Verisign gets Whois privacy patent
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted the patent for Systems and Methods for Preserving Privacy of a Registrant ...
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What is Verisign?
Verisign is a global provider of domain name registry services and internet infrastructure. Verisign provides registration services and authoritative resolution for the .com and .net top-level domains, which support the majority of global e-commerce. The company operates two of the 13 global Internet root servers.
Verisign was founded by D. James Bidzos on April 12, 1995 and is headquartered in Reston, VA. For more than 23 years, Verisign has been protecting the DNS infrastructure for over 163.7 million .com and .net domain names and processing more than 219 billion query transactions daily keeping the world connected online.
The domain name registry services and infrastructure company ensures the security, stability and resiliency of key internet infrastructure and services, including the authoritative directory of all .com, .net, .tv, .cc, .name top-level domains and the back-end registry for a portfolio of generic top-level domains.
Recent Verisign News
VeriSign to increase .com price in September
VeriSign announced financial results for the fourth quarter and the fiscal year ended December 31. The company also announced that ...
Verisign receives patent for domain name suggestion and registration via chatbot
Verisign applied for the patent of domain name suggestion and registration via a chatbot in January 2018. At the end ...
The third quarter of 2020 totaled 370.7 million domain name registrations
VeriSign, a global provider of domain name registry services and internet infrastructure, published the Domain Name Industry Brief to provide ...
Neustar to acquire Verisign’s public DNS service
Global information services and technology company, Neustar entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Verisign’s recursive Public DNS service. With ...
ICANN announced the top 10 registrars
ICANN announced the top 10 domain name registrars. The report covers May of 2020 and .com namespace. According to the ...
The second quarter of 2020 closed with 370.1 million domain name registrations
Verisign published the latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief. It shows that the second quarter of 2020 closed ...
Verisign extends the freeze on registry prices
Domain name registry services and internet infrastructure provider, Verisign reported the financial results for the second quarter of 2020. The ...
Verisign announces pilot program against online drug peddlers
The pilot program, announced by Verisign, provides a framework for collaboration between Verisign, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and ...
Verisign grabs domain name suggestion patent
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted the patent which is filed 3 years ago to Verisign. According to the ...
VeriSign reports 2019 results
Domain name registry services and internet infrastructure provider, VeriSign reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full-year 2019. VeriSign ...
Attention! .com domain names’s price may increase
ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has agreed to let Verisign increase prices on .com domain names ...
ICANN and Verisign proposed amendment to .COM Registry Agreement
ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) and Verisign have an agreement to amend the .COM registry Agreement ...
