The latest Domain Name Industry Brief spotlights a new study by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. Titled “The Internet Economy 25 Years After .com: Transforming Commerce & Life,” the study draws on a variety of research sources to gauge the commercial impact of the Internet, in conjunction with … [Read more]

I know this is a .tv blog, but I’d like to give a shout out Happy 25th Birthday to our big sibling of sorts — .com. Twenty-five years ago today a company that I understand no longer exists, registered the first .com name: symbolics.com. Five more .com names were registered that year, but we’ve certainly … [Read more]

The Internet added 11 million domain name registrations in the fourth quarter of 2009, reflecting a steady pace of Internet growth a quarter-century after the birth of .com. Those findings and more are featured in the latest Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign, Inc., the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked … [Read more]

No, I don’t mean Reading, ‘Riting and ‘Rithmatic. I mean Registry, Registrar, and Registrant. As I blogged about earlier, I’m fairly new to the VeriSign Naming business, if not the Internet. When I first got here, those three Rs could sometimes be confusing. Based on some of the conversations I’ve had the pleasure of having … [Read more]