By Derek Iwasiuk DomainInformer.com April 10, 2007
VeriSign, Inc. has announced an increase in registry
domain name fees for .com and .net, per its agreements with ICANN, effective Oct. 15, 2007. The registry
fee for .com domain names will increase from $6.00 to $6.42 and that
the registry fee for .net domain names will increase, from $3.50 to
$3.85. This will be the first registry fee increase for .com and .net
since the fee structure was put in place by ICANN in 1999.
Since 1999, the volume of Internet traffic and domain
name system (DNS) queries on VeriSign’s global infrastructure has increased
from an average of 1 billion queries per day in the year 2000 to nearly
30 billion queries per day today. Traffic volume continues to increase
with the emergence of consumer-driven services, the surge in web-connected
wireless devices and the proliferation of DNS-centric technologies and
services. In addition, the .com and .net infrastructures are continually
being fortified and scaled to defend against increasingly sophisticated
cyber attacks. Security exploits have grown by 700 percent since 2000
and are projected to increase by 50 percent in 2007 and 2008.
To address the increase in both DNS volume and cyber
attacks, VeriSign recently announced a major initiative entitled Project
Titan to expand the capacity of its global Internet infrastructure
by ten times by the year 2010. Under Project Titan, over the next
three years VeriSign will increase its daily DNS query capacity from
400 billion queries a day to over 4 trillion queries a day and will
increase the aggregate network bandwidth of its primary resolution centers
around the world from over 20 gigabits per second (Gbps) to greater
than 200 Gbps per second. VeriSign will also expand its deployment of
Regional Internet Resolution Sites to over 100 locations across the
globe by 2010.
VeriSign, Inc., operates digital infrastructure services
that enable and protect billions of interactions every day across the
world’s voice and data networks. Additional news and information about
the company is available at www.verisign.com.
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