Tag Archives: VeriSign

Mon 28th January 2013
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Verisign’s patents: who will a association go after? - Company’s patent portfolio isn’t limited to domain name industry. Last week Verisign said it would consider ways to monetize its patent portfolio. The company’s patent portfolio is quite broad. In addition to covering domain names, it has patents and patent applications covering everything from digital cameras to online payments to databases to telecom. Who will it go after? Let’s take a look at some of the potential targets. Competing domain registries Verisign ... read more ...
Tue 15th January 2013
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Verisign gets another obvious for ccTLD registration - Patent covers bulk checking and registration of country code top level domains. Verisign has been granted U.S. patent number 8,356,081 for “Automated Domain Name Registration”. This patent, applied for in 2005, is a divisional patent of 7,000,028, which was filed back in 2000. Which will take you down memory lane… The genesis of this patent is actually idNames, a company founded by Pinky Brand and Marc Ostrofsky. Network Solutions bought the company in 1998. ... read more ...
Mon 31st December 2012
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2012 Domain Dunce: The .com agreement renewal - Verisign lost an awful lot of market cap but consumers won. It’s difficult to say who exactly is the deserving subject of this Domain Dunce Award. It goes way back. In 2006 ICANN settled a long running dispute with Verisign by giving it a very nice contract to run the .com registry. The contract allowed Verisign to increase prices 7% per year in four of the six years of the contract. The contract was up for renewal this year, and ICANN rubber stamped a new contract ... read more ...
Sat 29th December 2012
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We Think .TK Domains Are Screwing With Verisign’s Quarterly Domain Report - Last week when Verisign released its 3rd Quarter  Domain Name Industry Brief  everyone focused in on the raw numbers 246 million domain names. However what if I was to tell you that one change made by Verisign has made a huge impact on the overall domain registration numbers. That change was including the .TK registry in the Domain Name Industry Brief. Two quick points. The .TK registry was not always included in the quarterly reports, matter of fact Verisign included the registry for the first ... read more ...
Mon 10th December 2012
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Verisign Here Come The Lawyers - The Shareholders Foundation, Inc.  has opened an “investigation on behalf of investors of Verisign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN) shares over potential securities laws violations by Verisign, Inc. and certain of its directors and officers in connection certain financial statements was announced”. “Investors who purchased shares of Verisign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN), have certain options and should contact the Shareholders Foundation at mail(at)shareholdersfoundation.com or call +1(858) 779 – 1554.” “The ... read more ...
Fri 30th November 2012
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UPDATED: Mike Mann Just Saved Almost $2 Million Dollars With Verisign’s No Rate Increase .Com Contract - (George Kirikos just pointed out that I did not take into account the compouding of the Verisign rate increase and he is correct so I have correct the math and the numbers) Mike Mann owns around 330,000 domain names. Based on Verisign’s contract  renewal to operate the .Com registry over the next six years, without being able to raise their prices 7% in 4 out of 6 years, according to our calculation Mike Mann just saved almost $2 Million dollars. The current rate for a .Com registration or renewal ... read more ...
 
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Verisign: If New gTLD’s Are Successful We Might Be Able To Lift All Price Caps On .Com’s - Coming out of the Verisign ( NASDAQ : VRSN ) conference call this morning announcing that the contract to operate the .com contract had been renewed for six years, without any price increases, is that all price caps on .Com’s could be lifted as early as 2014 if the new gTLD program is highly successful. Responding to questions, Verisign stated that through this contract renewal they”obtained an option for ourselves before 2018 to ask commerce to find   we no longer have “market power” and ... read more ...
 
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Verisign: .Com Contract Renewed For 6 Years With NO Automatic Price Increases - In what domain holder have to consider a victory, Verisign, Inc.  ( NASDAQ : VRSN ) was granted an six year renewal of the .Com registry but losses the ability to automatically raise prices. Verisign’s current pricing of $7.85 per domain name registration will continue for the six-year term of the Agreement. Under the current contract Verisign has to operate the registry which expires today they had the right to raise prices 7% in any 4 of the 6 years of its choice and in fact did elect to raise ... read more ...
 
