Get ready to pay more for .com domains starting in September. Verisign today announced that it will raise prices on .com domains again this year. Prices will increase from today's wholesale price of $8.39 to $8.97 on September 1, 2022. (Registrars ... Continue Reading8 Comments
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
Panel admonishes Afilias over .web appeal, Verisign claims victory
· Policy & LawIndependent Review Panel says appeal was frivolous and orders it to pay ICANN's legal costs. An Independent Review Panel (IRP) has denied Afilias' latest attempt to wrest control of .web away from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) and has ordered the company to ... Continue Reading4 Comments
GoDaddy wins contract to run .TV, Verisign didn’t bid for renewal
· ServicesGoDaddy Registry will now operate and market the .tv domain. GoDaddy Registry (NYSE: GDDY) has won the contract to operate Tuvalu's .tv country code domain name. Tuvalu is a small island nation of about 10,000 people. It struck internet gold ... Continue Reading5 Comments
Verisign patents anomaly detector for domain registries
· Policy & LawPatent describes way to track unusual registration activity. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 11,190,479 (pdf) to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for "Detection of aberrant domain registration and resolution patterns." The ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Revenue and DUMs up over 5% at Verisign
· ServicesVerisign turns in another predictable quarter. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported earnings after the bell today. Q3 2021 revenue was up 5.1% year over year to $334 million. Net income came in at $157 million. That's down from $171 million in the ... Continue ReadingLeave a 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
Registered domains jump in Q2 but still down from last year
· UncategorizedUplift in Q2 can't mask year-over-year decline. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) published its Q2 2021 Domain Name Industry Brief (pdf) this afternoon. The report calculates the total base of registered domain names and tracks recent trends. According to ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
It’s the last day to register/renew .com domains before prices go up
· UncategorizedYou'll pay a bit more tomorrow. If you want to save money on .com renewals, today is your last day to act. Tomorrow, Verisign will increase the wholesale cost of .com domains from $7.85 to $8.39. This is the amount the registry charges ... Continue Reading4 Comments
GoDaddy increasing DDC .com prices to $8.85 on September 1
· Domain RegistrarsGoDaddy will pass along Verisign's increase in September. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) is increasing the wholesale price of .com domains by 7% on September 1, and registrars with little margin will be forced to increase their prices as well. GoDaddy ... Continue Reading1 Comment
