Tag Archives: VeriSign

Mon 4th May 2015
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Here Are The Winners Of $5K For The 2nd Month #Internetofficial Verisign .Com Contest - Verisign announced today the winners of the 2nd month of the Verisign .Com contest and has awarded $5,000 in prizes. KidsCookDinner.com Registered March 26th 2015 is an active site already a website is blog that encouraging kids to cook and eat healthy dinners. LastSecondFlights.com was registered February 3, 2015. SeniorBride.com was registered on March 1, 2015 SkinnyLa.com was registered on March 5th 2015 SoldiersOnly.COM was registered on January 28,2015 Unfortunately as one of the judges of ... read more ...
Thu 23rd April 2015
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Verisign Reports: Revenue adult 4%; .Com/.Net Increase 3.1%: Has $1.9 Billion In The Bank - VeriSign, Inc. (VRSN), today reported financial results for the first quarter of 2015 after the market closed. Verisign Registry Services added 1.51 million net new names during the first quarter, ending with 133.0 million .com and .net domain names in the domain name base, which represents a 3.1% increase over the base at the end of the first quarter in 2014, as calculated including domain names on hold for both periods. In the first quarter, Verisign processed 8.7 million new domain name registrations ... read more ...
 
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Verisign reports earnings, 1.51 million net adds - Company reports continued growth in domain name registrations and base. Verisign reported first quarter earnings after the bell today, including some fairly solid numbers for new registrations and net additions in .com/.net. 8.7 million new .com and .net registrations occurred in the first quarter, up from 8.6 million in the same quarter last year. It’s not a big jump, but it’s headed in the right direction. That netted out to 1.51 million more names after accounting for deletions. Revenue for ... read more ...
Fri 17th April 2015
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The story of Verisign's Internet Official competition winners - Verisign contest hits its goal in first round. Verisign’s first five winners fit its message perfectly.Verisign has announced the first five winners in its Internet Official contest, a promotion designed to show that good .com domain names are still available. The domain names selected have interesting histories. The first five winners, who will each pick up $5,000, are: 1. ChooseYourTattoo.com: Registered by Tom H. of Niles, Mich. 2. ElectricMotorcycleClub.com: Registered by Adam Y. H. of Pine ... read more ...
Wed 15th April 2015
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Verisign Announces First Round of #InternetOfficial Contest First Prize Winners - Verisign announced its first group of winners in its #InternetOfficial Contest. Our own Michael Berkens is one of the judges in this contest. Our illustrious panel of top industry experts and celebrity judges has determined the five best .COM domain names entered into the #InternetOfficial contest during the first monthly entry period. (Drum roll please)…And the winners are: 1. chooseyourtattoo.com: Registered by Tom H. of Niles, Mich. 2. electricmotorcycleclub.com: Registered by Adam Y. H. of ... read more ...
Thu 12th March 2015
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Verisign Report: There are Now 288 Million Registered Domains As Of Dec 31 - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today announced that 4 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 288 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of Dec. 31, 2014 in the domain industry report. The increase of four million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 1.3 % over the third quarter of 2014. Worldwide registrations have grown by 16.9 million, or 6.2%, year over year. The .com ... read more ...
Mon 9th March 2015
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.Com's biggest winners and losers - Uniregistry wins and Moniker loses when it comes to .com domain name transfers in November. ICANN has published the most recent monthly report from ICANN showing .com transfer wins and losses from November. Uniregistry had the biggest net inflow of transfers for a public registrar, while Moniker had the biggest net outflow. As bad as the number was for Moniker (23,847 lost to only 3,136 gained), it wasn’t as bad as its October outflow. Here are the top 5 winners*, measured by net transfers-in (transfer ... read more ...
Wed 11th February 2015
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Top 10 Keywords Registered .Com & .Net In January -

Verisign a registry for .Com and .Netpublished a tip 10 keywords purebred in .COM and .NET. for a month of January

Here are a trending registrations from January:

 

 

 

