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Verisign, Inc. is an American company based in Reston, Virginia, that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the .com, .net, and .name generic top-level domains and the .cc country-code top-level domains, and the back-end systems for the .jobs and .edu sponsored top-level domains.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Global Name Registry planned to "transform the .name addresses into a multipurpose tool that can receive e-mail or serve as a virtual credit card". [2] The Global Name Registry launched .name on January 15, 2002. [3] VeriSign, Inc., acquired Global Name Registry on October 1, 2008. [4]
VeriSign primarily manages the domain-name registries for two of the internet's most valuable domains, .com and .net, and also operates two of the world's 13 global internet root servers.
Verisign registrations in the .com domain are processed via registrars accredited by ICANN. The registry accepts internationalized domain names . The domain was one of the original TLDs of the Internet when the Domain Name System was implemented in January 1985, the others being edu , gov , mil , net , org , and int . [ 6 ]
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) is a company which occasionally comes up as a winner or loser in the domain name registration control. The company has issued a statement regarding the pending review ...
When a registrar registers a .com domain name for an end-user, it must pay a maximum annual fee of US$9.59 and for .net the maximum price for one year is set at $9.92 [9] to VeriSign, the registry operator for com, and a US$0.18 annual administration fee to ICANN. Many registrars also offer registration through reseller affiliates.
VeriSign rose 0.9% after Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway disclosed it had increased its stake in the internet domain registry services company. All told, the S&P 500 fell 25.31 points to 5,881 ...
The TLD has been operated since January 1, 2003, by Public Interest Registry, who assumed the task from VeriSign Global Registry Services, a division of Verisign. [4] In November 2019, the Public Interest Registry (PIR) was to be sold by the Internet Society to shell company Ethos Capital for US$1.135 billion. [5]