Tag Archives: VeriSign

Thu 25th July 2013
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Verisign announces another .net cost hike - 25 days after prices went up, Verisign announces another price increase. The wholesale registry fee for .net domain names just increased from $5.11 to $5.62 on July 1. Today, Verisign announced another price hike that will increase the price to $6.18. The increase will go into effect on February 1, 2014 following a six month waiting period. Verisign has the contractual right to increase the fees for .net domain name registrations by up to 10% each year during the ... read more ...
Tue 16th July 2013
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Verisign downgrades sponsorship of ICANN meetings - After peaking in 2011 meeting, Verisign’s sponsorship of ICANN meetings has steadily dropped. Thinks there’s a lot of bad blood between Verisign and ICANN right now? That may be why Verisign isn’t sponsoring the Durban meeting at as high of a level as it has sponsored previous meetings. The Durban meeting offers six sponsorship levels, ranging from Bronze ($7,500) to Diamond ($250,000). For this meeting, Verisign sponsored at the $15,000 Silver level. Let’s ... read more ...
Sun 14th July 2013
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Verisign reconfirms IDN transliteration plans, provides some-more details - Verisign provides some details on how it will allocate top level domain transliterations. Have you ever invested a lot of money in something without a written contract? It can be a bit nerve racking, and occasionally you can feel like you got burned. That’s why internationalized domain name (IDN) investors are feeling a better after Verisign provided more details about its plans for transliterations of .net and .com domain names. At a high level, there’s nothing ... read more ...
Fri 5th July 2013
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Verisign files patents for a Domain Manager and preventing antagonistic domain registrations - Company that is looking to assert its patents files two more applications. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published to patent applications yesterday that were filed by Verisign. Both applications were filed in 2011. Application 13/339466 (pdf) is titled “Methods and Systems for Creating New Domains”: Systems and methods for creating a new domain, such as a top-level domain or a second-level domain, make use of a Domain Manager that enables a user to enter ... read more ...
Thu 20th June 2013
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ICANN explains because it didn’t tell Verisign’s letters - Group it doesn’t usually publish counsel-to-counsel letters. Verisign sent several letters to ICANN earlier this year highlighting concerns about the new registry agreement. ICANN never posted those letters, and they only came to light when Verisign posted a message in a comment period. Verisign said there was lack of transparency in ICANN’s correspondence posting policies, and that “we are left to conclude that ICANN posts only those letters it believes will ... read more ...
Sun 16th June 2013
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Verisign Launches Find Your Custom Domain Tool/App: Domaininspiration.com - Verisign released a new Tool called the Custom Domain Tool at Domaininspiration.com to help people find the perfect unregistered domain name. The site preference is for you to log in with your Facebook account and then randomly generates domain names to match your profile however you can sign up with it using your email address as well. In my case the Tool “randomly generated 209 domains based on your profile”. The results seem to be geared to domain names my last name, my company my sports interests ... read more ...
Wed 5th June 2013
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A pointed (yet big) change in GoDaddy’s ads - Verisign paying to include .com in GoDaddy ad. I was watching the Cardinals game last night when I noticed ads for GoDaddy.com behind the batter. This is nothing new. GoDaddy frequently advertises on baseball broadcasts. But something about the ad looked different. Take a look. Can’t see the difference? Here’s a close-up. We already know that GoDaddy is rebranding by dropping .com from its name. But this ad not only drops the .com from the original GoDaddy.com ... read more ...
Sun 2nd June 2013
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Verisign whois secretly returning “no match” results - Have to submit query twice to get correct result on Verisign’s whois. Verisign’s whois service for .com and .net is sometimes falsely returning a result of “no match” the initial time you search for a domain name. For example, if you search for DNW.com on Verisign’s site or via port 43 whois, you’ll get a “no match” result the first time. Click “search” a second time and the correct whois will be returned. You can see example screenshots on the ... read more ...
