Tag Archives: VeriSign

Fri 25th April 2014
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Verisign withdraws IDN focus and explains dump in .com/.net growth - Verisign cites a number of headwinds in its existing TLD business while it withdraws one of its IDN applications. Verisign held its quarterly investor conference call yesterday after releasing it first quarter earnings. The company processed 8.6 million new registrations across .com/.net, compared to 8.8 million in the same quarter a year ago. The renewal rate also dipped. Here’s what Verisign discussed on the call. Why the growth rate is shrinking Verisign blamed ... read more ...
Thu 24th April 2014
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Verisign Reports: Revenue adult 5%; There are 128.5 Million .Com & .Nets As of Mar 31 - ; VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today reported financial results for the first quarter of 2014, reporting revenue of $249 million for the first quarter of 2014, up 5% from the same quarter in 2013. Verisign reported net income of $94 million and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.64 for the first quarter of 2014, compared to net income of $85 million and diluted EPS of $0.52 in the same quarter in 2013. The operating margin was 56.1 percent for the first quarter of 2014 compared to 56.4 percent ... read more ...
 
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Verisign reports negligence .Com/.Net registrations in Q1 - New registrations and renewal rate dip. Verisign reported first quarter earnings today after the bell. The company reported revenue of $249 million, a 5% increase from the first quarter of 2013. The company added 1.28 million net new names during the first quarter to .com and .net, ending the quarter with 128.5 million active domain names in the zone. Some other metrics weren’t as rosy. Verisign processed 8.6 million new domain name registrations for .com and .net ... read more ...
Wed 9th April 2014
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Verisign: 271 million domain names registered - Universe of registered domain names slowing ticking upward. Verisign has resumed publishing its Domain Name Industry Brief, a report it used to publish quarterly. The company reports (pdf) that there were 271 million domain names registered as of December 31 across all top level domain names. That’s a 1.9% increase over the previous quarter and 7.3% for the year. This number includes free .tk domain names. The Tokelau country code domain name is the most-registered ... read more ...
Sat 22nd March 2014
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.Com Passes 113 Million Registrations - According to Verisign.com, the operator of the .Com registry the number of .Com domain names just broke the 113 Million mark for the first time. The official number at the last Verisign update was 113,002,815. According to ntldstats.com/tld the number of new gTLD registrations are over 332,000 Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Thu 20th March 2014
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Stock Analysis organisation Trefis On Verisign: Risk Is ccTLD’s; Doesn’t Mention new gTLD’s - Stock Analysis firm Trefis had some interesting comments on Verisign in a note entitled “Drop In Verisign Shares Highlights Risks Associated With Domain Business” The note went on to say that the biggest risk to the Verisign business is growth in ccTLD domain names. Trefis didn’t mention the new gTLD’s at all. It would be one thing to mention new gTLD’s and then conclude that the wouldn’t impact Verisign market share of the global domain market, but for the company not to even mention ... read more ...
Mon 17th March 2014
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Verisign Issues Statement On ICANN’s Move & Is Down Over 5% In Pre-market - VeriSign, Inc. VRSN today provided a statement on the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) announcement of its intent to transition key Internet domain name functions. Verisign shares are down over 5% in pre-market activity trading at just over $52 a share. Here is Verisign’s announcement: “”The announcement by NTIA on Friday, March 14, 2014, does not affect Verisign’s operation of the .com and .net registries. The announcement does not impact Verisign’s ... read more ...
 
