Verisign Reports Earnings: Revenue Up 14%; 112 Million Domain Registrations & Over $1.2 Billion In The Bank

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After the market closed today Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported earnings for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2011.

VeriSign, Inc. reported revenue of $197 million for the third quarter of 2011, up 4% from the prior quarter and up 14% from the same quarter in 2010.

As you can see below the quarter closed with over 112 Million domains registered and Verisign having over $1.2 Billion in the bank:

 

Verisign reported net income of $59 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.36 for the third quarter of 2011. This is compared to net income attributable to Verisign stockholders of $785 million and earnings per share attributable to Verisign stockholders of $4.48 on a diluted basis in the same quarter in 2010, which included a net gain of $737 million, net of tax of $244 million, on the sale of the Authentication Services business.

The operating margin was 45.2% for the third quarter of 2011 compared to 34.8% for the same quarter in 2010.

Financial Highlights

 

  • During the third quarter of 2011, Verisign repurchased approximately 7.9 million shares of the company’s common stock for a cost of $235 million.
  • Verisign ended the third quarter of 2011 with Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities and Restricted Cash of $1.239 billion, a decrease of $160 million from the prior quarter and a decrease of $1.313 billion from the same quarter in 2010.
  • Cash flow from operations was $108 million for the third quarter of 2011.
  • Deferred revenues ended the third quarter of 2011 totaling $723 million, an increase of $9 million from the prior quarter and $69 million from the same quarter in 2010.

Business and Corporate Highlights

 

  • Verisign Registry Services ended the quarter with 112 million active domain names in the adjusted zone for .com and .net, representing an 8% increase year-over-year.
  • In the third quarter of 2011, Verisign processed 7.9 million new domain name registrations, representing a 6% increase year-over-year.
  • On Sept. 26, 2011 Verisign announced that the company had appointed John Calys, vice president and controller to the additional position of interim chief financial officer.
  • Verisign ended the third quarter of 2011 with 1,010 employees, compared to 1,040 at the end of the prior quarter.

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

Comments

  1. JNet says

    Sure makes it easier when they continuously & blatantly engage in monoplistic pricing increase practices…enabled by ICANN’t … Ugggg !

    Especially annoying is that we have been mostly in a deflationary environment as well as a bad economy over the past few years and Verisign has unabasedly been jacking up base prices on domains…with the next incease coming in just over 2 months…..$#!+

    Then the icing on the cake is that their buddies over at ICANN’t just this week authorized Pay Increases for top staff and set new Bonus guidelines/goals for CEO Rod Beckstrom….with most of the money coming out of our pockets unjustifiably… including having meetings at expensive and/or exotic places…. Dang !!!

    Good Night & Good Luck !

  2. Black Friday Boycott says

    I’ve heard of a $280mm pile of capital run by 3 men, who are planning to compete with Verisign in the near-term. Domain prices will plummet, one-digit extensions are on the way…