Top 10 Trending Keywords in .Com & .Net Registrations in May

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The top 10 trending keywords registered in .com and .net during the month of May 2015 are below. Any surprises?

Top 10 Keyword Registration Trends for .COM and .NET in May 2015
Top 10 Keyword Registration Trends for .COM and .NET in May 2015

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Note: Each list was developed by examining keyword registration growth relative to the preceding month, such that those keywords with the highest percentage of registration growth are being reported on. This method is used to eliminate commonly registered keywords such as “online” and “shop” to provide a true look at monthly trends.

How Will Your Registration Data Be Managed in the Future?

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Benjamin Franklin once said, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” As we consider how Internet domain and address registration data is managed and accessed in a post-WHOIS era, and given the long history of failure in addressing the shortcomings of WHOIS, it is extremely important to start preparing now for the eventual replacement of WHOIS. This is the fundamental purpose of the next Registration Operations Workshop (ROW) that is scheduled for Sunday, July 19, 2015, in Prague, Czech Republic.

ROW 2015-2 will take place at the Hilton Prague hotel, the same venue as the 93rd meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF-93). The workshop will be dedicated to discussion and planning for development and testing deployments of the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP), a recent work product of the IETF that is documented in Request For Comments (RFC) documents 7480, 7481, 7482, 7483, and 7484. RDAP was designed from the beginning to address the many shortcomings of WHOIS, but we have very little experience with early-stage implementations that can be used to inform the policy decisions that need to be made. Additional information about WHOIS and RDAP can be found in my “Where Do Old Protocols Go To Die?” blog post published earlier this year. (more…)

Save the Date: Verisign to host vBSDCon, Sept. 11-13, 2015

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Verisign is excited to announce that we are hosting the second vBSDcon event, taking place Sept. 11-13, 2015, at the Sheraton hotel in Reston, Va. We welcome all members of the various Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) communities, such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and others, to join us for a series of plenary talks, Birds of a Feather (BoF) discussions, educational sessions and best practice conversations, as well as the opportunity to network with one another in person.

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Registration Operations is More Than Just Registering Domain Names

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Perceptions can be difficult to change. People see the world through the lens of their own experiences and desires, and new ideas can be difficult to assimilate. Such is the case with the registration ecosystem. Today’s operational models exist because of decisions made over time, but the assumptions that were used to support those decisions can (and should) be continuously challenged to ensure that they are addressing today’s realities. Are we ready to challenge assumptions? Can the operators of registration services do things differently?

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Verisign Celebrates #30YearsofCOM

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This year marks 30 years since the first .com domain name – Symbolics.com – was registered, and the internet and world as we knew it changed forever. Verisign, the authoritative registry operator of .com, is celebrating its 30th anniversary and the remarkable impact .com has had on the economy and culture.

In the last 30 years, the internet has evolved from an unknown phenomenon used primarily by academics and researchers to a global communication, commerce and information sharing channel that few could imagine life without; in fact, nearly three billion people around the world are online today, and more than $300 billion in U.S. e-commerce sales and over $1.3 trillion in global e-commerce sales rely on the internet.

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