Here comes your yearly fee increase. VeriSign has announced its almost-annual price increases for .com and .net domain names. The wholesale cost from VeriSign for .com domain names will increase from $7.34 to $7.85 on January 15, 2012 and the ... Continue Reading3 Comments
VeriSign Improves Domain Tag Cloud with DomainView
· ServicesTool lets you monitor real time domain registration trends. After writing about VeriSign's new beta NXD data tool yesterday, I also learned that the company has upgraded its Domain Tag Cloud into a neat tool to monitor real time domain registration ... Continue Reading6 Comments
VeriSign Releases Domain Traffic Treasure Trove to the Public
· ServicesVeriSign has released VERISIGN® DomainScoreâ„¢ to the public. The beta tool allows anyone to enter an unregistered domain name and get an idea of how much traffic the domain gets. DomainScore uses NXD data -- basically visit requests to non ... Continue Reading21 Comments
209.8 Million Domain Names As of April
· UncategorizedWeb adds more domain names in Q1. April started with approximately 209.8 million domain names registered according to VeriSign's latest Domain Name Industry Brief (pdf). That means the base of registered domain names grew by 4.5 million in the first ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
VeriSign and Go Daddy Increase Government Lobbying
· Policy & LawTwo domain name industry heavyweights spend more on government lobbying in 2010. Both VeriSign and Go Daddy substantially increased their spending on U.S. government lobbying over the past year, data collected by Domain Name Wire show. The numbers ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
A New VeriSign Slogan?
· UncategorizedCompany files two trademark applications. It looks like VeriSign might be working on a new slogan for its business. The company just filed two "intent to use" trademark applications for its domain name business: Connecting the World Between the ... Continue Reading2 Comments
VeriSign Monopoly Case Fizzles, No Break for Domainers
· Policy & LawCFIT settles with VeriSign for $0. Hopes by domainers that .com prices would fall thanks to an antitrust lawsuit have officially been dashed. VeriSign just released a press release stating that Coalition for ICANN Transparency has agreed to drop a ... Continue Reading6 Comments
VeriSign May Be Able to Continue Hiking .Net Prices 10% Per Year
· Policy & LawProposed contract renewal allows for huge price increases on .net domain registrations. ICANN's contract with VeriSign for running the .net domain name registry expires at the end of June. Thanks to a "presumptive renewal" clause, the contract ... Continue Reading4 Comments
VeriSign Scores a Win in Antitrust Lawsuit
· Policy & LawCourt rules plaintiffs don't have standing to bring suit. A California court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Coalition for ICANN Transparency (CFIT) against VeriSign for its .com and .net domain name contracts. The court ruling was first reported ... Continue Reading1 Comment
VeriSign Loses Money (Sort Of) as .Com and .Net Top 105 Million
· ServicesExcluding a one time charge VeriSign reports nice earnings for Q4. VeriSign reported a loss for the fourth quarter of 2010 in earnings just released. So how can the company that prints money with the .com and .net registry lose money? It was a ... Continue Reading1 Comment