Fri 31st May 2013
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Verisign: ICANN Needs To Put Early Warning System In Place Not To Break Root - In the second  part 2 of a 5 part series of articles released by Verisign on its blog was written by Danny McPherson on the possible dangers of the impending rollout of the new gTLD program. Basically this post  chats about the DNS system, the root servers and the fact that the delegation of 1,000 new gTLD every year is a huge increase from what has been minimal growth over the years and urges ICANN to put into place an “early warning system …..to ensure that we have a well vetted “brakes” ... read more ...
Thu 23rd May 2013
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Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Now Owns Over 5% Of Verisign - Back In February we told you that Warren Buffets’s Berkshire Hathaway purchased 3,685,700 shares  of Verisign (VRSN) which at the time of acquisition represented an investment of around $165 Million dollars. Today according to Cnbc.com,  Berkshire Hathaway added another 4.49 million shares last quarter and now owns 5.35% of VeriSign. “”While the introduction of a new category of “top level domains” (such as .aero for aviation businesses or .mobi for mobile websites) does increase the ... read more ...
Mon 20th May 2013
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Verisign questions ICANN’s minute posting policies - Company suggests ICANN is only posting letters that “will advance its positions”. Verisign has sent a letter to ICANN questioning why it isn’t publishing certain correspondence on the ICANN.org web site. ICANN has a section on its web site where it publishes many letters it receives and sends. But Verisign says ICANN hasn’t published three prior letters the company sent regarding the proposed new domain registry agreement. The company says it is aware of other ... read more ...
Mon 6th May 2013
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Donuts: Hurry up. Verisign: delayed down. - Many new TLD applicants will take a less-than-ideal contract if it means a faster time to market. When it comes to the new top level domain registry agreement, what you have to gain or lose from new TLDs being introduced will greatly shape your opion. Verisign has submitted two separate comments on the agreement, both of which blast ICANN for dumping the bottom up process and adding a unilateral right to amend the contract. From Verisign’s perspective, a delay in ... read more ...
Tue 30th April 2013
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Verisign gets obvious for triggering web crawling formed on registry data - .Com registry awarded patent for using registry data to trigger web crawling. With Verisign analyzing how to profit from its patent portfolio, competitors should pay close attention to the company’s new patents. Today Verisign was awarded U.S. Patent 8,433,700 (pdf) for “Method and system for triggering web crawling based on registry data”. The patent describes ways in which a registry can provide data to other companies, such as search engines, that may help ... read more ...
Fri 26th April 2013
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4 things Verisign pronounced on the financier discussion call - From Google to where it stashes its cash, here’s what Verisign told analysts yesterday. Yesterday Verisign announced earnings for the first quarter and held its investor conference call. Here are four key things the company explained. Google is slowing our growth. Verisign blames the reduced growth rate in its domain base on overall macroeconomic trends (especially in Europe) and on changes to Google’s search algorithms. On yesterday’s conference call, it certainly ... read more ...
Thu 25th April 2013
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Verisign Reports: 123 Million .Com/.Net Domains; Revenue adult 15%; $1.6 Billion In Cash - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013 reported revenue of $236 million for the first quarter of 2013, up 15% from the same quarter in 2012. Verisign reported the quarter ended with 123.1 million .com/.net domain name registered a 5.5% increase year over year. Verisign reported net income of $85 million and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.52 for the first quarter of 2013, compared to net income of $68 million and diluted EPS ... read more ...
 
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Verisign earnings: adds 1.99 million domains in Q1 - .Com registry Verisign reports first quarter earnings. Verisign reported its first quarter earnings after the bell today. In the first quarter it added a combined 1.99 million domain names in .com and .net. That brings the total to 123.1 million active domain names in the zone for .com and .net — a 5.5 percent increase year over year. This is an improvement over Q4 2012 when it added only 1.25 million names. But a better comparison my by Q1 of 2012, when it added ... read more ...
Thu 4th April 2013
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Apparently Verisign is value a same with or but cost hikes - Company’s market cap is back up to October levels. Just as I don’t understand why the DOW has been hitting all time records lately, I also don’t understand this: Verisign is apparently worth the same with or without seven-percent-a-year price hikes on .com. When Verisign dropped the bomb on October 25 that the Department of Commerce was reviewing its ability to automatically increase prices, the company had a marketcap of about $7 billion. Verisign signed a ... read more ...
