Tag Archives: VeriSign

Tue 10th November 2015
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Verisign Trending Keywords For Oct Include TM of Nike - Verisign(VRSN)  just published it’s  trending keywords for domain names registered in .com and .net in October The term “Ok ” is the number one .Com trending term, which is pretty strange. Words on  the trending list for .com  include; walk, blab, sold It’s pretty early for Christmas, but it’s never to early for marijuana. On the .Net list I don’t know who is registering all those domains with Nike in them but its unusual to see a trademarked terms on the top 10 list With that said, ... read more ...
 
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Verisign's .IDN priority duration identical to .Porn - Domains will be available during a limited matching period. Verisign has released more information about its IDN transliteration launches. As expected, the launches will include a Priority Access Program that allows existing registrants of second level domain names to buy matching domain names in the new IDN-as-.com extensions. This is similar to what ICM Registry did for .Porn, .Adult and .Sex. Verisign and ICM Registry had originally hoped to continually reserve matching domain names at the second ... read more ...
Sun 8th November 2015
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Domain Registration At a Record Pace 460,000, Yesterday - The huge surge in daily domain name registrations continued yesterday as over 460,000 domain names were registered across all Top Level Domains (excluding ccTLD). Traditionally the number of domain name registrations slow on the weekend, to the point where it’s not unusual to see the number of  .Com deleted,  exceed the number of new registrations for the day, leading to a negative number. Well not yesterday. The total number of new domain registrations Saturday was over 460,000. .Com had over ... read more ...
Thu 29th October 2015
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Verisign gets obvious for Domain Name Exchange - Company proposes service in 2010 but abandoned idea. The U.S. Patent and Trademark office has granted patent number 9,172,673 (pdf) to Verisign for “Systems and methods for domain name exchange”. The system would allow someone to trade in their existing domain name for another, perhaps on an unlimited basis. Verisign asked ICANN to allow it to offer such a service in April 2010, noting that it would be helpful to webhosts who offer trials and monthly subscriptions to customers. If the customer ... read more ...
Wed 28th October 2015
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Verisign: new TLDs are inspiring .Com growth - Company makes admission for first time in latest SEC filing. Verisign made a subtle, but important, change in its risk language in its third quarter 10-Q report filed with the SEC. I picked up on this change using the Intelligize SEC document comparison tool. Here’s the relevant content from the Q2 report: We do not yet know the impact, if any, that these new gTLDs may have on our business, including if or how the introduction of these new gTLDs will affect registrations for .com and .net and therefore ... read more ...
Mon 26th October 2015
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Verisign v. XYZ set for jury hearing subsequent week - Verisign’s false advertising case about .xyz top level domain name is scheduled for jury trial next week. [Update: the judge has granted summary judgment to XYZ.] .Com registry Verisign is scheduled to present its case against .XYZ next week in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia. Verisign filed a false advertising suit against .XYZ and its founder Daniel Negari in December. At the center of Verisign’s argument is that .XYZ gave away free .xyz domain names and then used these “inflated” ... read more ...
 
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The .Brand Challenge to .Com - “Ancillary” .com domain name purchases might be jeopardized when companies start using .brand domain names. On last week’s Verisign investor conference call, an analyst asked the company what effect .brand domain names might have on .com. Verisign CEO James Bidzos said that, even if a company adopts a .brand domain name, they won’t abandon .com. His point was that if a company like Google starts using .Google instead of Google.com (my example), it’s not going to let Google.com expire in ... read more ...
Thu 22nd October 2015
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Verisign Reports: 135.2M .Com/.Net Domains, Increase 3.4% : Has $1.9 Billion In The Bank - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today reported financial results for the third quarter of 2015. VeriSign, Inc. and subsidiaries (“Verisign”) reported revenue of $266 million for the third quarter of 2015, up 4.2% from the same quarter in 2014. Verisign reported net income of $92 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.70 for the third quarter of 2015, compared to net income of $95 million and diluted EPS of $0.69 for the same quarter in 2014. The operating margin was 58.1% for the third ... read more ...
 
