Deja vu. Not so fast (or slow, as you might observe). Just weeks after ICANN's board decided the organization should move forward with contracting .web to Nu Dot Co, which plans to assign the domain to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN), the timeline is in ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Verisign reports 7.2% revenue jump, 1.23 million domain base increase
· ServicesVerisign turns in a solid quarter buoyed by .com price increase. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported Q1 earnings after the market closed this afternoon. The company reported that Q1 revenue was up 7.2% compared to the same quarter last year. That's ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Verisign, Altanovo and ICANN trade barbs over .web
· Policy & LawMore ill-will exposed in newly-published letters. This week, ICANN published a series of letters related to the fight for .web. The quick backstory: a company called Nu Dot Co won the auction to run the .web top level domain for $135 million. ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Verisign’s revenue hit $1.33 billion in 2021 with strong Q4
· ServicesStrong Q4 lifts Verisign's 2021 results. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) released earnings after the market closed yesterday. Verisign pulled in $1.33 billion revenue for the year, up 4% year over year. This was aided by a strong Q4 performance that saw ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Verisign gets sweeping patent for dynamic and variable pricing
· Policy & LawPatent covers dynamic domain pricing, registration requirements and more. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 11,244,368 (pdf) to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for Adaptive control of domain name registrations via dynamically ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Verisign applies pressure to ICANN to delegate .web
· Policy & LawVerisign is tired of delays (as it should be). Verisign is applying pressure to ICANN to delegate the .web top level domain name to it. Today, the company published a blog post that follows up to a letter (pdf) that Nu Dot Co sent to ... Continue Reading6 Comments
Milestone: There are now over 150 million .com domains registered
· Uncategorized.Com has over 150 million registrations 35 years after its launch. There are now officially over 150 million .com domain names registered. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) updated its .com domain base statistics earlier today, revealing that .com hit the ... Continue Reading13 Comments
Verisign awarded patent for using machine learning in name spinning
· Policy & LawIdea uses neural networks to find relevant domain names. The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 10,778,640 (pdf) to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for "Deep neural network generation of domain names." The patent ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Verisign gets patent for showing contextually-relevant domain names in SERPs
· Policy & LawIt's a neat idea that will never be adopted by large search engines. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent #10,764,245 (pdf) to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for "Domain name determination". The idea behind the patent is that a ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Verisign extends price freeze through Q1 2021
· Services.Com price hike delayed. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN), the registry for .com and .net domain names, announced today that it has extended its price freeze on .net and .com domain names through March 31, 2021. The registry instituted the freeze on ... Continue Reading1 Comment
