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...]
Verisign Reports: 135.2M .Com/.Net Domains, Increase 3.4% : Has $1.9 Billion In The Bank
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today reported financial results for the third quarter of 2015. VeriSign, Inc. and subsidiaries ("Verisign") reported revenue of $266 million for the third quarter of 2015, up 4.2% from the same quarter in 2014. Verisign reported net income of $92 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.70 for the third quarter of 2015, compared to net income of $95 … [Read more...]
Verisign: XYZ Is 6 On The Top 10 Trending Keyword For .Com Registrations In September
Verisign’s (VRSN) published the top 10 keywords in registered in .COM and .NET in September and with the help of Google who bought amazing publicity to the .XYZ extension with its acquisition of abc.xyz, the term XYZ was number 6 on the top 10 .com list. In all 2356 .com domain names were registered that contained XYZ and here is the list of September .com registrations that contained … [Read more...]
New gTLD’s: Stock Firm Trefis Says Verisign “Doesn’t Have Much To Worry About”
Stock investment firm Trefis.com issued a report on Verisign (VRSN) today entitled "The New Domain Name Game" and concluded when it comes to new gTLD's (new domain name extensions): "It appears that VeriSign doesn’t have much to worry about, at the moment, when it comes to the introduction of new domain name extensions. "Even though the company’s market share has been reduced (52.5% in 2007 … [Read more...]
Big Up Swing In Personal Domain Registration To Point To Social Media Sites
GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), and Verisign (VRSN) are seeing an upswing in people registering "personal domain names" just to point them to their social media sites. It seems people have gotten the word that they don't control their social media pages, the underlying social media company's do so they are registering these personal domain names and pointing them to a their social media … [Read more...]
Verisign Q2 ’15 DNIB Report – Internet Grows to 296 Million Domain Names
Verisign is out with their latest industry brief, they also published an infographic to go along with the report. The infographic is in pdf format so you can view it here. Highlights of the report include: The total number of registered domain names rose to 296 million worldwide across all top-level domains Two million domain names were added to the Internet in Q2 2015: This increase … [Read more...]