Verisign cites ‘unfair advantage’ by the .CO Registry, files complaint
Verisign, managers of .com and .net domains, filed an ICANN complaint today, citing the ‘unfair advantage‘ of the .CO Registry and .CO domain names. “There is no doubt that the increased popularity of .CO domains is solely due to an artificial, unfair advantage the Registry has established,” said Verisign spokesman, Larry Laffer. “Without its bright [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Verisign releases full printed list of 252 million domains
Verisign, the keepers of the .com and .net around the global Internet, have released supporting documentation regarding the current domain totals. The printed list comes in 125 binders, containing a total of 252,049,152 domain names. “Doing it the old fashioned way, in print, is something that many Fortune 500 executives appreciate,” said Fanny Day of [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Verisign: Didn’t know the US is part of commie North Korea!
Verisign’s profits will sustain a substantial loss, after the terms of renewing the lucrative contract excluded any annual increases in the cost of .com domains. The company stock was down on Friday, but recouped as much as 6.75% today. Company officials were still livid. “Had no idea the US is part of communist North Korea!” [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Verisign to disable Domain registrations on weekends
Verisign – the managers of .com and .net domains – has put a lot of effort in rebuilding its network infrastructure. Still, today’s demand for domain registrations has exceeded all expectations. With more than 100 million .com domains under its control, Verisign is testing a new method to alleviate the stress imposed on its network. [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Verisign safe as thousands left without power
Verisign – the dot com registry – is safe, despite several hundred thousand homes and businesses being left without power in Virginia, due to storms. “Here at Verisign we have multiple back up systems to keep our domain services up and running non stop,” said Matt Black of Verisign. “We have diesel power generators, solar [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Verisign price hike saves you from bad coffee and fat snacks
Verisign – the overlords of the .com domain names – were awarded a six year extension of their lucrative contract, with the option to increase prices by up to 7% in four of those years. However, those that are still skeptical about the constructive role of Verisign, should be aware of all the positive contributions [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Francois scores with DomainScore
A domain name currently owned by Francois – the French domainer entrepreneur behind Domaining.com – has received a lot of interest recently, potentially from no other than Verisign. DomainScore.com – an obvious reference to the value or worth of domain names – is currently on sale at CAX.com which Francois operates. The domain was registered [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Verisign celebrates 17 years in a quiet fashion
Verisign, the domain Registry for dot .com and dot .net domains, celebrated its 17th anniversary on April 12th. There were no parties, fanfare or other glitzy parties reminiscent of the roaring 90′s, when millions were spent by start-ups in lavish demonstrations of paper wealth. The dot com bubble burst, but not before Verisign acquired Network [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons angry about Daytona 500 postponement
GoDaddy founder and Daytona 500 team sponsor, Bob Parsons, is upset over the race’s postponement. GoDaddy sweetheart, Danica Patrick, crashed the GoDaddy car in a wall, during preliminary races last Thursday. “Gosh darn it, this is absolutely preposterous, that God would not grant Danica Patrick her much-deserved win at Daytona 500″, said a livid Bob [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Darth Verisign controls 400,000 ‘dark matter’ domains!
By crawling the Internet’s most remote areas, top WHOIS tool DomainTools has managed to reach into the vault of what appears to be a repository of ‘dark matter‘ domains. Unlike regular domain names that maintain a pair of nameservers, dark matter domains only exist at the Registry with no hope of ever seeing the light [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.i.net: The only Domain Registrar that didn’t raise prices for its customers
With Verisign raising prices for the .COM and .NET domains, domaining turned more expensive for thousands of domainers. “I hate what they did, with a passion”, said Jonas Brik, a domainer from Boston. “Verisign constantly takes my weekly allowance money and pays database admins in Lahore, Pakistan! I now have to ask my father to [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Finally, New York gets a glimpse of Danica Patrick’s legs!
Two days ago we provided a scoop on the new, full page ad of GoDaddy featuring Danica Patrick‘s flesh tones. The ad appeared on the December 23rd edition of USA Today and cost almost a quarter of a million dollars! The New York Times featured the same ad today, as seen at AllThingsDigital. Our scan [...]
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