Tag Archives: VeriSign

Thu 30th October 2014
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“Creepy” .Com videos get 600k watches, here are 2 some-more [Watch] - If you thought “Fish on a Bus” was weird, wait until you see “Bee in a Bar”. Last week Verisign released videos under its new marketing campaign “Make Your Idea Internet Official”. The videos have been described in a number of ways, with “creepy” being one of them. Yeah, “Fish on a Bus” is certainly creepy. Both videos have soared to 300,000 views on YouTube. I have no idea how Verisign is promoting these videos and if it is buying views. But ... read more ...
Tue 28th October 2014
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Forbes: Verisign Becomes #1 Most Shorted Stock in S&P 500 - According to Forbes.com, Verisign Inc (NASD: VRSN) is now Most Shorted Stock in SP 500 based on most recent short interest data has been released by the NASDAQ for the 10.15.2014 settlement date. According to nasdaq.com there are 19,441,435 shares of Verisign Stock being shorted as of 10.15.14 but more shares have been shorted in the past. 24,641,765 of Verisign were shorted back on December 31,  2013 and 23,218,994 back on March 31, 2014. There are about 125 Million shares of Verisign outstanding, ... read more ...
Fri 24th October 2014
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Why .com had a good entertain (and .net didn’t ) - Thank the Chinese and discount pricing for continued demand for .com domain names. Verisign handled 8.7 million new registrations in .com and .net in the third quarter this year, the most ever in a third quarter. That amounted to 1.15 million domain names added to the namespace. The addition was basically all in .com, as .net continued a flat/slow decline. So why did .com do so well? And why did .net flounder? Here’s Verisign’s viewpoint, gleaned from its Verisign’s ... read more ...
Thu 23rd October 2014
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Verisign Reports: .Com/Net Over 130 Million Domains; Revenue Up 4.7%; $1.5 Billion In The Bank - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported its results for the third quarter of 2014, reporting revenue of $255 millionup 4.7% from the same quarter in 2013. Verisign reported net income of $95 million and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.69 for the third quarter of 2014, compared to net income of $81 million and diluted EPS of $0.53 in the same quarter in 2013. The operating margin was 54.7 percent for the third quarter of 2014 compared to 54.5 percent for the same quarter in 2013. Financial Highlights Verisign ... read more ...
 
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.Com rebound: Verisign adds 1.15 million domain names to strike 130.0 million - After slow second quarter, Verisign returns to health growth in net-adds in third quarter. Verisign just reported third quarter earnings, and it appears to have been a pretty good quarter in terms of .com and .net registrations compared to the previous quarter. The registration base for .com and .net increased by 1.15 million domain names to reach 130.0 million. That’s a nice rebound from the second quarter, when Verisign added just 0.42 million registrations to ... read more ...
 
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Bad news for IDN.com investors - Verisign still negotiating with ICANN over .com transliteration domain names. Owners of IDN.com domain names that are patiently waiting for .com transliterations are going to have to keep waiting. In an SEC filing today, and on its investor conference call, Verisign said it has received an extension to the deadline for negotiating its contracts for these domains with ICANN. The new deadline is December 31. The company would not disclose the specific terms of the contract ... read more ...
Wed 22nd October 2014
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Verisign Launches “Eureka” Campaign To Promote .Com/.Net Domains; Here a 1st Video - Verisign, the registry operator for .com, .net  announced today it was launching a new campaign to promote .Com and .Net domain names including a series of “”short, humorous videos this month” “As any aspiring entrepreneur knows, great business ideas can come from anywhere, at any time. The Verisign video spots are part of a new online campaign featuring that “eureka” moment that comes with an idea, creatively dramatized by a big, fuzzy mascot, and lets the viewer know his or her next ... read more ...
 
