Is .com’s growing base of registrations about to go negative?
Bidzos, the CEO of .com registry Verisign, was celebrating a better-than-expected third quarter last year. Domain name registrations were higher than normal thanks to emerging markets.
Bidzos and his leadership team thought the short-term boost was over. On an investor conference call, Bidzos said:
During the third quarter, we saw strength in gross additions coming out of emerging and international markets, particularly in Asia. While we believe these markets will continue to perform well, we believe the pace of activity we saw during the third quarter will slow sequentially in the fourth quarter. Also due to seasonal factors, the fourth quarter tends to have fewer net additions than the third quarter, as was seen in the last two years.
He predicted the company would add 1.1 million to 1.6 million .com and .net domain names to the base in Q4 2015 after deletions.
It ended up adding 4.6 million.
Complete article on Domain Name Wire
Bidzos, the CEO of .com registry Verisign, was celebrating a better-than-expected third quarter last year. Domain name registrations were higher than normal thanks to emerging markets.
Bidzos and his leadership team thought the short-term boost was over. On an investor conference call, Bidzos said:
During the third quarter, we saw strength in gross additions coming out of emerging and international markets, particularly in Asia. While we believe these markets will continue to perform well, we believe the pace of activity we saw during the third quarter will slow sequentially in the fourth quarter. Also due to seasonal factors, the fourth quarter tends to have fewer net additions than the third quarter, as was seen in the last two years.
He predicted the company would add 1.1 million to 1.6 million .com and .net domain names to the base in Q4 2015 after deletions.
It ended up adding 4.6 million.
Complete article on Domain Name Wire
