Verisign acquired .TV Corporation International, and operated the .tv extension from 2001 until 2021. Sedo held an auction for 115 premium names in the extension in 2010. Verisign did not apply to continue when a new contract was negotiated in 2021, and GoDaddy Registry now operate the .tv extension, recently completing the transition.

VeriSign doesn't care how long a registrar holds an expired domain, since they still get paid, if the registrar doesn't delete it in a timely manner; usually within 45 days. Only VeriSign registry can truly delete .com / .net domains, registrars can only request deletion - they can't actually delete them. Once VeriSign acts upon a delete ...

Verisign has announced a 7% increase in .com prices to take effect on September 1, 2023. This follows a similar increase announced in 2022. The wholesale price for .com domains will increase from $8.97 currently to $9.59 after the increase and doesn't include ICANN's 18 cent fee. Ouch!! but looks like old news.

On September 1st, 2023 Verisign, which manages the .COM registry will be increasing wholesale prices for .COM domains. As a result, we need to increase the price of Premium Discount Domain Club .COM domain names from $9.45 to $10.25 to account for this change. This new price will be effective on...

A 99 cent per year price increase won't break the bank, unless we're talking about thousands of domains under ownership. Unfortunately, every year Verisign will increase the base price (what it charges registrars) for .com and .net by 7%, all thanks to ICANN approving its contract without any alternate competitive bidding.

For years even though we posted the actual contract on DotTvNation, there were those using old data insisting the .tv contract was up earlier than the contract actually was. Well here is the real data for all those out there so you know. In 2001, we entered into an amended contractual...

Rich, it's so sad that after 3.5 years you don't understand why it's perfectly reasonable to put these pricetags on these .com domains. You can't even coherently explain what the key issue is in your mind. Are you upset that good .com domains are so expensive? Or are you upset that other...

This latency, in the 1 to 100 milliseconds, means the registrar (Dropcatch) is already ahead of you because as a registrar it has direct access to the EPP registry (Verisign) server, and can therefore skip the intermediary step, resulting in a "create x domain" packet that reaches the verisign server before you.

There’s an important ICANN [public comment period that ends on Tuesday August 2...