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ICANN grants Verisign its price increases, of course

ICANN has given Verisign its ability to increase .com prices by up to 7% a year, despite thousands of complaints from domain owners. The amendments give Verisign the right to raise prices in each of the last four years of its six-year duration. The cur...

March 30, 2020 Kevin Murphy Domain Registries, Namecheap, price caps, registry agreement

Verisign tries to discredit ICANN commenting period process

Company suggests that drawing attention to comment period distorted the multistakeholder process. The comment period for ICANN’s proposed .com contract amendment with ICANN closed last Friday. The amendment would allow Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) to increase prices in the future in 4 out of 6 years. Among the thousands of comments was one from Verisign itself […]

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February 19, 2020 Andrew Allemann .com prices, nasdaq: vrsn, Policy & Law

9,000 people tell ICANN they don’t want .com price increases. Here’s what some of them said

The public have spoken: they don’t want Verisign to get the right to raise .com prices again. ICANN’s public comment period on the amended .com contract closed on Friday, with just shy of 9,000 comments which appear to be overwhelmingly aga...

February 17, 2020 Kevin Murphy Domain Registries, price caps

January’s top domain name news stories

Looking back at last month in domains. There was a lot of news in the domain name industry last month. Here’s a look at the top five posts on Domain Name Wire ranked by the number of pageviews. 1. This company’s domain name is a ten digit domain! – Using your telephone number as a […]

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February 12, 2020 Andrew Allemann .quest, california attorney general, google search

ICA will help you support .com price increases (but doesn’t want you to)

The Internet Commerce Association has released a new version of its semi-automated commenting tool, making it a bit easier for domainers and others to complain to ICANN about the proposed .com price increases. Surprisingly, the tool will also help you ...

February 10, 2020 Kevin Murphy Domain Registries, price caps

BREAKING: Verisign pays ICANN $20 million and gets to raise .com prices again

Verisign is to get the right to raise the price of .com domains by 7% per year, under a new contract with ICANN. The deal, announced this hour, will also see Verisign pay ICANN $20 million over five years, starting in 2021, “to support ICANN&#821...

January 3, 2020 Kevin Murphy abuse, consolidate, Domain Registries, pics, registry agreement

Q3 industry growth driven by .tk, .com and .icu

The domain name industry grew by 5.1 million names in the third quarter, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief from Verisign. September ended with 359.8 million names across the board, the DNIB (pdf) shows. Half of the growth came from Tok...

December 20, 2019 Kevin Murphy .tk, .tw, dnib, Domain Registries, ICU, Versign

China loves .Com

Kassey Lee examines the market for .com domain names in China. In my series of articles to study the Chinese domain market, I have already covered the big picture and .cn. Today, let’s look at .com. This analysis is based on data I have collected from China Internet Network Information Center reports published since 1997. […]

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December 11, 2019 Kassey Lee Uncategorized

Verisign likely to get its billion-dollar .com pricing windfall

Verisign and ICANN appear to be on the verge of signing a new .com registry contract that could prove extremely lucrative for the legacy gTLD company. Speaking to analysts following the announcement of Verisign’s third-quarter results late last w...

October 28, 2019 Kevin Murphy cooperative agreement, Domain Registries, NTIA, ra

After .org price outrage, ICANN says it has NOT scrapped public comments

ICANN this evening said that it will continue to open up gTLD registry contract amendments for public comment periods, despite posting information yesterday suggesting that it would stop doing so. The organization recently formalized what it calls &#82...

October 11, 2019 Kevin Murphy Domain Policy, gdd, price caps, public comment, public interest registry, ra, raa, rsep

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