Legacy gTLDs

CNNIC and Verisign signed on April 19 an agreement for the real name verification service of Verisign’s .COM and .NET top-level domains. Aiming to the healthy development of the Chinese domain name industry, CNNIC will provide …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) today reported financial results and details about .com and .net registrations and renewals for the first quarter of 2016. Business Highlights: Verisign Registry Services added 2.65 million net new names during …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of March 2016 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry.. “Trump” made the list once again at number …

ChopChop.domains did an interview with Daniel Chen, Chairman at 190.com, that bought nearly 7,000 LLLL.com domains names for almost $20 million dollars. The video interview was conducted on the 22nd of March 2016. Mr. Chen …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET during the month of February 2016 were published by Verisign. “Trump” is the only common keyword in the 2 lists. I am not so sure …

The report shows that .com is used as top level domain by 49.6% of all the websites. The only two New gTLDs that are used in more than 0.1% of websites are .xyz and .club. …

Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org, .ngo and .ong domains, today announced the upcoming issuance of a Request for Information for the procurement of its back-end registry services. Afilias, the current PIR …

VeriSign reported domain name business and financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2015. Business Highlights: Verisign Registry Services added 4.6 million net new names during the fourth quarter, ending with 139.8 …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET during the month of January 2016 were published by Verisign. China related domain names dominate the .com list. “Smith” and “Lock” are the only common …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET during the month of December 2015 were published by Verisign. “Fang” is the only common keyword in the 2 lists. Is December a big month …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced that approximately 3.1 million domain names were added to the Internet in the third quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to approximately 299 million worldwide across all …