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Verisign: 9.2 million new .com and .net registrations final quarter - Verisign drives new registrations, grows overall base in .com and .net. Verisign reported earnings this afternoon, and disclosed that it handled 9.2 million new .com and .net registrations in Q3. The number of new registrations per quarter is typically in the 8-9 million range. On its investor conference call today, Verisign executives said the growth was driven internationally, particularly in Asia (including China and India). The company expects the pace of activity in the 3rd quarter to slow sequentially ... read more ...
Wed 14th October 2015
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Verisign: XYZ Is 6 On The Top 10 Trending Keyword For .Com Registrations In September - Verisign’s (VRSN) published the top 10 keywords in registered in .COM and .NET in September and with the help of Google who bought amazing publicity to the .XYZ extension with its acquisition of abc.xyz, the term XYZ was number 6 on the top 10 .com list. In all 2356 .com domain names were registered that contained XYZ and here is the list of  September .com registrations that contained XYZ Curiously the domain name google-abcdefghijklmnopkrstuvwxyz.com was registered in September before it was ... read more ...
 
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XYZ is trending…in .Com - XYZ makes .com’s trending keywords list. The .XYZ domain name has garnered a lot of attention since Google’s new parent company Alphabet selected ABC.XYZ for its domain name in August. Now XYZ is hot in .com. Verisign released its monthly review of the top “trending” keywords in .com for last month, and sitting at #6 is .xyz. Verisign and .XYZ are due in court early next month for a false advertising lawsuit, in which Verisign claims .xyz’s marketing has hurt .com. Hmmm…perhaps it’s ... read more ...
Mon 12th October 2015
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New gTLD's: Stock Firm Trefis Says Verisign "Doesn't Have Much To Worry About" - Stock investment firm Trefis.com issued a report on Verisign (VRSN) today entitled “The New Domain Name Game” and concluded when it comes to new gTLD’s (new domain name extensions): “It appears that VeriSign doesn’t have much to worry about, at the moment, when it comes to the introduction of new domain name extensions. “Even though the company’s market share has been reduced (52.5% in 2007 to 46.6% in 2014) and will probably continue to decline in the future due to higher competition ... read more ...
Mon 5th October 2015
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Big Up Swing In Personal Domain Registration To Point To Social Media Sites - GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), and Verisign (VRSN) are seeing an upswing in people registering “personal domain names” just to point them to their social media sites. It seems people have gotten the word that they don’t control their social media pages, the underlying social media company’s do so they are registering these personal domain names and pointing them to a their social media page. According to a press release Godaddy published today said they are seeing an increase of 37% of such domains ... read more ...
 
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.Com Winners Update: Google Domains is Growing - Here’s how registrars fared with .com in June. ICANN has published Verisign’s registrar data for .com from June. As always, GoDaddy dominated the charts in terms of new registrations. And, for the second month in a row, it avoided the top 5 when it comes to net transfer losses. But the bigger story to me is Google, which is growing its new registrar at a rapid clip. Google continues to get lots of inbound transfers, and also generated 18,675 new .com registrations in June. It ended the month ... read more ...
Wed 16th September 2015
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Verisign Q2 ’15 DNIB Report – Internet Grows to 296 Million Domain Names - Verisign is out with their latest industry brief, they also published an infographic to go along with the report. The infographic is in pdf format so you can view it here. Highlights of the report include: The total number of registered domain names rose to 296 million worldwide across all top-level domains Two million domain names were added to the Internet in Q2 2015: This increase globally equates to a growth rate of 0.8% over Q1 2015 Worldwide registrations have grown by 16.4 million, or 5.9%, ... read more ...
Tue 8th September 2015
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Verisign: Trump & Alphabet Both Make tip 10 Trending Keywords in .Com & .Net In August - The words Bank, Local, Experts, Trump, Scope. Alphabet, Fantasy, Tomorrow, Method and Teeth were the top trending keywords registered in .Com in August according to Verisign the registry for the .com and .net extensions. Alphabet is related to Google’s naming of its parent company and Trump I think you can figure that one out for yourself. Trump and Alphabet where the only two trending keywords to make the top 10 of .com and .net Before anyone goes and registers a bunch of Trump domains you might ... read more ...
 