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Verisign shares dump 15% on agreement change - Verisign stock nosedives on news of new contract without price increases. Shares of Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) are down 15% in early trading after the company announced that its contract to run .com had been renewed without price increases. Verisign’s contract renewal with ICANN allowed it to raise prices 7% in four of the six years of the contract. That would have allowed the company to raise the price from $7.85 today to $10.29 after four years. But then the U.S. ... read more ...
 
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U.S. goverment only gave .com domain owners a $10.78 taxation break - Cost of holding domain for six years decreases by as much as $10.78. Hey, don’t say the U.S. government never did anything for you. They just gave domain name owners a $10.78 price reduction over the term of the next .com contract by eliminating price increases. Assuming that Verisign would have increased prices in the first four years of its contract (it had the right to do it in 4 of 6), that equals a $10.78 savings per domain that you would have held for the ... read more ...
Thu 29th November 2012
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Quick Poll: Will Verisign Gets The .Com Contract Renewed? - We are going to run a poll for just tonight on whether Verisign is going to get its contract  to operate the .Com registry renewed. Today Verisign scheduled a conference call and live webcast for tomorrow morning on the status of the renewal of the contract to run the .com registry. So the question is simple. Will Verisign Get its Contract to Run The .Com Registry Renewed? You can answer Yes No Yes but with price reductions Yes with reduced rate increases Yes with price reductions and reduced rate ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: Verisign To Hold Conference Call & Live Webcast Friday Morning At 8:30 AM On Status of .Com Contract - Verisign ( NASDAQ : VRSN )just announced they will be holding a conference call and Live Webcast tomorrow morning, Friday November 30, 2012 at 8:30 AM EST: “to provide a status update on the .com Registry Agreement renewal”. “The call will be accessible by direct dial at (888) 676-VRSN (U.S.) or (913) 312-0400 (international).” A listen-only live webcast of the conference call will also be available at http://investor.verisign.com. November 30th is the date previously set by Verisign as the ... read more ...
Tue 27th November 2012
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ICA Tells Dept Of Commerce To Make Verisign Roll Back .Com Prices By $2 To Match .Net & Limit Increases To CPI - In a 16 page letter sent by Phil Corwin  the Internet Commerce Association (ICA)  to the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ), the ICA urges the DOC the DOJ not to approve the renewal of the Verisign contract to operate the .com registry unless Verisign rolls back wholesale prices of .com domain names to the same price it charges for .net domain registrations and to limit price increases in the future to the increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Verisign ... read more ...
Tue 13th November 2012
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The Domain Venture Partners new TLD representation deck - New TLD applicant hoped to raise up to £100 million, targeted 40%+ annual returns. In August a Florida man filed a lawsuit claiming he invested $123,000 into a business to run the .bim new top level domain that didn’t get off the ground. The suit names Domain Venture Partners PCC Limited, which is an applicant for 60 top level domain names. Domain Venture Partners’ (DVP) applications were all filed in conjunction with Famous Four Media but through various subsidiary ... read more ...
Thu 1st November 2012
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VeriSign shares burst $4 in 15 mins, association issues matter about .com contract - VeriSign details .com contract renewal and its current status. Last week VeriSign made the surprising announcement that The Department of Commerce was evaluating the pricing in its .com registry contract renewal. Its shares plunged from $46 to around $36. Shares have jumped up about $4 in the past 15 minutes or so (around 2 pm EDT), shortly after the company just put out a statement about the renewal, reiterating that its role as the .com registry provider is not ... read more ...
Fri 26th October 2012
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For VeriSign, it’s 2009 all over again - Growth in .Com/.net base slows down thanks in part to search engine changes. Immediately after Verisign released its earnings yesterday that showed slowing growth, fellow blogger Michael Berkens sent me this tweet: Michael was referring to my earlier article that stated the numbers he used in his own post saying .com/.net growth had slowed to a crawl weren’t a fair comparison, and that historically .com growth rates have been on a steady but measured decline. While ... read more ...
 