Via: thedomains.com

Tue 10th February 2015
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Glitter & Hemp among final month's prohibited .com domain names - Throw some glitter and order some hemp oil. That’s what domain name registrants did last month. Verisign has started a monthly feature of the top 10 “trending” keywords used in new .com and .net domain name registrations. The trending keywords are calculated based on the biggest growth in that keyword in new registrations, thus avoiding having “online” be the number one keyword each month. Last month’s trending .com’s include glitter because of ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.com getting lots ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Names Lori Greiner of QVC/Shark Tank & Bill Rancic Winner of Apprentice As Celeb Judges: #InternetOfficial - Verisign named its two celebrity judges for its #InternetOfficial contest in celebration of the 30th anniversary of .Com. The “Queen of QVC” Lori Greiner  and one of the stars of Shark Tank, joins Panel of Judges for the #InternetOfficial Contest along with Bill Rancic, who amoung his accomplishments was the winner of the first season of NBC’s “The Apprentice. These two celebrities join myself, Steve Manning, naming expert and CEO of naming firm Igor and Anita Campbell, is the Founder, ... read more ...
Sat 7th February 2015
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.Com Top 116 Million Active Domain Names For The 1st Time & Is Up 600K Registrations Since Dec 31 - The number of active .Com domain names has passed the 116 million mark for the firs time in history. At the end of 2014 there were 15.3 million .Com domain registered in the active zone file, meaning that .Com registrations have increase 600,000 domain names in the first 5 weeks of 2015. The number of new gTLD’s is stilling at 4,288,778 according to ntldstats.com up from the 3,650,000 new gTLD domain names registered at the end of 2014, which appears to be a gain of almost 600,000 domain registrations However ... read more ...
Fri 6th February 2015
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How is .Com? Verisign discusses, and signs 11 IDN contracts - Verisign signs transliteration TLD contracts, discusses the state of .com. There was a lot of interesting information in yesterday’s Verisign quarterly investor conference call. First, the company said it signed 11 contracts for its IDN transliterations of .com and .net, meaning that investors of IDN.com domain names might be close to getting their hands on IDN.com-as-IDN domains. I say might because Verisign isn’t willing to put a date on it and hinted that the end is not near. The company ... read more ...
Thu 5th February 2015
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8.2 million .com/.net registrations in Q4 - Verisign reports Q4 results. Verisign reported earnings for the 4th quarter of 2014 today. 8.2 million .com/.net domain names were registered in the quarter, the same as in the 4th quarter of 2013. When you take out deletions, the combined zones grew by 0.59 million names in the quarter. In the 3rd quarter of 2014, Verisign handled 8.7 million new registrations. The 4th quarter was obviously down from that, but the 3rd quarter was a record one for it. Verisign ended the year with 130.6 million .com ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Reports: Revenue adult 4.7%; Profit Margin 55.9% & $1.4 Billion In The Bank - VeriSign, Inc. (VRSN), today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2014. Fourth Quarter GAAP Financial Results VeriSign, Inc. and subsidiaries (“Verisign”) reported revenue of $256 million for the fourth quarter of 2014, up 4.2% from the same quarter in 2013. Verisign reported net income of $65 million and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.48 for the fourth quarter of 2014, compared to net income of $292 million and diluted EPS of $1.94 in the same quarter in ... read more ...
Wed 4th February 2015
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Meet Two More Judges Of The Verisign 30th Anniversary Contest #internetofficial - Last week I was introduced as one of three judges for the contest Verisign the .Com Registry is running to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of .Com in which they are giving away over $100,000 in cash. Over the last couple of days Verisign announced two other judges (celebrity judge still to be announced) and though I would publish their information so you can see who will be judging the contest By the way you can enter the contest here. Best of luck to everyone. As I mentioned I’m the only judge ... read more ...
Mon 26th January 2015
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To Celebrate The 30th Anniversary Of .Com Verisign Is Giving Away Over $100K In Cash Prizes - 2015 marks the 30th anniversary of .Com and I’m proud have been asked to  judge Verisign’s  #InternetOfficial .Com Domain Name Contest which will be awarding over $100,000 in cash prizes. Here are some details: Make your idea #InternetOfficial. Come up with the most descriptive, memorable and original .COM domain name(s) you can imagine—and register it! Submit your registered .COM domain name(s) with a brief explanation of why yours is the greatest thing since sliced e-bread Here is where ... read more ...
Thu 22nd January 2015
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Verisign Reports 3Q 2014 Closed With 284 Million Domains Up 6.8% - Verisign issued its Domain Name Industry Brief for the Third Quarter of 2014. The third quarter of 2014 closed with a base of 284 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of four million domain names, or 1.6% over the second quarter of 2014. Registrations have grown by 18.1 million, or 6.8 percent, year over year. The base of country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) was 132.1 million domain names, a 2.5% increase quarter over quarter, and a 10.7% increase ... read more ...
Wed 21st January 2015
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The furious story about how a domain name CM.com was only registered - Verisign just allowed the reserved domain name CM.com to be registered. Here’s why. In 2013, the longtime registrant of CM.com lost his domain name. The domain name had been registered to Satoshi Shimoshita since 2004. Yet the domain name was deleted following a period in which the nameservers for the domain name pointed to NS1.SPAMSHUTDOWN.COM. That a registrar forcefully deleted an extremely valuable domain name not coming up for renewal is rather odd. But the story of CM.com has become even ... read more ...
Fri 2nd January 2015
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.Net’s Fall Below 15 Million Registrations - The number of domain names in the .Net zone file fell below 15 Million as of the last update by Verisign There are now officially 14,998,816 .Net domain registered. .Net first passed the 15 million mark in August 2013. At the end of the first quarter of 2014 (March 31st 2014) there were around 15.2 million registrations according to Verisign. However the reduction in .Net domains which were generally regarded with .Org as the new best choice to a .Com was expected with the launched of hundred of ... read more ...
Tue 23rd December 2014
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Verisign Asks What’s Really New in a New gTLD Space? 16% Of New gTLD’s Are Not Registered In .Com - Verisign published a post on its blog yesterday entitled “What’s Really New in the New gTLD Space” which was written by Andy Simpson The piece has some interesting stats and other information that are worth a look in the continuing .Com Vs. New gTLD debate that has been raging on CircleId in the past couple of weeks. Like all stats you can interpret them many ways. I think the most interesting stats contained in the post is that 16% (a little less than 500K domains names) of domain names registered ... read more ...
Thu 4th December 2014
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Verisign Asks: Are Domain Name Registrations An Indication Of The Value of Bitcoin? - Can the value of Bitcoin be predicted by looking at the number of  domain names registrations containing the term “Bitcoin”? In its blog post entitled  “Domain Registrations: Is Bitcoin Going Mainstream” Verisign says: “Earlier this year we used Bitcoin as an example of how domain registrations could be an effective gauge of interest in a particular subject. Our analysis demonstrated a clear rise in the number of registered .com and .net domain names containing the term “Bitcoin” ... read more ...
Tue 2nd December 2014
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Verisign: There Are Now 280 Million Domain Names; Up Over 7.2% From Last Year - Verisign published its Domain Industry Brief for the second quarter of 2014. As of June 30, 2014 there are now over 280 Million domain names across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of four million domain names, or 1.4% over the first quarter of 2014. Registrations have grown by 18.6 million, or 7.2 percent, year over year. The base of country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) was 129.3 million domain names, a 1.7% increase quarter over quarter, and an 11.5% increase year over year. The .com ... read more ...
 
