Stock investment firm Trefis.com issued a report on Verisign (VRSN) today entitled "The New Domain Name Game" and concluded when it comes to new gTLD's (new domain name extensions): "It appears that VeriSign doesn’t have much to worry about, at the moment, when it comes to the introduction of new domain name extensions. "Even though the company’s market share has been reduced (52.5% in 2007 … [Read more...]
Big Up Swing In Personal Domain Registration To Point To Social Media Sites
GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), and Verisign (VRSN) are seeing an upswing in people registering "personal domain names" just to point them to their social media sites. It seems people have gotten the word that they don't control their social media pages, the underlying social media company's do so they are registering these personal domain names and pointing them to a their social media … [Read more...]
Verisign Q2 ’15 DNIB Report – Internet Grows to 296 Million Domain Names
Verisign is out with their latest industry brief, they also published an infographic to go along with the report. The infographic is in pdf format so you can view it here. Highlights of the report include: The total number of registered domain names rose to 296 million worldwide across all top-level domains Two million domain names were added to the Internet in Q2 2015: This increase … [Read more...]
Verisign: Trump & Alphabet Both Make top 10 Trending Keywords in .Com & .Net In August
The words Bank, Local, Experts, Trump, Scope. Alphabet, Fantasy, Tomorrow, Method and Teeth were the top trending keywords registered in .Com in August according to Verisign the registry for the .com and .net extensions. Alphabet is related to Google's naming of its parent company and Trump I think you can figure that one out for yourself. Trump and Alphabet where the only two trending … [Read more...]
Verisign: Brands Are Keeping Their .Com: Don’t See Anybody Abandoning .Com for .Brand or Another TLD.”
In the Verisign earnings call yesterday the following question was asked by Fred Ziegel, Topeka Capital Markets. Fred Ziegel (Analyst - Topeka Capital Markets): "In your .brand customer base that you are working with, what's your sense of how they are thinking about it from the perspective of -- are they going to move from .com to .xyz or whatever? Or are they more thinking that this will be an … [Read more...]
Verisign Reports: Revenue up 4.9%: 133.5 Million Registered .Com/.Net Domains
VeriSign, Inc. (VRSN), the operator of the .com and .net registry reported financial results for the second quarter of 2015 reporting revenue of $263 million for the second quarter of 2015, up 4.9% from the same quarter in 2014. Verisign reported net income of $93 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.70 for the second quarter of 2015, compared to net income of $100 million and diluted … [Read more...]
Verisign Announces $30K Winner of #InternetOfficial Contest: KidsCookDinner.com
Verisign the registry for the .com registry has announced the Grand Prize Winner of it's #InternetOfficial contest. It’s KidsCookDinner.com, registered through Network Solutions. I was one of the five judges selected by Verisign to judge the contest however the Grand Prize winner was selected by the public. Here is the announcement: ""New York-based Kate K. submitted the most … [Read more...]