VeriSign Announces Increase in .com/.net Domain Name Fees

VeriSign is known as one of the bigger Internet infrastructure providers. They help consumers as well as companies get in to commerce and communications with confidence. Effective as of July 1, 2010, VeriSign has announced an increase for registry domain names on both .net and .com. The registry fee for .net will increase from $6.86 to $7.34 and the .com fee will go from $4.23 to $4.65.

Our society becomes more and more dependent on digital technology every day. To continue the reliability and security is important that investments in .net and .com keep up with the continued growth of the Internet. In the year 2000 the amount of domain name system (DNS) and the amount of Internet traffic queries on the global infrastructure of VeriSign was around an average of 2 billion queries a day. Today the amount has risen to more than 50 billion queries.

In the years to come, investment from VeriSign will continue to build out the .net and the .com infrastructures. This will help manage the increase in demands on the infrastructure. VeriSign will also continue to fortify and scale the .net and .com structures to protect them from the increasingly amount of cyber attacks.