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Verisign tells markets NTIA news doesn’t impact the .com agreement while batch drops - Verisign points out that NTIA announcement has nothing to do with .com, but at least one analyst has downgraded the stock due to uncertainty. Verisign issued a press release this morning reminding investors that Friday’s big news about the U.S. government transitioning internet responsibilities does not affect its lucrative contract to run the .com domain name registry. Verisign shares were down about 6% in the first few minutes of trading today. Last Friday National ... read more ...
Thu 27th February 2014
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Verisign Answers ICANN’s Name Collision Study With Its Own Blog Post - The report “centers on the technique of “controlled interruption,” initially described in a public preview shared by Jeff Schmidt last month.” “With that technique, domain names that are currently on one of ICANN’s second-level domain (SLD) block lists can be registered and delegated for regular use, provided that they first go through a trial period where they’re mapped to a designated “test” address.  ” “The staged introduction of new SLDs is intended to provide operators ... read more ...
Wed 19th February 2014
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Verisign gets obvious for Recovery of a Failed Registry - Verisign adds to patent war chest. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted Verisign patent number 8,656,209 for “Recovery of a Failed Registry”. I wrote about the patent application in 2012. Verisign describes the system as one that “enables a registry recovery service to retrieve zone files from a target registry, archive the zone files, publish the zone files to a managed DNS server, reconcile ownership of the zone files, and publish the zone files ... read more ...
Sat 8th February 2014
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Verisign Is Not Being Transparent on Their Policy With Regards to Short .TV Domains - Back in December Mike wrote about how GM.tv and 13.tv were being held back and reserved by Verisign. At the time Verisign said they were holding these back for promotional purposes. In the past Verisign did this with a few other short .tv domains like G.tv. Domain Name: G.TV Domain ID: 97041820 Updated Date: 2012-05-10T18:50:28Z Creation Date: 2011-05-27T04:01:07Z Expiration Date: 2021-05-27T04:01:07Z Sponsoring Registrar: .TV RESERVED DOMAINS Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 9998 Domain Status: SERVER-UPDATE-PROHIBITED Name Server: No nameserver DNSSEC: Unsigned delegation So ... read more ...
Fri 7th February 2014
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Verisign CEO: “I Don’t See Anybody Who’s Going to Abandon The .Com For a New gTLD - The CEO and President of Verisign James Bidzos had some pretty interesting comments regarding the new gTLD’s and the effect they may have on .com and .net registrations during its earnings call today. I have listened to the last several Verisign earnings call and this is the first time I can remember an analyst asking a pointed question about the new gTLD’s and their effect on the .com and .net registry. The question was asked by JP Morgan Chase Co: Any thought to whether the gTLD program, whether ... read more ...
 
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Verisign: we’re not fearful of new TLDs, and IDN transliterations will be delayed - A defense of .com’s staying power and bad news for IDN.com investors. On its investor conference call yesterday afternoon, Verisign CEO James Bidzos explained why he isn’t afraid of new top level domain names. Also, in a blow to IDN.com investors, the company said it will take a longer for them to hit the market than many are hoping for. New TLDs? We’re not afraid of those! Despite Verisign’s never-ending tactics to delay new top level domain names, Bidzos ... read more ...
Thu 6th February 2014
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Versign Reports: 127.2 Million .Com/.Net Domains, Revenue adult 10%; Has $1.7 Billion In Bank & - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ :VRSN ) reported financial results for the fourth quarter of 2013 and year ended Dec. 31, 2013. VeriSign, Inc. and subsidiaries (“Verisign”) reported revenue of $246 million for the fourth quarter of 2013, up 7% from the same quarter in 2012. The operating margin was 53% for the fourth quarter of 2013 compared to 58.8% for the same quarter in 2012. Verisign reported net income of $292 million and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $1.94 for the fourth quarter of 2013, ... read more ...
Thu 23rd January 2014
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Verisign: Rise In Value Of Bitcoin Causes Surge In .Com/.Net Domain Registrations: 22K In 2013 - Verisign just published a blog on how the rising value of Bitcoin has led  to surge of .com and .net domain name registrations.   The value of a Bitcoin surged from roughly $13 at the beginning of 2013 to an eventual high of $1,137 at the end of November (The chart below, courtesy of Coinbase, documents the ebbs and flows of a Bitcoin’s value).       By doing a search of the word “bitcoin” for the past six months, it is fairly easy to see a correlation between the two Bitcoin price surges ... read more ...
Thu 16th January 2014
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Verisign: .Com Registrations Blow Past 112 Million Mark For The 1st Time - Verisign is reporting that the number of .Com domain names in the active zone file exceeded the 112,000,000 Mark for the first time. The number of .com domain name registrations in the active zone crossed the 112 Million number today January 16th, 2014 The number of .net domain names in the active zone file is down slightly but still well over the 15 million domain name mark.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Mon 6th January 2014
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Verisign files obvious focus for automatically formulating Whois use for TLDs - Verisign wants to patent a way to scale creation of whois service for top level domain names. Verisign has filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office related to automatically creating Whois for new top level domain names. The application, 13/746579 (pdf), was filed in January 2013 and published last week. It describes a typical whois system, and then explains that creating whois for a provisioned top level domain name does not scale: With ... read more ...
Fri 27th December 2013
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Verisign Is Taking Back Expired Two Letter & Two Number .TV Domains - Verisign the registry for the .TV registry is apparently taking back any expired new Two letter (LL.TV) .TV domain names as well as any two numbered (NNTV) domain names. Recently a domainer that had a back order on a two letter .Tv domain and a two numbered domain received this notice from Verisign: “Thank you for contacting Verisign Support. I reached out to our Operations team to determine where they were in their investigation. They have a resolution for the issue prepared. However, the business ... read more ...
Tue 10th December 2013
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Verisign loses new TLD conflict opposite .brand applicant M-NET - Verisign loses another string confusion challenge. Verisign, the registry for .net domain names, has lost a string confusion objection it brought against M-Net and its application for the top level domain .mnet. M-Net is a pay-TV channel in South Africa. It applied for .mnet as a closed .brand domain name, and the closed nature weighed heavily in the panelist’s decision. Verisign tried to argue that M-Net could change its business model in the future, and this could ... read more ...
 
