Tag Archives: VeriSign

Mon 11th April 2011
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VeriSign May Be Able to Continue Hiking .Net Prices 10% Per Year - Proposed contract renewal allows for huge price increases on .net domain registrations. ICANN’s contract with VeriSign for running the .net domain name registry expires at the end of June. Thanks to a “presumptive renewal” clause, the contract won’t be put out for bidding. VeriSign also gets to pick up any goodies that rival registries have managed to get in their contracts. ICANN just posted the proposed renewal agreement for .net. It gives VeriSign the ... read more ...
Mon 28th February 2011
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Verisign Domain Report: Over 205 Million Domain Name Registrations & .Org is Catching up - Verisign just published its quarterly Domain Report for the quarter ending December 31, 2010 (pdf) According to the report as of December 31, 2010 there are over 205 Million domains registered an increase of 1.7% from the 3rd quarter and 6.3% from a year ago. .org moved up the chart from 5th most registrations to 4th most displacing .co.uk Of the more than 205 Million domains, 80 million were ccTLD’s. Renewal rates of .com stayed steady at almost 73%. “”The fourth quarter of 2010 closed with ... read more ...
Mon 14th February 2011
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VeriSign Scores a Win in Antitrust Lawsuit - Court rules plaintiffs don’t have standing to bring suit. A California court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Coalition for ICANN Transparency (CFIT) against VeriSign for its .com and .net domain name contracts. The court ruling was first reported earlier today by DomainIncite. United States District Judge Ronald Whyte ruled that CFIT didn’t have standing to bring the antitrust lawsuit. The suit originally aimed to get ICANN to make a competitive bidding process ... read more ...
Thu 27th January 2011
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VeriSign Loses Money (Sort Of) as .Com and .Net Top 105 Million - Excluding a one time charge VeriSign reports nice earnings for Q4. VeriSign reported a loss for the fourth quarter of 2010 in earnings just released. So how can the company that prints money with the .com and .net registry lose money? It was a one time charge related to contingent interest on a special dividend that swung the company to a loss. Ignore this one time event and VeriSign had a great quarter thanks to rising domain registrations. The company earned and ... read more ...
Mon 24th January 2011
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Judge Shuts Down Zuccarini Fight Against NameJet, NetSol, and VeriSign - Judge calls for an end to lengthy domain name battle. United States District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema has said enough is enough in a domain name lawsuit filed by John Zuccarini. Zuccarini filed the lawsuit after a court appointed receiver failed to renew domain names of his that were seized to settle a cybersquatting judgment. The domain names were at Network Solutions and subsequently auctioned off on NameJet when they expired. One of the domain names was bid up ... read more ...
Thu 20th January 2011
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VeriSign Devises Way to Sell More Expiring Domain Names - System would discount price of domain names until a buyer is found. VeriSign has devised a system to sell more dropping domain names by discounting their price over time. Details of the idea are in a patent application the company filed in 2009 that was just published today. U.S. patent application number 12/504396 (pdf) for “METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SALE OF DOMAIN NAMES” describes a way that a domain name registry can discount the price of domain names within ... read more ...
Mon 27th December 2010
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ICANN to Neustar: Yes, You Can Own a Registrar - Registry-Registrar separation will create interesting circumstances for established registries. ICANN Senior Vice President Kurt Pritz sent a letter to Neustar Vice President Jeff Neuman last week (pdf) regarding registry-registrar separation. ICANN’s board dropped a bombshell in November when it said there would be no restrictions on registrars owning registries for new top level domains. Observers questioned how exactly this would work for existing registries ... read more ...
Tue 7th December 2010
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VeriSign Files Trademark Applications for New “V” Logo - .Com and .Net registry may be looking to remake its image. VeriSign has filed a slew of trademark applications for “V” this week. But before you flip out, the company isn’t trying to trademark the letter itself. Instead, it appears the company is giving its stylized “v” logo a new look. The six related trademark applications feature a number of styles, but all feature a stylized letter V with part of the right side missing, creating a diamond shape protruding ... read more ...
