So the final count for the number of registered domain names for January 1, 2016 is 123,963,640 according to Verisign. As of Dec. 31, 2014, the number of .Com registrations were 115.6 million names. So the number of .Com's increased some 7 Million in 2015 or over 7%. The question is how many .Com will be registered by next year, 1/1/17? This year we all know we had a short period of … [Read more...]
Verisign DNIB Q3 2015 Registrations have grown by 14.8 million, or 5.2 percent, year over year
Verisign (VRSN) released their 2015 Q3 Industry Brief Some takeaways: The total number of registered domain names rose to 299 million worldwide across all top-level domains 3.1 million domain names were added to the Internet in Q3 2015: This increase globally equates to a growth rate of 1.1% over Q2 2015 Worldwide registrations have grown by 14.8 million, or 5.2 percent, year over … [Read more...]
Judge In 1st Verisign vs. XYZ Case Publishes 15 Page Opinion
The federal judge CLAUDE M. HILTON who granted a summary judgement in favor of .XYZ and Daniel Negari last month throwing Verisign's case for false advertising out, today handed down a 15 page Memorandum Opinion supporting the summary judgement decision and of course its very interesting. Here are the highlights: THIS MATTER comes before the Court on Defendants XYZ.COM, LLC and Daniel Negari … [Read more...]
XYZ & Negari Beats Verisign In Federal Court, Again: CentralNic Too
.XYZ has just won another court battle against Verisign (VRSN). Back three weeks ago a Federal Court dismissed a case brought by Verisign against XYZ.com, the registry for .XYZ and Daniel Negari personally alleging false advertising by granting XYZ and Negari a short summary judgement opinion. Now in a second case in Verisign sued XYZ.COM, DANIEL NEGARI and CentralNic, which is the … [Read more...]
3.2 Million .Com Added In Last 3 Weeks More Than Increase In All Domains in 2Q
As of today Verisign is reporting that the .Com zone file has topped 123 million domain names; 123,203,096 On October 27, 2015, three weeks ago, the .com zone file topped 120 Million for the first time and had 120,034,068 domain names. So we are looking at an increase of almost 3.2 million new .com domain names since October 27th, three weeks ago. Consider that Verisign reported in this … [Read more...]
Verisign Trending Keywords For October Include TM of Nike
Verisign(VRSN) just published it's trending keywords for domain names registered in .com and .net in October The term "Ok " is the number one .Com trending term, which is pretty strange. Words on the trending list for .com include; walk, blab, sold It's pretty early for Christmas, but it's never to early for marijuana. On the .Net list I don't know who is registering all those … [Read more...]
Domain Registration At a Record Pace 460,000, Yesterday
The huge surge in daily domain name registrations continued yesterday as over 460,000 domain names were registered across all Top Level Domains (excluding ccTLD). Traditionally the number of domain name registrations slow on the weekend, to the point where it's not unusual to see the number of .Com deleted, exceed the number of new registrations for the day, leading to a negative … [Read more...]