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Can Verisign Maintain Its Leadership Moving Forward ? - Trefis is a financial analysis site, they describe themselves as an interactive financial community structured around trends, forecasts and insights related to some of the most popular stocks in the US.  They wrote about Verisign yesterday and whether or not they can maintain their growth. They note that .com has built such a niche that it has been able to stand the test of competition, in their estimation .net is not and they believe the new gtld program has affected .net in a negative way. From ... read more ...
Thu 13th November 2014
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IDN.com owners will remove large if Verisign doesn’t get the way - They could be forced to buy transliterations within a limited time period. Verisign has been negotiating its contracts for transliterations of .com for a long time, and last week we got an idea about what the hold up is. ICM Registry, the domain registry for .xxx and the forthcoming .adult, .porn and .sex top level domains, announced that it finally inked contracts with ICANN for new TLDs. The catch is that ICM had to change how it handled its Domain Matching program. ICM ... read more ...
Fri 7th November 2014
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.Com Domain Name Registrations Top 115 Million For The 1st Time - According to Verisign’s zone file the number of .Com domain name registrations have topped 115 million, an all time high. As we have written the new gTLD program does not seem to be effecting the number of .Com registrations. Back just 7 weeks ago on September 19, we posted that the number of .com registrations had crossed the 114.6 million domain mark. Today in crossing the 115 million mark,  .com added over 600,000 domain name registrations in just 7 weeks. As of March 31, 2014 Verisign reported ... read more ...