By Josh Beckerman
Verisign renewed its registry agreement with the Internet Corporation for assigned names and numbers for .net domains through June 30, 2029.
The agreement has no changes to material terms, Verisign said in a securities filing. Verisign maintains the obligation to collect a 75-cent fee on ICANN’s behalf for each .net domain name.
In 2020, Verisign and ICANN reached an extension for .com domains in 2020.
The company said June 8 that the first quarter closed with 354 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains, up 1% from the fourth quarter. As of March 31, the .com domain name base totaled 161.6 million registrations, with 13.2 million for the .net domain name base.
Verisign plans to launch a .web domain, which has been the subject of a dispute with Altanovo.
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