Neowin News Feed for: Verisign

Report: U.S. government can seize any .com domain

John Callaham — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:29:12 +0000

A new report claims that the US government has the right to seize any .com domain name, even those hosted and owned by overseas companies, due to the domains being managed by the US-based VeriSign. Read more...

Nearly 210 million Internet domains registered in first quarter of 2011

John Callaham — Tue, 31 May 2011 19:15:27 +0000

Earlier this year the Internet ran out of IPv4 addresses. Technically, that means that there is no more address space to give out on the Internet, even though ISPs are using techniques to keep the... Read more...

Happy Birthday .com, 25 years old today

Tom Warren — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:17:10 +0000

25 years ago today a computer manufacturer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts called Symbolics, Inc. was the first to register a .com address on March 15, 1985. A year later and only five other companies had registered... Read more...

Microsoft Has Verisign Revoke Atsiv Certificate

Christopher Vendemio — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:36:39 +0000

Microsoft Corp. last week slammed the door on a free utility out of Australia that outflanked one the company's touted security features in Windows Vista by having the program's digital certificate revoked. LinchpinLabs' Atsiv utility,... Read more...

VeriSign to offer passwords on bank card

Tom Warren — Tue, 01 May 2007 06:58:40 +0000

A leading provider of digital-security services wants to make disposable passwords easier for consumers to accept by squeezing the technology into the corner of a regular credit or ATM card. Fran Rosch, vice president for... Read more...

VeriSign plans domain price hike

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:10:27 +0000

Verisign has the right to raise hosting costs 7% in four of the next six years after a December extension of a 1999 deal with ICANN granted the company control of the .com domain through... Read more...

VeriSign Offers Hackers $8,000 Bounty on Vista, IE 7 Flaws

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:14:31 +0000

Thanks to ThePitt for posting this in BPN. VeriSign's iDefense Labs is offering money for remote code execution holes in Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7 as a part of its pay-for-flaw VCP (Vulnerability Contributor... Read more...

VeriSign Issues IE7 Extended Validation SSL Certificate

Steven Parker — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:35:56 +0000

New Groundbreaking EV UpgraderTechnology Will Enable All IE7 Browsers on Microsoft Windows XP Client Systems to Also Display the Green Address Bar VeriSign), the leading provider of intelligent infrastructure for the networked world, today announced... Read more...

VeriSign Retains .com Domain Till 2012

Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:58:02 +0000

VeriSign Inc. said on Monday it would maintain control of the lucrative ".com" Internet domain until 2012 in return for dropping an antitrust lawsuit against the nonprofit body that oversees the Internet's addressing system. ... Read more...

Is VeriSign Up To Running The .Net Registry?

Fri, 04 Feb 2005 19:39:54 +0000

Later this year, a company will be selected to run the .net domain on the internet. VeriSign has operated the .net registry since 2001 alongside the .com registry. However, exactly how certain it is that... Read more...

VeriSign Antitrust Claim Against ICANN Dismissed

Fri, 21 May 2004 12:24:06 +0000

VeriSign spokesperson Brian O'Shaughnessy told TechNewsWorld that the dismissal of the antitrust claim involved only one of seven claims from VeriSign in the case. "It is the antitrust claim, which has a high level of... Read more...

Sex.com, VeriSign settle domain name suit

Tue, 20 Apr 2004 19:59:15 +0000

The original owner of the Sex.com domain name has settled his lawsuit against VeriSign, ending a protracted battle over the transfer of the domain. The settlement comes roughly nine months after the U.S.... Read more...

Domain registrars sue ICANN, VeriSign

Sat, 28 Feb 2004 08:21:31 +0000

One day after being sued by VeriSign Inc. over delays in approving a new service for back-ordering Internet domain names, the organization that controls the Internet's domain naming system is now being sued by a... Read more...

VeriSign sues ICANN

Fri, 27 Feb 2004 00:50:41 +0000

Internet infrastructure company VeriSign Inc sued a domain-name oversight body on Thursday, saying it had overstepped its authority when it prevented VeriSign from introducing new Web-address services. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names... Read more...

VeriSign strikes Microsoft authentication deal

Wed, 25 Feb 2004 20:23:42 +0000

Security and billing applications maker VeriSign said Wednesday that it established a new partnership with Microsoft to build authentication services based on the software giant's Windows Server 2003 product line. VeriSign says... Read more...

