Domain investor costs are about to increase. This is the fifth in a series of posts about the domain name industry in 2020. Read the others here. .Com prices are going up. ICANN agreed to a contract extension with Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) in ... Continue Reading6 Comments
How domain stocks are faring in 2020
· UncategorizedEndurance leads the way after acquisition. It's been a wild ride in the stock market this year. On March 14, I wrote about how domain name stocks fared during the pandemic market crash up through the close on March 13. I wrote an update in May ... Continue Reading1 Comment
It’s in: the latest list of which registrars are top in .Com
· Domain RegistrarsICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers July 2020. For the second month in a row, Chinese domain name registrar Xin Net has hemorrhaged domains. I ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Verisign reports earnings, 10.9 million new .com/.net registrations
· ServicesVersign reports earnings, including a strong quarter for new registrations. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN), the domain name registry for .com and .net domain names, announced third quarter earnings after the market closed today. Revenue was up 3.1% ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Verisign gets another neural network name suggestion patent
· Policy & LawDomain suggestions are outside of the box. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 10,812,449 (pdf) to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for Method for generating a domain name using a learned information-rich latent space. It ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Milestone: There are now over 150 million .com domains registered
· Uncategorized.Com has over 150 million registrations 35 years after its launch. There are now officially over 150 million .com domain names registered. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) updated its .com domain base statistics earlier today, revealing that .com hit the ... Continue Reading13 Comments
Verisign gets patent for showing contextually-relevant domain names in SERPs
· Policy & LawIt's a neat idea that will never be adopted by large search engines. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent #10,764,245 (pdf) to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for "Domain name determination". The idea behind the patent is that a ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Verisign proposes adding Uniform Rapid Suspension to .com domain names
· Policy & LawProposal surprises working group members. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) has proposed making Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) a consensus policy that would apply to legacy top level domains such as .com and .net. Uniform Rapid Suspension is a quicker, ... Continue Reading14 Comments
Verisign extends price freeze through Q1 2021
· Services.Com price hike delayed. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN), the registry for .com and .net domain names, announced today that it has extended its price freeze on .net and .com domain names through March 31, 2021. The registry instituted the freeze on ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Verisign gets blockchain patent
· Policy & Law.Com registry gets patent for domain name blockchain user addresses. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 10,721,060 (pdf) to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for Domain name blockchain user addresses. The abstract ... Continue Reading3 Comments
