VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), announced that approximately 15 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to approximately 314 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs). The increase of approximately 15 million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 5% over the third quarter of 2015. … [Read more...]
In Less Than 2 Years, .XYZ Passes 14 Year Old .BIZ to Become 5th Largest Domain Extension
The new gTLD domain name extension, .XYZ is which won't be two years old until, June of this year, just surpassed the domain extension .Biz which has been around since 2001 in the number of domain registrations. According to RegistrarStats.com, .XYZ now has 2,369,039 domain name registered which passed .Biz which has 2,305,687 domains registered. In passing .Biz, .XYZ becomes the 5th … [Read more...]
Verisign’s Top Trending Keywords In December For .Com & .Net Include Chinese Fang & Wang
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .com and .net during the month of December 2015 are below release by Verisign the registry for .Com and .Net are as follows. Interesting to note that Wang is the third biggest gTLD extension (.Wang) by registration volume with over 620,000 registrations as of today's totals. … [Read more...]
Judge In 1st Verisign vs. XYZ Case Publishes 15 Page Opinion
The federal judge CLAUDE M. HILTON who granted a summary judgement in favor of .XYZ and Daniel Negari last month throwing Verisign's case for false advertising out, today handed down a 15 page Memorandum Opinion supporting the summary judgement decision and of course its very interesting. Here are the highlights: THIS MATTER comes before the Court on Defendants XYZ.COM, LLC and Daniel Negari … [Read more...]
Verisign Trending Keywords For October Include TM of Nike
Verisign(VRSN) just published it's trending keywords for domain names registered in .com and .net in October The term "Ok " is the number one .Com trending term, which is pretty strange. Words on the trending list for .com include; walk, blab, sold It's pretty early for Christmas, but it's never to early for marijuana. On the .Net list I don't know who is registering all those … [Read more...]
Domain Registration At a Record Pace 460,000, Yesterday
The huge surge in daily domain name registrations continued yesterday as over 460,000 domain names were registered across all Top Level Domains (excluding ccTLD). Traditionally the number of domain name registrations slow on the weekend, to the point where it's not unusual to see the number of .Com deleted, exceed the number of new registrations for the day, leading to a negative … [Read more...]
Last Call: 6 Number .Com’s: Less than 8K Left Out of 1 Million
If you're considering registering any 6 number Ccom domains (NNNNNN.com) I'm going calling "Last Call'. As of publication less than 8,000 NNNNNN.com remain available for registration. The possible number of 6 numbered .com domains is 1,000,000 including the dreaded number 4 and zero. We would expect all of these domain name to be registered by the end of the weekend. There is a huge … [Read more...]