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Verisign is an Internet infrastructure service provider. It is based in Reston, VA and was founded in 1995. Verisign runs two of the world's thirteen root servers: a.root-servers.net and j.root-servers.net, which are considered national IT assets by the U.S. Federal government.Verisign's average daily Domain Name System (DNS) query load for the first quarter of 2012 was 66 billion, with a peak of 74 billion; this represents a daily average increase of 4 percent over the previous quarter, while the peak decreased 37 percent.[1] They are the global registry for .com, .net, .cc, .tv, .name, .jobs, .edu, .gov.
Verisign is applying for 14 new gTLDs, 12 of which are foreign language transliterations of .com and .net. They are also providing registry services for 220 New gTLD clients.[2]
References
- ↑ Internet Grows to More than 233 million Domain names In The First Quarter. Market Wire. Published 2012 July 13.
- ↑ VeriSign is backend for 220 new TLD applicants and applies for 14 itself, DomainNameWire.com. Published 26 April 2012.