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VeriSign released the latest issue (PDF file) of its quarterly Domain Industry Brief, providing us with an update on the latest domain statistics. By the end of June 2008, there were more than 168 million registered domains, which represents a growth of 22% over the preceding 12 month period. In terms of registrations, .com remains [...]

Following suit to the recently announced wholesale price increase for .com and .net domains, the wholesale fees for .info and .org domains are going up 2.5 percent in mid-October. The .info increase takes effect on Oct. 15, while .org prices will go up on Oct. 18. As for domain suffix popularity, .org and .info rank [...]

VeriSign, the monopoly registry responsible for .com and .net domain names, announced that effective Oct. 15, 2007, registry fees for .com and .net domains will increase as follows: .com domains: from $6.00 to $6.42 (+7%) .net domains: from $3.50 to $3.85 (+10%) The "registry fee" is the fee that domain registrars such as Network Solutions [...]

VeriSign released the latest issue (PDF file) of its Domain Industry Brief. By the end of 2006, there were more than 120 million registered domains, which represents a growth of 32% over the previous year. In terms of registrations, .com remains the largest top level domain, followed by .de, .net, .uk and .org:

James Altucher of Stockpickr.com believes that there's big money in domain names and he's following the fortunes of companies that are involved in the domain name business. His large cap favorites include VeriSign (VRSN), the monopoly which gets a cut on every .com and .net registration in the world, Google (GOOG), which recently signed a [...]