VeriSign to operate RFID directory

Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:00:59 +0000

EPCglobal, the industry organisation overseeing development of US standards for radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology, has selected VeriSign to operate the root directory of RFID product codes. Security software and services provider VeriSign operates... Read more...

VeriSign to implement change to .com and .net

Fri, 09 Jan 2004 17:36:29 +0000

Here's more of VeriSign to spice up your daily lives! VeriSign Inc. is planning a change to a Domain Name System component responsible for coordinating updates to the .com and .net domains... Read more...

VeriSign buys managed security firm

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:42:07 +0000

The Web address firm will shell out $140m for Guardent, as it seeks to expand into computer security. Internet services and Web address provider VeriSign will acquire Guardent for $140m (Â£80m) in cash and stock,... Read more...

VeriSign fends off critics at ICANN confab

Wed, 08 Oct 2003 01:53:16 +0000

David Schairer, vice president of broadband provider XO Communications, is frustrated by VeriSign's decision to redirect Web surfers who mistype domain names to its own advertising-based Web site. At an unprecedented public... Read more...

VeriSign shuts down Web site finder

Michael Stanclift — Sat, 04 Oct 2003 05:43:26 +0000

Web address provider VeriSign Inc. said on Friday it would suspend a controversial new service that steers mistaken Web searches to its own page after the organization that oversees Internet policies demanded it do so.... Read more...

VeriSign Sued Over Controversial Web Service

Fri, 19 Sep 2003 04:57:46 +0000

An Internet search company on Thursday filed a $100 million antitrust lawsuit against VeriSign Inc., accusing the Web address provider of hijacking misspelled and unassigned Web addresses with a service it launched this week. VeriSign's... Read more...

Verisign owns .net, .com...

Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:53:21 +0000

In the last few hours, it would appear that Verisign has taken its monopoly to the next level, which in many aspects blows what Microsoft has done out of the water. Previously, when you typed... Read more...

Microsoft, VeriSign ink security deal

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 03 Jun 2003 08:22:33 +0000

Microsoft and VeriSign plan to announce on Tuesday that they will work together to offer secure Web services and enhanced digital rights management. The deal builds on technology in Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 that allows... Read more...

ICANN raises concerns over VeriSign IDN change

Wed, 08 Jan 2003 10:04:57 +0000

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on Tuesday expressed concerns regarding a service launched last Friday by VeriSign Inc. designed to handle internationalized domain names (IDNs). According to ICANN, "some... Read more...

VeriSign to resurrect Network Solutions

Michael Stanclift — Mon, 06 Jan 2003 05:10:47 +0000

Global Internet services company VeriSign Inc. plans to announce today that it will open a Herndon subsidiary to handle its domain name retailing business. The subsidiary, Network Solutions Inc., has the same... Read more...

VeriSign tidies records after ICANN rebuke

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 21 Sep 2002 08:06:20 +0000

VERISIGN SAID THIS week that it has corrected database inaccuracies flagged by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) earlier this month, after the regulatory body threatened to strip the leading U.S. registrar... Read more...

GoDaddy.com warns its users of Verisign trick

Mon, 25 Mar 2002 10:27:36 +0000

Thanks Joe for sending this in. Jail has put up an interesting article at NewsGeek. This is a snip of what he said: "I received this email from GoDaddy.com. If you haven't... Read more...

Hackers Deface Thousands Of Domains Parked At Verisign

Thu, 21 Mar 2002 03:56:06 +0000

A security breach Tuesday involving Verisign's Network Solutions unit disrupted potentially thousands of domain customers, company officials confirmed today. Attackers compromised a system that hosted thousands of "parked" domains that had been... Read more...

IBM, Verisign edge toward security pact

Sat, 19 Jan 2002 11:03:24 +0000

In a major endorsement of security across its wares, IBM is working with VeriSign on a joint product development and sales deal that would marry VeriSign's authentication and payment services technology to Big Blue's hardware... Read more...

VeriSign gobbles up .tv for $45m

Mon, 07 Jan 2002 16:28:33 +0000

Internet address and security provider VeriSign said on Monday it bought exclusive worldwide registry rights for ".tv" Web addresses, paying $45 million for .tv Corp International. VeriSign said it expects the cash... Read more...

VeriSign launches brand, domain protection services

Fri, 07 Dec 2001 13:15:00 +0000

VeriSign Inc. launched a new suite of brand management services Thursday to help companies protect their brands and trademarks online from cybersquatters and other digital foes. The Digital Brand Management Services offer... Read more...