 Million .Com/.Net - Verisign just published its quarterly Domain Industry Report for the quarter ending June 30, 2011 and here are some of the highlights: The second quarter of 2011 closed with a base of 215 million domain name registrations across all Top Level Domains (TLDs), which represents a 2.5% increase over the first quarter of 2011 and a 16.9 million, or 8.6% year-over-year increase. Verisign’s combined base of .com and .net domain names ended the quarter at approximately 110 million. New .com and .net registrations ... read more ...
 
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VeriSign: 5.2 Million More Domain Names - Base of registered domain names continues to grow. VeriSign released its quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief today, reporting that the total base of domain names increased by 5.2 million last quarter to 215 million. Registrations have grown by more than 16.9 million since the second quarter of 2010. The total base of .com and .net domain names passed 110 million. There were 8.1 million new .com and .net registrations during the quarter. VeriSign manages the registry ... read more ...
Thu 14th July 2011
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.Com and .Net Price Increases Announced - Here comes your yearly fee increase. VeriSign has announced its almost-annual price increases for .com and .net domain names. The wholesale cost from VeriSign for .com domain names will increase from $7.34 to $7.85 on January 15, 2012 and the registry fee for .net domain names will increase from $4.65 to $5.11. The VeriSign fee doesn’t include ICANN’s 18 cent fee per year. So the wholesale cost of a .com domain name will be $8.03 and a .net will be $5.29. VeriSign ... read more ...
Thu 7th July 2011
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VeriSign Improves Domain Tag Cloud with DomainView - Tool lets you monitor real time domain registration trends. After writing about VeriSign’s new beta NXD data tool yesterday, I also learned that the company has upgraded its Domain Tag Cloud into a neat tool to monitor real time domain registration trends. DomainView incorporates the same data from the tag cloud — keyword frequency in recently registered domain names — and brings it to multiple formats. It also adds domain suggestions so you can see available ... read more ...
Wed 6th July 2011
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VeriSign Releases Domain Traffic Treasure Trove to a Public - VeriSign has released VERISIGN® DomainScoreâ„¢ to the public. The beta tool allows anyone to enter an unregistered domain name and get an idea of how much traffic the domain gets. DomainScore uses NXD data — basically visit requests to non existent domain names — to calculate a score ranging from 1-10. The higher the score the higher the traffic to the domain. The score is for the last full week, the last 30 days, and last 60 days. Based on my experience ... read more ...
Wed 25th May 2011
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VeriSign and Go Daddy Increase Government Lobbying - Two domain name industry heavyweights spend more on government lobbying in 2010. Both VeriSign and Go Daddy substantially increased their spending on U.S. government lobbying over the past year, data collected by Domain Name Wire show. The numbers are based on public records filed with the U.S. Senate under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. VeriSign spent $3.315 million on lobbying last year, up from $2.4 million in 2009. Go Daddy Group, which owns domain name registrar ... read more ...
 
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209.8 Million Domain Names As of April - Web adds more domain names in Q1. April started with approximately 209.8 million domain names registered according to VeriSign’s latest Domain Name Industry Brief (pdf). That means the base of registered domain names grew by 4.5 million in the first quarter. The company says there are a combined 108 million .com and .net domain names registered. I suspect we’ll see some huge PR as the base of .com domain names approaches 100 million. VeriSign estimates there ... read more ...
Wed 18th May 2011
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A New VeriSign Slogan? - Company files two trademark applications. It looks like VeriSign might be working on a new slogan for its business. The company just filed two “intent to use” trademark applications for its domain name business: Connecting the World Between the Dots and The World Is Connecting Between the Dots. They’re both clever slogans and I’m guessing they haven’t chosen which one to go with. Of course as a domain person I wonder which dots are being connected. When ... read more ...
Wed 11th May 2011
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VeriSign Monopoly Case Fizzles, No Break for Domainers - CFIT settles with VeriSign for $0. Hopes by domainers that .com prices would fall thanks to an antitrust lawsuit have officially been dashed. VeriSign just released a press release stating that Coalition for ICANN Transparency has agreed to drop a case against it. The lawsuit attacked both VeriSign’s no-bid contract with ICANN that allowed it to raise prices 7% a year as well as its planned domain waitlisting service. Although ultimately CFIT lost, I suspect their ... read more ...