Thank the Chinese and discount pricing for continued demand for .com domain names. Verisign handled 8.7 million new registrations in .com and .net in the third quarter this year, the most ever in a third quarter. That amounted to 1.15 million domain ... Continue Reading14 Comments
Verisign’s new videos: Make your Idea Official [watch]
· UncategorizedClever video series promotes registering a domain name as the first step in a business idea. Verisign released a couple videos today as part of its "Make your Idea Official" campaign. The videos remind me a bit of more recent humorous ads from GoDaddy. ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Verisign reports slowing growth, hikes .Net prices 10%
· Uncategorized.Com base inches forward, .Net prices are increasing. Verisign reported earnings after the bell today, and the results for .com/.net aren't that promising. It gets harder to grow something as it gets bigger, but net adds across these two domain ... Continue Reading8 Comments
Verisign loses new TLD objection against .brand applicant M-NET
· Policy & LawVerisign 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 ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Verisign announces another .net price hike
· Services25 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 ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Which domains the top 10 domain registrars promote
· Domain Registrars.co is a favorite among non-VeriSign domains. Registrars have many options when it comes to which top level domains to promote to customers. Sometimes this is based purely on demand calculations. In other instances domain registries strike deals with ... Continue Reading17 Comments
Jon Stewart Reluctantly Settles for .Net, Struggles with Comptroller
· UncategorizedTwo Daily Show clips related to domain names (Ok, so one's a stretch). Last week on the Daily Show Jon Stewart discussed net neutrality. In the story, he also poked fun at domain names, saying he registered a .net because he couldn't get the .com. He ... Continue Reading6 Comments
GoDaddy Hikes Price of .Net and .Org Domain Names to $13.19
· Domain RegistrarsYou've been paying more at the pump. Now you're paying more at the registrar. I'm not sure when this happened, but a reader pointed out that GoDaddy has hiked prices on .net and .org domain names to $13.19 per domain. That's a 30% increase. This ... Continue Reading9 Comments