Company missed its lowered guidance. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) released its Q4 and full-year 2022 earnings results yesterday after the market closed. The company is generally good at pulling the right levers to hit its guidance for the .com/.net ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Verisign announces another .com price hike
· Policy & LawCompany will raise wholesale cost of .com domains by 62 cents. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) today announced a 7% increase in .com prices to take effect on September 1, 2023. The wholesale price for .com domains will increase from $8.97 currently to ... Continue Reading12 Comments
Latest .com rankings: a slow month
· Domain RegistrarsHere are the biggest and fastest-growing domain name registrars for .com domains. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers September 2022. It ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Verisign files more blockchain patent applications
· Policy & LawUSPTO publishes two more blockchain-related patent applications from Verisign. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published two of Verisign's (NASDAQ: VRSN) blockchain-related patent applications last week. Application ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Verisign lowers full year domain guidance (again)
· ServicesCompany predicts full year growth of 1% or less. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced third quarter earnings after the market closed today. The company's revenue was $357 million, up 6.8% year over year. It ran an operating margin of 66.3% and ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Domain stocks are having a rough year
· Uncategorized...but some are beating the market. It's been a wild year for asset prices and stocks of domain name-related companies are no exception. Domain companies are tech companies, so the best comparison is the NASDAQ, which is down 32% YTD through ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Latest .com domain name leaders
· Domain RegistrarsThese are the fastest growing and biggest domain name registrars for .com domains. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers June 2022. June ... Continue Reading1 Comment
.Com continued to slip in Q3
· ServicesThe total number of registered .com domains fell again during the past quarter. The number of registered .com domain names fell last quarter, the second consecutive quarter-over-quarter fall. As of September 30, the last day of Q3, there were ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Latest .com registrar rankings
· Domain RegistrarsThese are the fastest growing and biggest domain name registrars for .com domains. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers April 2022. The ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Verisign gets another expired domain patent
· Expired DomainsPatent describes a separate "cache" pool for expired domains. The current method of drop catching domain names — throwing as many registrar add commands at the registry as possible — hasn't changed. But that doesn't mean the world's largest domain ... Continue Reading3 Comments