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Verisign is contrast reduce .com prices on deleted domain names - .Com registry offers $2 discount on deleting domain names. Verisign is testing lower wholesale prices for deleting .com domain names later this month. From December 15-31, registrars will be able to register .com domain names on the day they delete for $5.85. Regular wholesale pricing is $7.85 per year. The domain names must be registered before midnight on the day they are deleted. They must be registered through the auto batch pool, which is a secondary registry-registrar ... read more ...
Fri 6th December 2013
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How did Verisign accommodate the 100% SLA on .com Whois in June? - Despite Whois problems in June, Verisign reported meeting its SLA for .com. Each month Verisign and the other domain name registries submit reports to ICANN that include their uptime and performance numbers. One of the Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for Verisign’s .com contract is 100% uptime for Whois. While reviewing recent registry reports this week I was surprised to see that Verisign reported it met its 100% SLA in June. You may recall that Verisign had ... read more ...
Thu 21st November 2013
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Verisign Publishes Last Part Of Series On Possible Domain Collision: “SLD Blocking Is Too Risky Without TLD Rollback” - Verisign Published its final part of its 4 part series on domain collision and the new gTLD program entitled  “SLD Blocking Is Too Risky Without TLD Rollback”on the final day of the ICANN Meeting in Argentina. Here it is: “ICANN’s second level domain (SLD) blocking proposal includes a provision that a party may demonstrate that an SLD not in the initial sample set could cause “severe harm,” and that SLD can potentially be blocked for a certain period of time. The extent to which that ... read more ...
 
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CM.com was deleted and is unregistered…but we can’t have it - CM.com was deleted this year, but is unavailable for registration. If you pop on over to DomainTools and type in the domain name CM.com, you might be surprised to see that it is not registered: But when you visit your domain name registrar, you’ll find out the domain isn’t available for registration. Despite being registered from 1997 until at least the middle of 2013, CM.com has been sent to purgatory. The domain name was apparently deleted by the registrar ... read more ...
Fri 15th November 2013
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265 Million Domains: We Asked What Happened To The Verisign Report & Tonight Verisign Answered With The Numbers - Earlier today we asked what happened to the Verisign Quarterly  Domain Name Industry Brief that has been missing for 2013 and tonight Verisign answered us. In in a post on the company blog Verisign releasing an series of three infographics showing that current worldwide domain name registrations sit at 265 Million domains as of the end of the 3rd quarter of 2013, up from 252 million reported by Verisign as of December 31, 2012.” In the blog post Verisign writes: “Today Verisign announced that ... read more ...
 
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What Happened To Verisign’s Quarterly Domain Name Industry Report? -   Verisign which had been releasing a quarterly report on the domain name industry seems to be  Missing in Action. The last Domain Name Industry Report was  published for the quarter ending December 31, 2012. Verisign had been issuing quarterly reports containing the number of total domain names registrations with a break down ccTLD’s has been a no show in 2013. Verisign’s last quarterly report it issued was for December 2012 showed 252 million domain names registered  worldwide. As you ... read more ...