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Verisign Increases Domain Fees | Renew Domains Now
Verisign will be increasing the registry fee for .com domains and .net domains beginning July 1, 2010. These are the fees that registrars like GoDaddy, Register.com and others pay. Therefore the cost of a domain may be passed along in one way or another and typically by increasing the domain registration fee. It is advised that you renew domains before July 1. As to the cost Verisign said:
VeriSign announced that as of July 1, 2010, the registry fee for .com domain names will increase from $6.86 to $7.34 and that the registry fee for .net domain names will increase, from $4.23 to $4.65.
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Domain Traffic
Interesting fact about domains in general from Verisign:
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.
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First Non-Latin Character Domains Announced
If you are reading this site in English you may not realize that those using other languages do not have everything, such as domains, available in their native language. ICANN is the governing authority. ICANN was formed in 1998 and stands for the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers just added additional top level domains.
For the first time domains, known as ccTLD or Top Level Domains, will have non-Latin characters. It began this month, May 2010, when these country code top level domains were inserted in the DNS root zone. The countries are
- Egypt: مصر (Egypt)
- Saudi Arabia: السعودية (AlSaudiah)
- United Arab Emirates: امارات (Emarat)
To date there has been a total of 21 requests for new top level domains representing 11 languages. Thirteen of them have successfully passed through what ICANN calls their “String Evaluation” (the second stage of the process) and are ready for the final stage of the process when the requesting country or territory initiates the request for TLD Delegation.
From the ICANN press release, as you can see there is a large population that can benefit from this:
14May2010 | Brian | 1 comment | ContinuedArabic has now become the first non-Latin script to be used as an IDN ccTLD. Arabic is among the most highly used languages on the Internet today. The Middle-East has an average Internet penetration of just over 20%, and shows a big potential for growth. Users in the region will now have easier access to the Internet, with the ability to use their primary language for the entire domain name.
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26Oct2009 | Brian | 4 comments | Continued
184 Million Internet Domain Names
Verisign posted recently that there are 184 Million Internet domain names registered. Of the 184 million domains 74.4 million are ccTLDs, which are country code specific such as .cn for China. Read the entire article at VeriSign’s site.
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