Verisign released a new Tool called the Custom Domain Tool at Domaininspiration.com to help people find the perfect unregistered domain name. The site preference is for you to log in with your Facebook account and then randomly generates domain names to match your profile however you can sign up with it using your email address as well. In my case the Tool "randomly generated 209 domains … [Read more...]
Verisign: ICANN Needs To Put Early Warning System In Place Not To Break Root
In the second part 2 of a 5 part series of articles released by Verisign on its blog was written by Danny McPherson on the possible dangers of the impending rollout of the new gTLD program. Basically this post chats about the DNS system, the root servers and the fact that the delegation of 1,000 new gTLD every year is a huge increase from what has been minimal growth over the years and urges … [Read more...]
Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Now Owns Over 5% Of Verisign
Back In February we told you that Warren Buffets's Berkshire Hathaway purchased 3,685,700 shares of Verisign (VRSN) which at the time of acquisition represented an investment of around $165 Million dollars. Today according to Cnbc.com, Berkshire Hathaway added another 4.49 million shares last quarter and now owns 5.35% of VeriSign. ""While the introduction of a new category of "top level … [Read more...]
Verisign Reports: 123 Million .Com/.Net Domains; Revenue up 15%; $1.6 Billion In Cash
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013 reported revenue of $236 million for the first quarter of 2013, up 15% from the same quarter in 2012. Verisign reported the quarter ended with 123.1 million .com/.net domain name registered a 5.5% increase year over year. Verisign reported net income of $85 million and diluted earnings … [Read more...]
Should Verisign’s Attempt To Get .Co Bar Its Objections To .Cam & The Rest?
Now that we published the objection filed by Verisign to .Cam as being to similar to .Com, along with the supporting documents, I have been asked what my opinion is on the objection, which is likely to be duplicated in large part when we see Verisign's objections to .Vet, .Company, .Network and .Bom and maybe many more. I think Verisign raises some good points regarding confusion between .cam … [Read more...]
Here Are the Affidavits & Study Verisign Used In Support Of Its Objection To .Cam:
A couple of weeks ago we told you we were hearing that Verisign had filed objections to new gTLD strings that they believe are confusing to .com or .net for which Verisign is the registry including .Cam, .Bom, .Vet, .Company, .Network. Last night we published Verisign's objection to .Cam as being too close to .Com In support of their objection, Verisign provided the Centere with two … [Read more...]
Here Is Verisign’s Objection To .Cam & Why They Think Its Too Close To .Com
A couple of weeks ago we told you we were hearing that Verisign filed objections to new gTLD strings that they believe are confusing to .com or .net for which Verisign is the registry including .Cam, .Bom, .Vet, .Company, .Network. As of today the objections are still not showing up on the on the site of the provider where the objection was filed but TheDomains.com got some detailed … [Read more...]