Mon 29th November 2010
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VeriSign Confirms Over 200 Million Domain Names Registered - Domain registrations hit another milestone. Today VeriSign released its third quarter Domain Name Industry Brief (pdf) and confirmed something I suspected already — there are now more than 200 million domain names registered worldwide. By VeriSign’s count, there were more than 201.8 million domain names registered at the end of September, an increase of 3.8 million over the end of June. (The company must have revised its June number up, as it previously reported ... read more ...
Tue 23rd November 2010
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Zuccarini Case Against NameJet, NetSol, et al Moved to Virginia - Court transfers lawsuit to Virginia. In a move that may have been expected by some observers, John Zuccarini’s lawsuit against NameJet, Network Solutions, eNom, and VeriSign has been transferred to the Eastern District of Virginia. The case stems from some of John Zuccarini’s domain names that were transferred to a receiver after a cybersquatting judgment against him. The receiver let some of the domain names expire and they were subsequently auctioned off on ... read more ...
Sat 16th October 2010
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TheHill.com Covers Stearns’ Visit to TRAFFIC Plus Domain Lobbying - Influential political web site discusses domain name industry involvement in politics. The popular political site TheHill.com — which gets well over a million unique visitors a month — has published a post about Rep. Cliff Stearns’ (R-Fla.) visit to the TRAFFIC conference in Florida next week. The story mentions the types of people that will attend next week’s conference (including an optimistic 500+ attendee figure), as well as Stearns’ political ambitions. The ... read more ...
Sun 10th October 2010
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Could VeriSign Topple Web Traffic Ranking Companies? - VeriSign files two patents related to counting the web’s traffic. Web traffic ranking companies such as comScore, Alexa, and Compete.com all have limiting factors. They use various methods to figure out traffic, such as panels (people that let them track their site visits), search data, and ISPs. But this gets them only so far. Who has better traffic data? VeriSign, which is the registry for .com and .net. The company has filed two patent applications related ... read more ...
Fri 1st October 2010
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VeriSign Launches Its “Who Was” Historical Whois Service: Is It A DomainTools.com Killer? - Verisign Launched its WhoWas Product today. When I first heard about the product it sounded like a DomainTools.com killer. But now that the product has launched, I think DomainTools.com doesn’t have much to worry about. Here’s how  Verisign’s described the service when it made its request to ICANN for product approval: (pdf) “VeriSign periodically receives requests for historical domain name registration data, including information on domain name which have been deleted. These requests are ... read more ...
Thu 30th September 2010
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VeriSign Abandons Plans for 1 and 2 Character .Net Domains - Short .net domain name idea off the table. VeriSign has withdrawn its request to ICANN to allow it to release one and two character .net domain names. The company asked ICANN back in August to let it auction off any one or two letter .net domain name that wasn’t already registered. Some one and two letter domains were registered prior to a restriction on the practice that was introduced for technical reasons. A number of other registries have either already distributed ... read more ...
Tue 21st September 2010
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Domain Registration Base May Top 200 Million This Quarter - There may already be 200M domains registered. It’s possible that the total number of domain names currently registered has already exceeded 200 million. In VeriSign’s latest Domain Industry Brief (pdf), the company says June ended with a total of 196.3 million domains registered across gTLDs and ccTLDs. That’s up about 3 million from the first quarter. The second quarter is generally a little slow for domain registrations, so we might see the increase more ... read more ...
Fri 13th August 2010
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2 One Letter .Net Domains Are Registered. How Much Will Others Sell For? - 24 one letter .net domains are currently reserved. How much will they sell for? Last night I wrote about VeriSign’s request to auction off one and two character .net domain names. I did a search on the one letter .net domains, and found that two of them are already registered. These domains are grandfathered in to the system. i.net is technically owned by Inet Corp., but it’s essentially Future Media Architect’s private domain name registrar. You may ... read more ...
Thu 12th August 2010
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VeriSign Plans to Release 1 and 2 Character .Net Domains - .Net registry asks for permission to release short domain names. VeriSign has asked ICANN (pdf) to allow it to release one and two character .net domain names. In its proposal, VeriSign says it will auction the domain names in an English style auction with no end date. The auctions will continue until no further bids are received for a specific period of time. Once won at auction, these domains will act basically like any other .net domain names, with an important ... read more ...
