October 20, 2003
VeriSign sells off domain registrar
VeriSign sells off domain registrar
It's giving up the registrar business, which has become essentially a commodity service in a field in which competition has been heating up. What it's keeping is the registry, recently renamed as VeriSign Naming and Directory Services--and which operates in a field where the company still has a relative monopoly. The registry business, according to VeriSign, is the backbone of a global .com and .net domain name infrastructure that handles over 10 billion interactions per day.
Posted by rshah at October 20, 2003 12:00 PM