The ICANN board just issued a resolution renewing the Contract with Verisign to run the .com registry for another six years. Under the contract Verisign has the right to increase the wholesale price of .com 7% in any 4 of the six years of the contract. I appears the Board of ICANN did not adopt any of the suggestions made during the comment period Here is the resolution: "Whereas, the … [Read more...]
ICANN’s Public Comment Period On Renewal Of Verisign Contract Closes Thursday
ICANN public comment period for the .com Registry Agreement renewal ends on Thursday April 26th. As you know, under the terms of the renewal contract Verisign will be able to raise their wholesale price on .com registration 7% in 4 out of the next 6 years. You can submit you comments on the contract to com-renewal@icann.org. You will get an email from ICANN acknowledging the comment … [Read more...]
Verisign Launches Hashlink For Domains
Verisign has just launched a new product called Verisign Domain Hashlink Here is the info from their site: "Verisign Domain Hashlink makes URLs shorter, easy-to-remember and friendlier to your users." "You've worked hard to secure a web address – and keep its site content up-to-date, relevant and useful for its visitors. Now there's a new way to help make it work even harder: by making … [Read more...]
Verisign Report May Indicate That The Number Of Parked Domains Looks To Be In Significant Decline
Verisign released its Domain Name Industry Brief yesterday for the 4th quarter of 2011. At one time Verisign reported the number of parked domains but stopped that practice a few years back. The last time Verisign reported the number or percentage of parked domains on a .com or a .net domain name that number totaled 7%. In recent years Verisign has been lumping parked domains into a … [Read more...]
Verisign Reports 2011 Closed With 225 Million Domain Registrations: .Com/Net Almost 114 Million
Verisign just published its Domain Name Industry Brief report for the 4th Quarter of 2011. The fourth quarter of 2011 closed with a base of more than 225 million domain name registrations across all Top Level Domains (TLDs), which represents a 10 percent increase since the fourth quarter of 2010. The .com and .net TLDs reached 113.8 million names combined at the end of the fourth quarter of … [Read more...]
A Pure Drop Domain Formerly Owned By Verisign, ePhoto.com Sells On SnapNames.com For $16K
The domain name ePhoto.com just sold on SnapNames.com for $16,000. The high bidder's ID was Maxbid. In all there were 174 bidders in the auction with 7 bidding $5K or more. The domain name ePhoto.com was a pure drop domain, meaning it didn't drop to a certain service, and could have been caught by anyone. According to DomainTools appears to have been last owned by Verisign and … [Read more...]
Verisign Domain Name Industry Report For 3rd Q Is Out: 220 Million Domains: 112 Million .Com/.Net’s
Verisign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), just issued its Domain Name Industry Brief Report for the third quarter of 2011. As of September 30, 2011 there are nearly 220 million domain names registered worldwide across all extensions and out of which 112 Million are .com and .net domain names. The increase of 4.9 million domain names equates to a growth rate of 2.3% over the second quarter of 2011, and … [Read more...]