December 17, 2009 — VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, today announced, effective July 1, 2010, an increase in registry domain name fees for .com and .net, per its agreements with ICANN.

As the economy and society becomes increasingly dependent on digital technology, it is imperative that investment in the underlying infrastructure, including .com and .net, continue to keep pace with the robust growth of the Internet and ensure its continued security and reliability. Over the last decade, the volume of Internet traffic and domain name system (DNS) queries on VeriSign’s global infrastructure has increased from an average of approximately 2 billion queries per day in the year 2000 to more than 50 billion queries per day today while maintaining 100 percent operational accuracy and stability for the last eleven years.

Over the next decade, VeriSign will continue investment to build out the .com and .net infrastructures to manage the increasing demands on the infrastructure brought on by the proliferation of Internet-enabled phones and devices and the emergence of DNS-centric technologies and services. VeriSign also continues to scale and fortify the .com and .net infrastructures globally to defend against increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks.

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The launch plan for the .CO domain name extension has been announced. .CO domains will be available through a select list of accredited partners.

A global Sunrise will take place from April 26 through June 10, allowing eligible trademark holders the right to apply for the .CO domain names corresponding to their marks before registration is open to the general public.

Landrush will occur from June 21 through July 13, and will be open to anyone interested in registering certain high priority domain names. General availability will begin on July 20, opening the .CO domain for registrations on a first-come, first-served basis around the world.

Watch Out this space !

aalpha NET will start accepting Pre-registrations of .CO domains from 15th june 2010 !

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India has registered a total of 1.037 million .com and .net domain names, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB) by VeriSign.

The first quarter of 2010 saw over 193 million domain name registrations across all the Top Level Domain Names (TLDs) — an increase of 11 million domain name registrations as compared to the first quarter of 2009. New .com and .net registrations were added at an average of 2.7 million per month in the first quarter of 2010 for a total of 8.1 million new registrations in the quarter, reveal the findings of the first quarter of 2010 DNIB.

The report also spotlights a new study by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), that gauges the commercial impact of the internet, in conjunction with the 25th anniversary of the first .com domain name registration.

It estimates that the annual global economic benefits of the commercial Internet equals $1.5 trillion — a figure that eclipses the global sales of medicine, investment in renewable energy, and government investment in R&D, combined.

ITIF also estimates that, assuming ecommerce continues to grow just half as fast as it grew between 2005 and 2010, then by 2020, it will add $3.8 trillion to the global economy.

Although online commerce is becoming commonplace worldwide, it’s still more popular in some countries than others.

In assessing 30 nations, ITIF found Denmark, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States lead the rest of the world in shopping, selling, and doing business online.

Source : http://www.verisign.com/in/press/2010/dnib-release.html
http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/over-1-mn-com-net-domain-names-in-india/397640/

As I write this I’m returning from this year’s FutureNet conference in Boston where much of the discussion centered around the twin challenges of dealing with depletion of the IPv4 address space and the growing concern that IPv6 adoption will exacerbate scalability issues within Internet routers. While there was much disagreement about the best way to address these issues, the majority of speakers agreed that despite longer-term route scalability concerns, a migration to IPv6, whether we like or not, is in our immediate future.

Why? Quite simply because the immediate concern among Internet architects is that we’re running out of addresses. Depending on whose estimate you believe, we’ve got another one to two years before Internet service providers have no more addresses to assign, meaning that if you want a new block to support a new facility, or your provider wants to expand its mobile offerings, you, and they, will find that they lack the IPv4 addresses to meet demand.

There are a few options for short-term fixes. One is to create a market for excess IPv4 address space to enable those who have extra space and who today have no incentive to give to sell it to whoever needs it. Another is to increase the use of network address translation to hide private networks behind small numbers of shared public addresses. Both of these create additional concerns: who would manage the market to ensure that large entities don’t gobble up all available address space? And, there is the potential for carrier-grade NAT to disrupt the Internet architecture that’s based on smart end-points and a dumb core.

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