Verisign recently sold their website, logo and some of their products to Symantec the makers of Norton Anti Virus suite of products. If you go to the website now, there is nothin about domain names there anymore, with a single hard to find link going to their new website.
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25 Oldest Currently Registered .Com Domain Names
With the .com turning 25 years old this months a peek at the oldest currently registered .com domain names along with the registration dates, according to VeriSign.
DOMAIN NAME DATE
symbolics.com March 15, 1985
bbn.com April 24, 1985
think.com May 24, 1985
mcc.com July 11, 1985
dec.com September 30, 1985
VeriSign Registers Record Numbers
VeriSign recently announced that it registered a record number of visitors for online sales during the year-end holidays this year. These numbers clearly indicate an increase in traffic on e-commerce sales.Online shoppers saw the VeriSign seal approximately 789 million times, up roughly 50% year over year. VeriSign seals are common fixtures on web pages of leading merchants. The VeriSign Secured Seal indicates that the Web site is secured by SSL encryption and the identity of the business has been authenticated. VeriSign is the authorized directory provider for roughly over 89 million .com, .net, .cc, and .tv domain names.
VeriSign earlier announced an increase in registry domain name fees for .com and .net,
VeriSign to Raise .COM & .NET Prices
VeriSign has recently announced that they will be raising .COM and .NET annual fees as of July 1st, 2010. ICANN has an agreement that VeriSign is allowed to raise their .COM fees by up to 7% per year. VeriSign took advantage of this in the first two years of its contract, raising .COM registration from $6.00 to $6.86. It was assumed that VeriSign would increase its prices every year to maximize profits, but it did not in 2009.