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Verisign’s new videos: Make your Idea Official [watch] - Clever video series promotes registering a domain name as the first step in a business idea. Verisign released a couple videos today as part of its “Make your Idea Official” campaign. The videos remind me a bit of more recent humorous ads from GoDaddy. Although the videos promote .com and .net, they’re good overall for promoting domain name registration. In the first video, a guy see’s some other dude moving in on his “idea” at a club: The second one ... read more ...
Sat 18th October 2014
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Verisign To Be The Premier Sponsor At TRAFFIC - According to an announcement out today, Verisign (Nasdaq-VSRN) the registry for .Com, .Net and .Tv will be the Premier Sponsor of T.R.A.F.F.I.C. 2014 conference which will be held at the Fontainebleau Hotel, October 30- November 2. Verisign will host the biggest Welcome Party since 2004 on Thursday, October 30th at the LaCote Restaurant overlooking beautiful Miami Beach. La Cote was named Miami’s Best Poolside Dining Spot by the Miami New Times and has earned the Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence “Sparkling ... read more ...
Thu 2nd October 2014
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As Many As 5K .Com’s Taken Away By Sealed Court Order By Verisign Including Some Of Mine - Overnight I received a notice that several domain names I owned were transferred by a sealed court from Verisign without notice and of course without the court order. The domain names just were transferred by Verisign to another domain and are now listed for sale at another marketplace. Another domainer sent me an identical notice he received overnight on domain names he owned. The Domain names are now all owned by COURT APPOINTED RECEIVER – ROBERT OLEA and have been moved to Uniregisty as the ... read more ...
Wed 24th September 2014
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Is Verisign’s devise for a standards organisation partial of the obvious play? - Company’s CEO disclosed creating an industry group as part of monetizing its patent portfolio. Verisign recently announced plans to organize a group called Registration Operations Association (ROA) to discuss technical aspects of domain name registration. A three part blog series proposing the group, penned by Verisign Senior Director Scott Hollenbeck, focuses on Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) and the challenges of registrars working with different EPP extensions ... read more ...
Sun 21st September 2014
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Verisign Ranked #1 By Z-Score Which Predicts Companies Heading Into Serious Financial Distress” - USA Today.com, just covered something called The Altman Z-Score ” a financial indicator that predicts when companies are careening toward serious financial distress, which the article says  is commonly used by investment professionals. “The Z-Score is a single number that summarizes the financial strength of companies in five dimensions. ” “The Z-Score examines companies by sizing up working capital, retained earnings, earnings before interest and taxes to total assets and sales to total ... read more ...
Thu 4th September 2014
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Trefis Research Says Verisign & .Com.Net Market Share Is At Risk From ccTLD’s - In an article from Trefis a stock analysis firm on Verisign out today cites ccTLD’s not new gTLD’s as the biggest threat to Verisign. “For the six months so far into fiscal year 2014, VeriSign reported revenues of approximately $499 million vs. $476 million during a similar period in 2013, indicating a 5% growth in its top line. Comparatively, sales growth from H1’12 to H1’13 was over 10%. The rapid slowdown in sales growth was partially affected by a surge in demand for country code top-level ... read more ...
Thu 14th August 2014
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For The 1st Time, There Are More Than 114 Million .Com Domain Names Registered - According to Verisign, (VRSN) which operates the .Com and .Net registry,  the number of .Com domain names passed the 114 Million mark for the first time in history today. The number of .Com domain names according to the Verisign Daily Zone Count is 114,017,341. Just a few days ago Verisign published the Domain Industry Brief for the 1st Quarter of 2014. According to the report, as of March 31, Verisign reported there were 113.2 Million registered .Com domain names. So the number of registered .Com ... read more ...
Wed 13th August 2014
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Verisign: Only 3% of New gTLD Domain Names Are Resolving To Business Websites - Verisign issued a report on new gTLD registrations through June 29, 2014, finding that 41% of all new gTLD registrations are parked and only 3% of New gTLD Domain Names Are resolving to Business Websites. Of course Verisign operates the .com and .net registries and have a lot  to lose in the new gTLD world, yet the numbers are the numbers. The report entitled Website Usage Analysis in the New gTLDs: “We thought it would be an interesting exercise to extend similar analysis to the new gTLD market. ... read more ...
 
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Verisign: 3% of new TLD registrations enclose business websites - Parked domains make up the bulk of new TLD registrations. Verisign analyzed registrations of new top level domain names to determine how second level registrations under these new domain names are being used. The analysis determined that just 3% of domains registered so far are being used for a “business website” and the majority of domains are parked: The breakdown is much more nuanced than what the company presents about its own TLDs, .net and .com. When it ... read more ...
Mon 11th August 2014
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Verisign’s Domain Industry Brief: There are 276 Million Domain Names As Of End Of 1st Q - Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN), today published its Domain Name Industry Brief for the first quarter of 2014, and five million domain names were added to the Internet in the first quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 276 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of March 31, 2014. The increase of five million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 1.7% over the fourth quarter of 2013. Worldwide registrations have grew by 19.3 million, or 7.5%, ... read more ...
 
