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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.
WHOIS (pronounced as the phrase "who is") is a query and response protocol that is used for querying databases that store an Internet resource's registered users or assignees.
On January 19, 2023 ICANN opened voting on a global amendment to all its registry and registrar agreements. In it they defined a RDAP Ramp-Up Period of 180 days starting with the effectiveness of this amendment. 360 days after this period is defined as the WHOIS Services Sunset Date, after which it is not a requirement for registries and registrars to offer a WHOIS service and instead only a ...
Berkshire Hathaway increased its stake in VeriSign to $2.7 billion, becoming its largest shareholder. VeriSign, founded in 1995, is known for its high profit margin and ranks fifth in the S&P 500.
Another filing in early January disclosed that Berkshire had scooped up more shares of domain name registry service and internet infrastructure provider Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) at the end of 2024.
When a registrar registers a com domain name for an end-user, it must pay a maximum annual fee of US$7.34 to VeriSign, the registry operator for com, and a US$0.18 annual administration fee to ICANN. Most domain registrars price their services and products to address both the annual fees and the administration fees that must be paid to ICANN.
VeriSign's primary business involves managing the domain-name registries for two of the internet's most valuable domains, .com and .net. ... VeriSign processed 9.3 million new domain name ...
Verisign was the outsourced operator for .name since the .name launch in 2002 and acquired Global Name Registry in 2008. [1] In late September 2007, security researchers accused Global Name Registry of harboring hackers by charging fees per WHOIS lookup. [2]