Thu 28th March 2013
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Verisign to ICANN: not prepared for new TLDs - Verisign claims insufficient preparation (mostly technical) for new top level domains. Verisign has sent a report to ICANN (and filed it with the Securities and Exchange Commission) that basically says that the internet isn’t prepared new top level domains yet. The report outlines multiple issues, ranging from automated TLD additions to the root (of which Verisign plays a role), lack of emergency backend providers, and lack of final plans for zone file and escrow. From ... read more ...
Tue 26th March 2013
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Should Verisign’s Attempt To Get .Co Bar Its Objections To .Cam & The Rest? - Now that we published the objection filed by Verisign to .Cam as being to similar to .Com, along with the supporting documents, I have been asked what my opinion is on the objection, which is likely to be duplicated in large part when we see Verisign’s objections to .Vet, .Company, .Network and  .Bom and maybe many more. I think Verisign raises some good points regarding confusion between .cam and .com No doubt on a quick look people could be visually confused between the two. .Com and .Cam sound ... read more ...
 
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Here Are a Affidavits & Study Verisign Used In Support Of Its Objection To .Cam: - Verisign, Inc., operator of the .com TLD registry, has filed objections to three applications with ICANN for a new gTLD, .cam. Verisign retained me to design and conduct a survey to determine whether there is likely to be string confusion between the applied-for .cam gTLD and the existing .com TLD.  This report details the methodology and results of the survey. As described in more detail later in this report, the survey results showed a net confusion level of 39% that must be attributed to the ... read more ...
Mon 25th March 2013
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Here Is Verisign’s Objection To .Cam & Why They Think Its Too Close To .Com - A couple of weeks ago we told you we were hearing that Verisign filed objections to new gTLD strings that they believe are confusing to .com or .net for which Verisign is the registry including .Cam, .Bom, .Vet, .Company, .Network. As of today the objections are still not showing up on the on the site of the provider where the objection was filed but TheDomains.com got some detailed information on what Verisign is providing to the International Centere For Dispute Resolution, in support to their  ... read more ...
Mon 18th March 2013
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Breaking: More Verisign Objections: .Network, .Company & .Vet - Although none of Verisign’s objections have been posted officially,  TheDomains.com has learned that Verisign, the company that runs the .com and .net registry has filed additional objections based on “confusion to” .com and .net”. According to our sources, Verisign which we reported the other day objected to .Cam .Bom, now has also objected to .Network, .Company and .Vet. As we wrote about on a couple of days ago it seems that Verisign may have filed objections to any new gTLD string related ... read more ...
Sat 16th March 2013
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Breaking:Verisign Files Objections To New gTLD Apps .Cam & .Bom: Confusing To .Com - TheDomains.com has learned that Verisign (VRSN)  the company that operates the .Com registry  has filed objections to the new gTLD application of .Cam and .Bom,  claiming that they are confusingly similar to .Com. None of the objections are posted on the websites of the providers who will be administering the objections but the applicants have been notified of the objections. In the case of .Cam the term has substantial  meaning on its own and have become one of the most popular type of sites ... read more ...
Fri 15th March 2013
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Verisign Over 1,300 .Com & .Net Pope Domains Registered - A few days ago Godaddy.com the world’s largest domain registrar reported that 479 Pope related domain names were registered within the first hour after the announcement. Today the .com/.net Registry Verisign reported that “between the time Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation and the choosing of Pope Francis I, there were more than 1,300 new domains registered across the .com and .net top level domains with keywords related to the papacy”. On a related note the Chicago lawyer Chris Connors, ... read more ...
Fri 15th February 2013
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Warren Buffet Invests In $165 Million Dollars into Domain Industry - According to TheStreet.com, the most famous stock investor on earth, Warren Buffet’s company Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) has purchased 3,685,700 shares  of Verisign (VRSN). At the closing price of Verisign yesterday he investment represents around $165 Million dollars or about the size of the investment Marchex made in the purchase of Yung Ye’s domain name portfolio some 8 years ago. We told you that more money is going to come into the domain industry than ever before, here is another $165 Million ... read more ...