Verisign ( NASDAQ: VRSN) announced earnings today, they exceeded expectations and the stock is up over 5% in after hours trading. For domain investors the news most interesting is that the price of .coms are going up. The price hike will take .com wholesale pricing to $8.39. The company ended the fourth quarter with 165.2 […]
Continue ReadingVerisign: “Internet Grows to 370.7 Million Domain Name Registrations”
Verisign released their Q3 2020 Domain Name Industry Brief. .Coms increased, new gtld’s were down 1.5 million vs Q2. However year over year registrations were up. From the report: The third quarter of 2020 closed with 370.7 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 0.6 million domain name registrations, or […]
Continue ReadingVerisign conference call addresses .com wholesale increase and .web
Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported earnings yesterday. Stock is down close to 4% today. The company expects the renewal rate for third-quarter 2020 to be around 73.4%. I thought this was interesting the number of domain names up for renewal in Q4 is 34.8 million. Yahoo provided a transcript of the earnings call. Two questions they […]
Continue ReadingVerisign DNIB Q1 2020 (Registrations up 1.2% compared to Q4 2019)
Verisign released their Domain Name Industry Brief for Q1 2020. From the looks of the report it was a good quarter for new gtlds. An increase of 3 million registrations over Q4 2019. NEW GTLD DETAIL Total new gTLDs (ngTLDs) domain name registrations were 32.3 million at the end of the first quarter of 2020, […]
Continue Reading“At this stage, .com should be $1,000 a year to hold”
That’s right $1,000 a year. Joe Styler posted a thread on Namepros about the ICANN comment period regarding Verisign increasing prices on .com. Namepros member Keith who is an active domain investor took a contrarian approach if he was not trolling everyone. Keith left two comments An interesting take, $1,000 a year would be ridiculous […]
Continue ReadingVerisign giving away free .tv domains at Twitchcon
It looks like Verisign is at Twitchcon giving away free .tv domains. If you happen to be attending you can stop by their booth. ATTENTION ALL STREAMERS: If you’re at Twitchcon and don’t already have a .TV domain name you can get one for free at the .TV booth in the main expo hall in […]
Continue ReadingTaylor Swift, Jumbo and Repair Verisign’s top trending keywords for August
Verisign released their top 10 keywords in registered in .com and .net for August. Jumbo was tops for .com and Repair for .net. TaylorSwift was popular in .net. .COM .NET jumbo repair diabetes taylorswift dorian loan claims piedmont airbnb dorian hurricane empower halloween small volume outlet bullet finder tahoe hills
Continue ReadingThe second quarter of 2019 closed with 354.7 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains
Verisign (VRSN NASDAQ) released their Domain Name Industry Brief for Q2 2019. Verisign’s industry brief for the second quarter of 2019 closed with 354.7 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 2.9 million domain name registrations, or 0.8 percent, compared to the first quarter of 2019. .COM AND .NET […]
Continue ReadingTop trending keywords for July – Text,Insurance, Canna
Verisign released their Top Ten trending keywords for July and Text, Glasses and Remote led the way in .com. .COM .NET text insurance glasses wedding remote canna index virtual year rage term mass fee falls papers guru jumbo hard braces lawyer
Continue ReadingTrending keywords in May 2019 include Mushrooms, Coupons and Apple
Verisign reported their trending keywords for May. .Com was about coupons and mushrooms. .Net dealt with abuse, apple and phone. Mushrooms have been getting a lot of press lately, as a potential replacement to antidepressants. https://futurism.com/the-byte/magic-mushrooms-replace-antidepressants .COM .NET coupons abuse coupon apple finest child biochar phone mushroom account trial boy shroom pain pods thai […]
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