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Trump is still trending…in .com - Trump, Alphabet were hot keywords in domain name registrations last month. At some point, Donald Trump will flame out of the presidential race. Until then, The Donald is giving .com registry Verisign a bit of a bump. For the second month in a row, “trump” made the list of Verisign’s trending keywords in .com registrations. That’s impressive since the list is created by looking at the jump the keyword made over the previous month. And if you think Verisign completely lost out on Google’s ... read more ...
Fri 4th September 2015
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Panel manners that Rightside's .Cam focus is still in a mix - String confusion objection ruling is overturned. Verisign’s successful string confusion objection against Rightside’s .cam top level domain name has been overturned. ICANN was put in a sticky situation after Verisign’s string confusion objections against two .cam applicants failed, but it prevailed against Rightside’s .cam application. The group decided to have a panel review the Rightside decision, and that panel has overturned (pdf) the original decision. As a result, the two other applicants ... read more ...
 
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Uniregistry continues to gleam in .Com Winners and Losers - Here’s how registrars fared with .com in May. Uniregistry recently announced that it crossed the million domain milestone. I’m not sure how Frank Schilling’s own domain names and North Sound new TLDs are accounted for, but the number is strong even if all of his domains in the total. For the second month in a row, Uniregistry tops the transfer gains in Verisign’s monthly report. Keep in mind that these reports are published after a three month delay. So this post is about May’s results. ... read more ...
Wed 2nd September 2015
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Web.com: Verisign did a "blatant bait-and-switch" - Company doesn’t want to provide accounting information to Verisign. Web.com is fighting back against a Verisign request for more information about how the registrar accounted for .xyz domain name registrations. Verisign is suing .XYZ for false advertising after .XYZ boasted about its registration volume — which Verisign alleges was inflated by a Network Solutions giveaway. Web.com owns Network Solutions, which gave away hundreds of thousands of .xyz domain names to its customers. At issue appears ... read more ...
Tue 1st September 2015
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Hot in August: Top 5 Stories on Domain Name Wire - A look back at the past month in the domain name biz. It’s back to school, cooler weather and domain name conference season… But before that, August was a news-making month for the domain name industry, in particular the .xyz domain name. I wrote multiple stories on some of the hotter topics, so I’ve grouped these together on the list. 1. Google is now part of Alphabet, uses ABC.xyz. This surprise announcement lifted awareness of all new top level domains. 2. Verisign v. XYZ – It was a busy ... read more ...
Mon 31st August 2015
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.XYZ seeks to boot Verisign's consultant testimony - New TLD company claims some expert testimony should not be allowed. .XYZ is asking the court to dismiss expert testimony from four expert witnesses in Verisign’s false advertising lawsuit against the new top level domain company. Some of the court filings are heavily redacted, leaving out the juicy details many in the domain name want to know. All expert witness reports were filed under seal. For example, just what kind of deal did .XYZ have with Network Solutions when the latter gave away hundreds ... read more ...
Thu 20th August 2015
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Here are a Exhibit and Witness lists for a Verisign v. XYZ trial - Lists will hit home in the domain name industry. Verisign’s lawsuit against XYZ.com, LLC and Daniel Negari continues to move forward at full speed, thanks to the “rocket docket” in U.S. District Court Eastern District of Virginia. Both parties have submitted their proposed exhibit lists and witnesses for the trial. Reviewing the exhibit lists, it’s clear that if you emailed Daniel Negari about .xyz, there’s a good chance Verisign has reviewed that email. If you wrote or commented about ... read more ...
Wed 19th August 2015
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Verisign presses Network Solutions for sum on .XYZ registrations - Company files motion to compel Network Solutions’ parent company to provide a witness. Verisign has filed a motion (pdf) in a Florida court to compel Web.com, parent company of Network Solutions, to provide a witness to testify about how the registrar accounted for free .xyz domain names. Network Solutions gave away perhaps hundreds of thousands of .xyz domain names last year. They weren’t just offered for free; They were placed in customer accounts on an opt-out basis. Verisign is suing .XYZ ... read more ...
Mon 17th August 2015
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Donuts: Verisign perplexing to intimidate, brag competitors with .XYZ lawsuit - New top level domain company issues statement after court finds in its favor. A judge in U.S. District Court in Washington state has denied Verisign’s request for reconsideration in a subpoena battle involving competitor Donuts. Donuts says Verisign is trying to intimated and bully competitors through similar subpoenas. Verisign subpoenaed Donuts as a non-party in the .com registry’s lawsuit against .XYZ and Daniel Negari. Donuts fought back, asking the court to quash the subpoena. The judge ... read more ...