Tag archive: Verisign

Under the terms of a new contract with ICANN, VeriSign will continue operating the .net top-level Internet domain through the year 2017. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, although terms of the agreement are reportedly in line with the company's existing contract to operate .net—meaning they can choose to raise the cost of a .net domain by up to 10 percent per calendar year. The .net domain is the third most-popular… Read More

The Internet may have run out of IPv4 address space earlier this year, but that doesn't seem to have put any damper on the worldwide market for Internet domains. According to a new Domain Name Industry Brief from VeriSign (PDF) at the end of the first quarter of 2011 the total number of top-level domains registered around the world was over 209.8 million, an increase of 4.5 million (or 2.2 percent) over the fourth quarter alone. Overall,… Read More

Symantec has always been a company that believes in growing through acquisitions, and now the company is making a big one: Symantec has announced it will be paying $1.28 billion to acquire VeriSign's Web security business, including the company's SSL security services for securing online transactions, along with public key infrastructure and identify management and verification services. The move is a major play for Symantec, which… Read More

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion spend much of the latter part of 2008 trying to take over encryption developer Certicom—only to have the company seemingly poached out from under them in late January by Verisign. Although Certicom signed a deal to be acquired by Verisign, RIM apparently believes money can talk—it has gone back to Certicom with a new offer that's nearly twice as rich as the original proposal…and… Read More

In late 2008, BlackBerry maker RIM was all set to take over Canadian security software firm Certicom…but right at the end of the year things suddenly got strange with Certicom claiming RIM's bid to take over the company was too low. Now, VeriSign has swooped in and inked its own takeover deal for Certicom, in a transaction valued at about $73 million…or, really, about $40 million once Certicom's cash-on-hand and… Read More

Domain registrar and net infrastructure operator VeriSign announced today that it will raise the fees for registering .com and .net domains by $0.40 beginning October 1, 2008. The fee increases are allowed under Verisign's agreement with ICANN; under that agreement, Verisign can raise fees for .com domain registration in four of the six years between 2006 and 2012. The new fees for registering a .com domain will be $6.86; a .net… Read More

Internet giant VeriSign is known to most Internet users as a domain registrar, and perhaps also as the company which actually managed the heavily-populated .com and .net top-level domains through some controversial contracts with the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Now, the company has announced it plans to undergo a strategic re-alignment, selling off business units where it's not the clear leader in… Read More

VeriSign, the company which manages the popular .com and .net top-level domains, has announced that it will raise prices for registering and renewing in the .com and .net spaces beginning October 15, 2007. Wholesale prices for .com domains will go up 10 percent to $6.42, while wholesale prices for .net domains will go up 10 percent to $3.85. In all probability, these increases will be passed along to domain owners directly by their… Read More

If you thought the digital video marketplace wasn't already crowded enough, with several operations already up and running and several more looking to enter the market…the scene just gained onemore competitor, with AxiomTV entering into a partnership with domain registar VeriSign to offer a family-friendly digital video service distributed via VeriSign's Intelligent Content Delivery Network (CDN). VeriSign's CDN is… Read More

The board of director of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has voted to approve a new deal with registrar VeriSign which keeps the company in place as the registrar the Internet's .com top-level domain through at least the year 2012, and maybe even longer. Under the agreement, VeriSign will retain control of the .com registry through 2012, with the possibility of renewal. VeriSign will also be permitted… Read More

The Internet Corporation of Assigned Numbers and Names (ICANN), the closest thing the Internet has to a governing body, and giant registration and service provider VeriSign have posted a revised edition of their settlement agreement which, in addition to resolving their dispute over VeriSign's Site Finder service, would limit price increases which can be imposed by VeriSign on .com domain registrations and renewals. ICANN and… Read More

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names (ICANN) and registration services provider VeriSign have reached a tentative agreement to end their long-standing lawsuits against each other over how VeriSign resolves non-existent domain names for top-level domains it controls, like .com and .net. The agreement must still be approved by ICANN's board after a period of public comment; you can see both ICANN's and… Read More

From the Verisign press release: VeriSign, Inc. and Cox Communications today announced that Cox has implemented VeriSign NetDiscoveryServices to help ensure compliance of its Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)-based cable telephony services with the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). Cox Communications launched its 12th telephony market in December 2003 in Roanoke, Va., and its first using VoIP technology.… Read More

From VeriSign's press release: VeriSign, Inc. today announced that it will work with Microsoft Corp. to deliver authentication services that combine Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with VeriSign's strong authentication services. These services will significantly decrease the cost and complexity of deploying strong authentication across the enterprise. VeriSign will demonstrate this technology, which will go into Beta in April… Read More

These processors set a new precedent for world-class performance and breadth and scale of systems. This builds on the broad choice of software and operating systems and architectural strengths that have made Intel processors the choice for the majority of server deployments. “The combination of our two enterprise architectures has addressed the diverse needs of enterprise computing from top to bottom,” said Paul Otellini, Intel… Read More