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Verisign: Internet grew by 5 million domain names in Q1 - Domain Name Industry Brief shows continued growth of registered domain names. Verisign released its Domain Name Industry Brief (pdf) today , estimating that the total base of registered domain names grew by 5 million to 276 million in Q1 this year. (Yes, that’s Q1 — not the most recently concluded quarter.) That’s 1.7% more than at the end of Q4, and 7.5% growth year-over-year. The base of country code domain names grew at a faster clip than gTLDs, with a 2.9% ... read more ...
Sun 10th August 2014
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A good snyopsis of Verisign’s corner contract - Investor does a pretty good job explaining how Verisign has a license to print money. Verisign has a wonderful license to print money. Its contract with ICANN to run .com allows it to charge $7.85 per .com domain name registered. The company enjoys fat 55% operating margins as a result. Stephen Pomeroy of Pomeroy Capital Partners, L.P. recently sent a letter to his limited partners about Verisign (of which his fund is a stockholder) and published it on SeekingAlpha. The ... read more ...
Fri 25th July 2014
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Verisign batch jumps after gain report - Stock investors still think .com is king. Verisign reported earnings yesterday and shares in the company are up 12% in trading so far today. Why the jump in share price after a dismal quarter for net domain name adds? Well, Citigroup upgraded the company from sell to neutral today saying “fundamentals have likely bottomed”. Financials apparently exceeded most expectations. Verisign had just 0.42 million net adds in .com and .net last quarter. It expects Q3 net ... read more ...
Thu 24th July 2014
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Verisign Goes Rogue: New gTLD’s: “Registration Numbers on Par With .Co” & .Net is Like One - During ts earnings call today Verisign (VRSN) brushed away the new gTLD’s saying “Gross registrations for new gTLD’s are at 1.6 million which puts them on Par with .Co” Ouch Verisign’s Representative went further to say that no one should build a conclusion on the new gTLD program until we go through a re-billing cycle (which we happen to Agree with) “I think what you saw in the second quarter is a lot of confusion in domains including new gTLD’s in both the singular and plural of the ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Reports: 128.9 Million .Com/.Net Domains; 57.2% Profit Margin & $1.5 Billion In a Bank - VeriSign, Inc. (VRSN), the registry for .Com and .Net reported its financial results for the second quarter of 2014 after the market closed today and lets face it .com and net growth are basically stalled. VeriSign, Inc. reported revenue of $250 million for the second quarter of 2014, up 4.6% from the same quarter in 2013. Verisign reported net income of $100 million and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.71 for the second quarter of 2014, compared to net income of $87 million and diluted ... read more ...
 
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Verisign reports negligence growth, hikes .Net prices 10% - .Com base inches forward, .Net prices are increasing. Verisign reported earnings after the bell today, and the results for .com/.net aren’t that promising. It gets harder to grow something as it gets bigger, but net adds across these two domain names slowed by quite a bit. Verisign reported just 0.42 million net new ads during the second quarter. Last year in the same quarter it added 1.2 million domain names. The good news for Verisign is that new registrations ... read more ...
Fri 27th June 2014
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Verisign Downgraded By Wells Fargo: Growth Is Slowing Due To New gTLD’s & Could Get Worse - TheStreet.com is reporting that Wells Fargo analyst Gray Powell downgraded Verisign (VRSN) today writing: VeriSign’s domain name growth appears to be falling a bit lower than the midpoint of second quarter expectations and competition from new gTLDs could be influencing overall growth to some degree. “The company is tracking toward about 400K domain name additions in the upcoming quarter, which is lower than the 550K guidance midpoint, said the analyst, citing ICANN zone files.” “The analyst ... read more ...
Thu 19th June 2014
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Shocking: Verisign Backed Study Shows 80% Of Small Businesses Prefer .Com over New gTLD’s -                                                                   The results of a survey of small- and medium-sized (SMB) business owners which already conduct business online, was released today by SCORE and Verisign, the registry of the .Com and .Net registries. An inforgraphic was also published which appears above. Unlike almost study I have read, I cannot find in any of the material how many SMB participated in the study,  how the study was conducted and what ... read more ...