Verisign to amend latest report on 296 million domains
Verisign shared the latest quarterly report on the total number of domains on the Internet; the latest reported number was 296 million domain names. This number, however, was contested by the XYZ Registry, that cited much larger registration numbers of its XYZ product in recent days. XYZ CEO, Daniel Negari, presented those numbers in the […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domains 2.0 : Verisign extends length, adds underscore in names
Verisign, the managers of dot .com and .net domain names announced the expansion of the aged domain system, introducing two new important features. Aiming at improving both the length and the girth of domain size, Verisign’s implementation of “Domain 2.0” is a masterpiece of efficient coding. “We expanded the domain microcode and its com/net core […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Vote: Is this .XYZ video really ‘disparaging’ towards dot .com domain names?
The news of Verisign filing a lawsuit against the .XYZ registry is quite shocking. Not because of the variety of allegations included, but because Verisign – a behemoth of massive proportions – actually feels threatened by a gTLD registry. The fact is, that there are no good .com domains available to register – at registration […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Registry snafu: Cache of ‘bad domains’ impossible to delete!
A large portfolio of domain names that are characterized by their poor to bad quality, are impossible to delete. Remaining intact for the 57th day at the Registry, the .com and .net domains repeatedly failed to respond to system requests for deletion. Cris Matthews, Domain Deletion manager for Verisign, spoke about the incident, and what […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GoDaddy dinner: Arugula, risotto with salmon and French pastries
The GoDaddy chef cooked a fine three course meal earlier tonight; arugula salad with goat cheese was countered by French onion soup with freshly buttered cheese crispies. Delicious. Washed down with white wine, the finely creamed risotto accompanied a tender salmon fillet, with a happy ending of French pastries, including an ice cold chocolate parfait […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Shocking report: 95% of all domains are parked
Recent data from .com and .net managers, Verisign, unveil a shocking reality of the Internet: only 5% of all domain names are actual web sites. With parked or otherwise “for sale” domains representing 95% of all domain registrations, there’s an important issue right there. “Every damn web site I visit, I see this stupid Sedo […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Article alleges Verisign scouts expiring domains as possible auctionable property
A Verisign IP that visited one of our domain names which expires in a few months, turned up in an article delivering some interesting allegations. The IP was included on a list of Verisign IP ranges, which according to the post perform the following task: “This is Verisigns ips-agent bot. What this does is index […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Verisign’s gTLD report is unreliable, thanks to .XYZ ‘wizardry’
Verisign’s data release on gTLD distribution, titled “Website Usage Analysis in the New gTLDs” provides some insight about what the heck is going on in the world of gTLD domain names. The data analysis uses the methodology described below, to identify the status of gTLD domains (developed/parked) after registration: “Our analysis also found the most […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Breaking: Thousands of deleted domains recovered in operation ‘Domain Freedom’
Thousands of deleted domains believed to have been forever lost, were recovered Sunday morning in an unprecedented technological breakthrough. Domains registered as back as 1987, were restored in the master boot records of the registry, Verisign; the effort of microcode restoration lasted four months, in an operation dubbed ‘Domain Freedom‘. “We can definitely say […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Verisign: Mike Mann registered all remaining .com domains!
An updated report from Verisign, long-term stewards of the .com and .net TLDs, showed a remarkable growth of .com domains overnight. With more than 271 million domains in existence at the end of 2013, Verisign’s digital assets are now twice as many as the day before yesterday. “Someone registered more than 200 million .com domains […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Verisign: 271 million registered Domain Names worldwide at the end of 2013
Verisign – keepers of the vault for the .com and .net TLDs – announced today that during the last quarter of 2013, five million domain names were added, for a current total of 271 million domain names. They also published an infographic on these numbers, that you can download in PDF format. The press release […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.WP Archive: ‘Obama administration joins critics of U.S. nonprofit group that oversees Internet’
A Washington Post article from exactly three years ago, titled “Obama administration joins critics of U.S. nonprofit group that oversees Internet” delivers some important insight about the US government’s concerns related to the ICANN’s pressure to surrender oversight of key Internet functions. “The California nonprofit organization that operates the Internet’s levers has always been a […]
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