Department of Commerce will still have a say over .com prices. Today, ICANN posted proposed contracts with Verisign (NYSE:VRSN) for the Root Zone Management Agreement (RZMA) and an extension of the .com registry contract. The RZMA is a necessary ... Continue Reading16 Comments
.Com contract extension shorter than Verisign expected
· ServicesExtension will add six years to existing agreement. ICANN has published a proposed extension to its contract with Verisign (NYSE:VRSN) for .com. While the existing contract doesn't expire until 2018, the parties are extending the agreement so that ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Net is trending in Com
· UncategorizedThanks to "researchnet" names, net was the top trending keyword in .com last month. Verisign released its monthly trending keywords report for May, and the number one trending term in .com was...net? Yes, net. According to Verisign's DomainView, ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Prince, Panama and Czechia were popular in .com domains last month
· UncategorizedNews drives domain name registrations. .Com registry Verisign has released its monthly report showing which keywords were trending in new .com domain name registrations. Notable entrants on the list for April included domains paying homage to ... Continue Reading2 Comments
The .Com Report: Uniregistry winning in transfers
· Domain RegistrarsUniregistry continues to win transfers from other domain name registrars. ICANN has published the latest .com transactions report from registry Verisign, showing official results from January. Uniregistry won the transfer game with the most net ... Continue Reading5 Comments
“Gen Z are not [visiting] dot coms.”
· UncategorizedAre websites less important than they used to be? Let me start by noting that this is not a story about youngsters visiting new TLDs rather than .com. It's about the younger generation not visiting domain names at all. Business of Fashion published ... Continue Reading6 Comments
Trump drops, Bots soar in latest .Com report
· UncategorizedThe bots are coming (in .com)! Verisign has released its latest trending keywords report for .com domain name registration. Donald Trump has bee knocked off his perch at number one but was still the second most popular trending keyword in new .com ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Chinese domain name registrar knocks GoDaddy off .Com Perch
· Domain RegistrarseName was #1 in most recent published results. Chinese registrants helped .com surge toward the end of 2015 as they registered millions of short domain names. And, with official numbers just published by ICANN, we now know that this surge pushed ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Verisign: What goes up might come down
· ServicesStrong end of 2015 could make for a challenging end to 2016. .Com domain name registry Verisign reported Q4 results after the bell yesterday. Thanks to Chinese domain name investors, the company had 12.2 million new domain name registrations for ... Continue Reading5 Comments
China dominates new .com registration trends
· UncategorizedChinese names are a big hit in .com. Verisign has released its monthly trending keywords report, and words tied to China dominated last month. The list considers which keywords made the biggest jump in registrations from one month to the next. Here ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment