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ICANN已于今年4月批准了.com/.net域名管理机构VeriSign, Inc.关于域名价格上涨的申请,从10月14日开始,每个.com/.net域名的注册、续费、转入的价格将上涨约4元(人民币)。
以下是英文原文:
VeriSign Announces Increase in .Com/.Net Domain Name Fees MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – April 5, 2007 – VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the leading provider of digital infrastructure for the networked world,
today announced, effective Oct. 15, 2007, an increase in registry domain name fees for .com and .net,
per its agreements with ICANN.
VeriSign announced that as of Oct. 15, 2007, the registry fee for .com domain names will increase from $6.00 to
$6.42 and that the registry fee for .net domain names will increase,
from $3.50 to $3.85. This will be the first registry fee increase for .com and
.net since the fee structure was put in place by ICANN in 1999.
Since 1999, the volume of Internet traffic and domain name system (DNS) queries on VeriSign’s global infrastructure has increased from an average of 1 billion queries per
day in the year 2000 to nearly 30 billion queries per day today.
Traffic volume continues to increase with the emergence of consumer-driven services, the surge in web-connected wireless devices and the proliferation of DNS-centric technologies and services.
In addition, the .com and
.net infrastructures are continually being fortified and scaled to defend against increasingly
sophisticated cyber attacks. Security exploits have grown by 700 percent since 2000 and
are projected to increase by 50 percent in 2007 and 2008.
To address the increase in both DNS volume and cyber attacks, VeriSign recently
announced a major initiative entitled Project Titan to expand the capacity of its
global Internet infrastructure by ten times by the year 2010. Under Project Titan, |