Verisign Announces Delegation of .Web

Key Terms

dns technical

DNS is the internet’s lookup system that translates human-friendly website names into the numeric addresses computers use, like a phonebook that finds a business by name and returns its street address. Investors care because problems with DNS — outages, hijacks or misconfigurations — can make a company’s website, online sales, customer logins and email inaccessible, potentially harming revenue, reputation and short-term market value.

root zone technical

The root zone is the top-level directory of the internet’s Domain Name System (DNS) that lists top-level domains (like .com, .org, country codes) and the authoritative servers that handle them. It acts like the internet’s master table of contents or a phone book index that helps translate human web addresses into machine-readable locations; changes or disruptions to the root zone can affect the reliability and security of domain name resolution that many businesses depend on.

gtld technical

A gTLD, or generic top-level domain, is the last part of a website address such as .com, .org, or newer endings like .tech or .bank; it sits at the highest level of the internet’s domain name system. For investors, gTLDs matter because they affect branding, online visibility, domain portfolio value, and can influence customer trust and regulatory rules around who may use certain endings—similar to how a store’s location or storefront sign shapes public perception.

tld technical

tld stands for top-level domain, the last part of an internet address (for example ".com", ".org", or a country code like ".uk"). It acts like the final piece of a postal address that signals the neighborhood or jurisdiction of a website, and it matters to investors because the choice of tld can affect a company’s credibility, legal exposure, brand recognition, and how easily customers and regulators find or trust its online filings and disclosures.

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RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN), a global provider of critical internet infrastructure and domain name registry services, today announced that .web has been delegated into the global Domain Name System’s (DNS) root zone, with Verisign as the designated registry operator. The delegation of .web follows the successful resolution of all previous disputes related to the generic top-level domain (gTLD), the details of which are confidential.

Operating the world’s most technically sophisticated and globally distributed gTLD registry infrastructure, Verisign is uniquely positioned to operate .web at the same level of performance and availability that has enabled more than 29 years of 100 percent uninterrupted DNS resolution for .com and .net. With a worldwide channel of registrar partners, and decades of experience leveraging channel relationships to market and distribute TLDs like .com, and .net, Verisign is poised to offer .web as an attractive new domain for TLD registrants across the globe.

With the steady, global growth in reliance on the World Wide Web, identity and security are increasingly important. The .web TLD can offer recognizable names, paired with the security, stability, and resiliency of Verisign’s DNS infrastructure, for businesses and individuals seeking to establish or expand their online identities.

Like all other new gTLDs delegated by ICANN in the 2012 round of ICANN’s New gTLD Program, .web will be governed by ICANN’s Base Registry Agreement and will not be subject to the Cooperative Agreement between Verisign and the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Verisign plans to begin offering .web domain names through its channel partners later this year and will share further details about the planned launch in the coming months.

About Verisign

Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN), a global provider of critical internet infrastructure and domain name registry services, enables internet navigation for many of the world’s most recognized domain names. Verisign helps enable the security, stability, and resiliency of the Domain Name System and the internet by providing root zone maintainer services, operating two of the 13 global internet root servers, and providing registration services and authoritative resolution for the .com and .net top-level domains, which support the majority of global e-commerce. To learn more please visit verisign.com.

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Source: VeriSign, Inc.