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VeriSign Smashes Registration Records, Then Drops a Price Hike Bombshell for .COM Owners
Path: News / World

The guardian of .COM and .NET just posted stellar first-quarter numbers. But domain holders might want to sit down before reading the fine print. Best Quarter in Five Years VeriSign, the administrator of the world’s two most popular domain zones, reported financial results for Q1 2026. The company logged 11.5 million new registrations across .COM and .NET – the highest since the first half of 2021. Someone clearly forgot to tell the internet that domains were supposed to be a mature market. Including...

Modified: 04/25/2026