Verisign reported financial results for the second quarter to end 30 June 2011 with reported revenue of $190 million for the quarter, up five per cent from the prior quarter and up 13 per cent from the same quarter in 2010. Verisign Registry Services ended the quarter with 110 million active domain names in the adjusted zone for .COM and .NET, representing an eight per cent increase year-over-year. In the second quarter of 2011, Verisign processed 8.1 million new domain name registrations, representing a two per cent increase year-over-year. Other highlights of the report relating to domain names included: On May 11, 2011, Verisign announced that it had entered into a Settlement Agreement and Mutual Release with the Coalition for ICANN Transparency, Inc. (CFIT), CFIT’s members and specified related parties that resolved the over five year long CFIT litigation On June 28, 2011, Verisign announced that ICANN and Verisign have renewed Verisign’s contract to serve as the authoritative registry operator for the .NET registry for another six years On 14 July, 2011, Verisign announced that as of 15 January, 2012, the registry fee for .COM domain names will increase from $7.34 to $7.85 and that the registry fee for .NET domain names will increase from $4.65 to $5.11, the maximum possible under the registry agreement with ICANN. The full Verisign news release with further details of the financial results is available here .

The registry fee for .COM and .NET domain names will increase from $7.34 to $7.85 and $4.65 to $5.11 respectively on 15 January 2012 VeriSign, the registry for both TLDs, announced. The increases are a smidgen under the maximum possible under the registry agreement with ICANN – seven per cent for .COM and ten per cent for .NET. The last increase was on 1 July 2010 when the registry fee for .COM domains increased from $6.86 to $7.34 and for .NET domains increased from $4.23 to $4.65. In justifying the increases, VeriSign said in a statement that: “Continued strong global Internet usage growth, along with increasingly powerful distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks leveled against all parts of the Internet’s critical infrastructure, have dramatically increased the demands on Internet infrastructure providers such as Verisign. In the last five years, the volume of Domain Name System (DNS) queries on Verisign’s global Internet infrastructure has more than doubled, increasing to an average daily query load of 57 billion in the first quarter of 2011. Future growth is expected to occur at an even faster pace. Verisign’s infrastructure has maintained 100 percent operational security, accuracy and stability for more than a decade due to continued innovation and investment in the infrastructure.” To avoid the increases, registrants are able to register their .COM and .NET domains before 15 January. To register your .COM and .NET domain names, check out America Registry here .

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The first step to the procedure of online marketing is selecting a perfect domain. It is surely not a very complicated task, but, it does demand due consideration. Moreover, although it might not affect your search engine rankings, it is actually your identity for both search engines and users. A domain name is an identification mark of a business online. For this reason only, having an appropriate domain name is the first basic requirement of any brand, entering the world of Internet. So let us now consider some vital ways of choosing the perfect web address.

While shopping for your perfect domain name, always try to pick up the top level and the regional domain name. One should consider other country domain name extension only if his/her business is pertinent in that regions. Secondly, you must think about short domain names as they are easy to catch and remember for your targeted visitors. Otherwise, if in case you do not get a short name domain name; try to have a memorable and likable domain name that easily stays in the memory of the visitors. Another similar thing that you have to keep in mind is avoiding difficult spelling terms in your domain name.

It is believed that inclusion of keywords in your domain name works wonder. Often this helps in generating new visitors, who browse through the search engine for something that you deal with. Hence, before creating your domain name, ensure to create a list of your popular keyword and if in case, you find a domain name with a highly searched keyword then you your site will surely have a good ranking on search engines. A good keyword in the domain name makes it additionally ‘search engine friendly’.

Fourthly, we need to talk about the usability of Hyphens in domain name. Hyphen is generally used between two words to clarify that they are two different keywords. This technique makes your site search engine responsive. However, it may turn against you if your potential customer skips the hyphens and land on a different site or on a competitor’s website. Fifth important thing you have to take into consideration is utilization of plural words. Often happens that on unavailability of a particular domain name, your registrar try to offer you plural of that word. However, this is not a very fruitful technique and is offered advised by the experienced webmasters to away from plurals.

Instead of using plurals, another thing that you may try is using your popular product in your company and then register that product name as a domain name as well. And finally, take initiatives to check and make sure that you are not intervening in any domain name trademarks while signing up for a domain name. This is quite an important job to execute as negligence of it might cause troubles of fraudulence and forgery in future.