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Commerce to Verisign: are we creation too most money? - U.S. government reviewing .com agreement price hikes. Verisign has a wonderful business model. Running the .com registry has huge efficiencies of scale. As the .com base gets bigger, it throws off more cash. For years the company and its investors have been able to count on two great upward trajectories: a growing base of .com domains and 7% price hikes in most years. Although the growth rate of .com is slowing, it isn’t slower growth that has sent the stock down ... read more ...
Thu 25th October 2012
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Verisign Reports: 119.9 .Com/Net Registrations; .Com Contract Still Pending & Stock Is Down 10% - VeriSign, Inc. ( NASDAQ : VRSN ), reported financial results for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2012 today after the market closed and the news disappointed the market as shares are down over 11% in after market trading, a huge move for a stock like Verisign. VeriSign, Inc.  (“Verisign”) reported revenue of $224 million for the third quarter of 2012, up 13% from the same quarter in 2011. Verisign reported net income of $78 million and diluted earnings per shares (EPS) of $0.47 for the third ... read more ...
 
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Verisign shares dump 14% after hours on pricing concerns, slower growth - Shares off sharply as .com price hikes in doubt. VeriSign shares are down 14% in after hours trading to about $40.00 at the time of writing. This is likely do mostly to concerns over VeriSign being able to hike prices 7% per year in its .com contract renewal. In its earnings release this afternoon, the company stated: As a result of communications beginning in October 2012 with the Commerce Department, we have concluded that the Commerce Department may not complete ... read more ...
Fri 5th October 2012
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Verisign files obvious focus for approach of transfering hosting on DNSSEC Domains - Application describes way to change hosting on DNSSEC enabled domains without any downtime. Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) bring all sorts of security benefits, but it can make changing hosting providers more challenging. Verisign has filed a patent for systems and methods for making the process of changing web hosts on a DNSSEC-enabled domain easier (pdf). Here’s the challenge, as the company describes in its application named “Transfer of ... read more ...
Thu 4th October 2012
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Verisign wants obvious on “non-existent domain” research tools - Company files patent application related to NXD data analysis. Verisign has made great strides in opening up its treasure trove of data related to traffic to non-existent domain names (NXD). Now it wants to patent some of its methods. The company filed a patent application (pdf) for “Traffic Like NXDomains” in March last year. The application was just published today. The application explains how its NXD tools benefit domainers: Maintaining and interpreting records ... read more ...
Tue 2nd October 2012
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240 Million Domains Registered: .Com/.Net Increased Just 1.6% Over 1st Quarter - Verisign released its  latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief report,  for the 2nd quarter of 2012. The second quarter of 2012 closed with a base of more than 240 million domain name registrations across all Top- Level Domains (TLDs), an increase of 7.3 million domain names, or 3.1% over the first quarter of 2012. registrations have grown by 25.5 million, or 11.9 percent, year over year.1, 2 The base of Country Code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) was 100.3 million domain names, a 5.7 percent ... read more ...
Fri 28th September 2012
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.Com/.Net Total Registrations Slows To A Crawl - According to Verisign’s Zone File Information site the total amount of .com/.net registered as of today is 119,700,000 million As of March 31st the amount of .com/.net domains stood at 116.7 million domain names. As of the March Verisign State of the Domain Report  “.com/.net registrations grew 8.1 % over the first quarter of 2011″ or 8.9 million during the first quarter of 2012″ So we have at basically 6 months later an increase of just 3 million domains. At that rate the total annual increase ... read more ...
Fri 3rd August 2012
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Guy insane about CentralNic domains sues ICANN and Network Solutions - Hi Andrew: Quick work … I’ve not even received my ‘official’ AO440 forms, that need mailing to the above mentioned; and here thank’s to your effective journalistic efforts, they now know that my aggrieved plodding is moving forward. FYI ~ I DID NOT withdraw from the UDRP “Expert” services of Nominet! Nominet … DID NOT … do the work contracted, ample documents were presented to Visa for a charge back; and they conceded, now I’m moving forward, then back. I’m well ... read more ...
Fri 27th July 2012
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Behold, a .com ticker! - An up-to-date number of .com registrations. As I mentioned last night, Verisign has started released daily domain counts for both the .com and .net namespaces. The information is now available at this page. The data includes both domains that are in the zone file as well as registered domains that don’t have nameservers (and thus, don’t show up in the zone file). As of this morning there are over 104 million .com domain registrations and close to 15 million .net ... read more ...