Verisign released their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief, which covers th e last quarter of 2016, this week. The fourth quarter of 2016 closed with approximately 329.3 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of approximately 2.3 million domain name registrations, or 0.7 percent over the third quarter of 2016. …
RESTON, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), a global leader in domain names and internet security, announced that its earnings call for the fourth quarter and full year 2016 will take place on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, at 4:30 p.m. (EST). The earnings news release will be distributed to the wire services at approximately 4:05 p.m. …
Afilias has written ICANN asking that it disqualify Nu Dot Co’s $135 million winning bid for .Web, the company also asked ICANN to conduct an investigation, and has also filed a complaint with the Ombudsman. Afilias is reacting following last weeks amended lawsuit by Donuts’ filed after unsuccessfully seeking stop the auction of .Web gTLD …
Donuts has amended its lawsuit against ICANN and demands $22.5 million for the .Web domain. This is Donut’s continuing legal battle with ICANN. The amended complaint (pdf) is filed in the federal district court in California. Last week, the auction for .web, which closed for a record $135 million, the company had attempted to stop …
A recent study, by EURid and the Leuven Statistics Research Centre, set out to better understand the most common usage of websites that are linked to domains, and we thought it would be an interesting exercise to extend similar analysis to the new gTLD market. So, we analyzed all second-level domains registered in new gTLDs …
New Infographic: Perspectives from Small Businesses on New Generic Top-level Domains (gTLDs) WASHINGTON, June 19, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Over the next couple of years, domain standards like .com, .net and .org will be joined by potentially thousands of new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), such as .photography and .restaurant. To gain perspective from those already …
Nine weeks have passed since the U.S. government announced its intention to transition stewardship of the IANA functions to the global community. This landmark announcement requires a measured, thoughtful approach for how we – the Internet community – will map a route to a successful transition. Together, we must pool our efforts with a goal …
Verisign is just not going to let the issue of the risks to the Domain Name System caused by the new gTLD program go. The company that operates .COM has already raised numerous concerns on technical issues such as name collisions. Recently, it has also stepped up its “new gTLD warning campaign” with claims …
The biggest expansion of Internet addresses is being delayed as VeriSign Inc. (VRSN), which gets most of its revenue from managing .com websites, argues with competitors over whether corporate networks could be disrupted. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the non-profit that manages the Web, has proposed holding on to new names to …
NTIA questions Verisign’s recent spate of concerns about new TLD rollout. ICANN has published a letter that Verisign sent to the U.S. National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) regarding Verisign’s security and stability concerns for new top level domains as well as the NTIA’s response. The response shows that the NTIA doesn’t want Verisign playing …