Verisign issued its fifth and last chapter in its five part series "New gTLD Security, Stability, Resiliency Update: Exploratory Consumer Impact Analysis"; issues related to security, stability, and resilience of the DNS ecosystem, particularly as we approach the rollout of new gTLDs. " Bottom line Verisign Concluded with: "The mechanical capability to delegate a vast quantity of new gTLDs … [Read more...]
Verisign: Ends 2Q With 124.3 Million .Com/.Net; Domain Revenue up 12% & $2 Billion In The Bank
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), treported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2013 after the market closed. As of the quater ending June 30 there were 124.3 million .com/.net domain names an increase of 4.9% VeriSign, Inc., and subsidiaries ("Verisign") reported revenue of $239 million for the second quarter of 2013, up 12 percent from the same quarter in 2012. Verisign … [Read more...]
Verisign Launches Find Your Custom Domain Tool/App: Domaininspiration.com
Verisign released a new Tool called the Custom Domain Tool at Domaininspiration.com to help people find the perfect unregistered domain name. The site preference is for you to log in with your Facebook account and then randomly generates domain names to match your profile however you can sign up with it using your email address as well. In my case the Tool "randomly generated 209 domains … [Read more...]
Verisign: ICANN Needs To Put Early Warning System In Place Not To Break Root
In the second part 2 of a 5 part series of articles released by Verisign on its blog was written by Danny McPherson on the possible dangers of the impending rollout of the new gTLD program. Basically this post chats about the DNS system, the root servers and the fact that the delegation of 1,000 new gTLD every year is a huge increase from what has been minimal growth over the years and urges … [Read more...]
Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Now Owns Over 5% Of Verisign
Back In February we told you that Warren Buffets's Berkshire Hathaway purchased 3,685,700 shares of Verisign (VRSN) which at the time of acquisition represented an investment of around $165 Million dollars. Today according to Cnbc.com, Berkshire Hathaway added another 4.49 million shares last quarter and now owns 5.35% of VeriSign. ""While the introduction of a new category of "top level … [Read more...]
Verisign Reports: 123 Million .Com/.Net Domains; Revenue up 15%; $1.6 Billion In Cash
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013 reported revenue of $236 million for the first quarter of 2013, up 15% from the same quarter in 2012. Verisign reported the quarter ended with 123.1 million .com/.net domain name registered a 5.5% increase year over year. Verisign reported net income of $85 million and diluted earnings … [Read more...]
Should Verisign’s Attempt To Get .Co Bar Its Objections To .Cam & The Rest?
Now that we published the objection filed by Verisign to .Cam as being to similar to .Com, along with the supporting documents, I have been asked what my opinion is on the objection, which is likely to be duplicated in large part when we see Verisign's objections to .Vet, .Company, .Network and .Bom and maybe many more. I think Verisign raises some good points regarding confusion between .cam … [Read more...]