Tue 10th August 2010
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VeriSign Gets Patent Related to Internationalized Domain Names - Patent is for method of registering and using IDNs. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted U.S. patent number 7,774,432 to VeriSign for Registering and using multilingual domain names. The patent application was a continuation of a 2001 application that was abandoned, and a provisional application from 2000. This particular application was filed in 2007. The abstract for the patent sums it up: A method, system, and computer-readable medium are described ... read more ...
Tue 3rd August 2010
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VeriSign CEO: “PPC is a Dead Thing” - PPC no longer a driver of domain name registrations, says VeriSign CEO. When it comes to growth opportunities for the .com namespace, domain parking “is a dead thing”, VeriSign President and CEO Mark McLaughlin explained on an analyst conference call yesterday. McLaughlin was responding to a question from JP Morgan Chase Co analyst Sterling Auty, who asked: …on the 7.9 million new names that came in during the quarter, you mentioned international, but are there ... read more ...
Mon 2nd August 2010
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.Com and .Net Base Tops 100 Million Domain Names - VeriSign reports growth over 100 million domain names. As forecasted, the total number of .com and .net domain names under management topped 100 million in the second quarter of 2010, reports VeriSign. The company ended the quarter with 101.5 million domains across the two top level domain names. VeriSign added 7.9 million new domain names in the quarter, representing 13% growth year-over-year. The naming services business grossed $164 million for the quarter, up ... read more ...
Thu 15th July 2010
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VeriSign Releases Information About Anti-Trust Lawsuit - Company files information with SEC regarding legal setback. Shortly after receiving an adverse decision in appeals court last week regarding an anti-trust lawsuit, VeriSign filed an 8-K with the SEC explaining the opinion. The disclosure summarizes changes to the court’s original order, and says the allegations are without merit: On July 9, 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (the “Court”) issued an order (the “Amended Order”) ... read more ...
Mon 28th June 2010
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Tell The World HowDoYou.com & Win $10K - At the ICANN meeting, VeriSign had the cameras running to capture attendees answers to how .com changed their life. Its part of VeriSign year long celebration of the 25th anniversary of the 1st .com registration. The campaign is called, HowDoYou.com. Basically VeriSign is looking for you to tell how .com changed your life and is putting up a prizes of $10,000, $5,ooo, $2,500 plus they are giving away 10 iPads. To enter the contest which is opened until August 31, 2010, to anyone in the world click ... read more ...
Sun 27th June 2010
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How to Save Money on Your Domain Renewals - Time is ticking, but here are some extra ways to save money. You have just three days until most discount domain name registrars increase their prices on .com and .net domain names thanks to wholesale increases by registry VeriSign. It’s your last chance to cleanse your portfolio and renew domains early to save some money. I’ve already renewed almost all of my domains that expire before the end of the year. Thankfully, you can save even more money on your renewals. ... read more ...
Thu 27th May 2010
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25 Years of .Com Gala Celebrates Web Innovators - Gala celebrates big companies and players in the dot.com revolution. Last night I had the honor of attending VeriSign’s “25 Years of .Com” gala at city hall in San Francisco. It was a fantastic event with a lot of the companies and people that made the internet what it is today in attendance. After cocktails, comedian Dana Carvey took to the stage to warm up the crowd. “Welcome. How many people have a net worth over $10 million? Don’t think, just raise ... read more ...
Wed 26th May 2010
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Live Coverage of VeriSign .Com Gala Tonight - VeriSign celebrates 25 years of .com this evening. I’m off to San Francisco for the 25 Years of .Com Gala this evening. The event will be hosted by one of my favorite comedians, Dana Carvey (Saturday Night Live, Wayne’s World, etc). The evening will celebrate the “.com 25″ honoring “remarkable innovators, entrepreneurs and companies whose inspiring contributions were fundamental in shaping the Internet and, thereby, forever changing the way we think and ... read more ...