Domain name registry has taken action against domain names based on law enforcement requests. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN), the registry for .com and .net domain names, has taken action against some domain names related to COVID-19. In a blog post ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Verisign gets domain search ranking patent
· Policy & LawPatent describes way to personalize domain search results. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 10,693,837 (pdf) to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for System for and method of ranking domain names based on user properties. The ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Verisign gets IDN suggestion patent
· Policy & LawPatent helps domain searchers find translations and transliterations. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 10,686,750 (pdf) to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for Alternate character set domain name suggestion and registration ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Verisign patent suggests a new model for expired domains
· Expired DomainsPatent contemplates selling pools of access to each registrar. Someone looking in from the outside would consider the current model for drop catching expired domain names to be inefficient. Each registrar has a connection to the registry, which ... Continue Reading7 Comments
Domain stocks rebound with the market
· Domain RegistrarsMany domain name companies are faring well during the pandemic. On March 14, I wrote about how domain name stocks fared during the pandemic market crash up through the close on March 13. The market wasn't done capitulating, but stocks have ... Continue Reading5 Comments
Verisign shrugs off Covid-19 so far
· ServicesRevenue and earnings remain robust despite the pandemic. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported first quarter earnings yesterday after the market closed. The registry operator processed 10.0 million new .com and .net transactions during the quarter ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
This letter to ICANN’s board is powerful
· Policy & LawIt's time for ICANN to stop the charades and rediscover its bottom-up mandate. ICANN granted price increases to Verisign for .com domain names last month. It announced the decision on a Friday during the pandemic news flurry, just one day after ... Continue Reading15 Comments
Breaking: ICANN and Verisign agree to .com extension with 7% price hikes
· Policy & LawThe only surprise was how fast it happened after the comment report was published. Did you have time to digest ICANN's staff report on comments about the .com price hike? It was published yesterday. Today, Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) and ICANN agreed ... Continue Reading27 Comments
ICANN publishes .com price hike report
· UncategorizedStaff justification report echoes its previous comments, as well as Verisign's. ICANN has published a review of comments submitted about its proposed contract amendment with Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for .com. The most controversial aspect of the ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Breaking: Verisign won’t raise .com prices this year
· ServicesEven if ICANN gives the company the nod, it won't raise prices this year. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN), the registry for .com and .net domain names, won't raise prices for its domain names this year. In an announcement on its blog, the company announced ... Continue Reading7 Comments