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Analysis shows over $2M spent in first half of year on lobbying. Domain name related companies continue to spend millions of dollars lobbying representatives in Washington, a study by Domain Name Wire shows. The analysis used public records filed with the U.S. Senate to calculate lobbying expenses by domain name companies and other companies regarding domain name issues. By far the biggest spender is VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN), which spent $1.4M in the first half of 2009 on “Domain Name Ad

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According to Verisign’s latest Domain Name Industry Brief , there are 177 million domain names across all top-level domains, an increase of 16% (24 million domain names) over a year ago. That’s a lot of .com’s, .net’s, .org’s, and .edu’s – and the numbers continue to grow worldwide. But what if you lost your prime domain name – actually lost your online brand, your trademark, that unique address you’ve worked so hard to nurture all these years? Sure, there’s alway

As required by a new ICANN policy, VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) has notified its registrars about changes to the Add Grace Period policy. These changes were made to limit the practice of “domain tasting”, which is registering a domain and returning it for a refund within the grace period if it doesn’t deliver enough traffic.

Do domain name owners care if VeriSign can drastically increase .com prices? Apparently not. ICANN has released new details about its proposed registry agreement and added a line-by-line comparison to previous registry agreements. These agreements dictate the terms that registries such as VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) must follow as they run top level domains. You can see details of the new information on ICANN’s web site. As written before on Domain Name Wire along with several other domain news s