Original press release goes below.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Dec 17, 2009 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX News Network) — VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, today announced, effective July 1, 2010, an increase in registry domain name fees for .com and .net, per its agreements with ICANN.

VeriSign announced that as of July 1, 2010, the registry fee for .com domain names will increase from $6.86 to $7.34 and that the registry fee for .net domain names will increase, from $4.23 to $4.65.

As the economy and society becomes increasingly dependent on digital technology, it is imperative that investment in the underlying infrastructure, including .com and .net, continue to keep pace with the robust growth of the Internet and ensure its continued security and reliability. Over the last decade, the volume of Internet traffic and domain name system (DNS) queries on VeriSign’s global infrastructure has increased from an average of approximately 2 billion queries per day in the year 2000 to more than 50 billion queries per day today while maintaining 100 percent operational accuracy and stability for the last eleven years.

Over the next decade, VeriSign will continue investment to build out the .com and .net infrastructures to manage the increasing demands on the infrastructure brought on by the proliferation of Internet-enabled phones and devices and the emergence of DNS-centric technologies and services. VeriSign also continues to scale and fortify the .com and .net infrastructures globally to defend against increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks.

About VeriSign

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) is the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world. Billions of times each day, VeriSign helps companies and consumers all over the world engage in communications and commerce with confidence. Additional news and information about the company is available at www.verisign.com.

Trademarks

VeriSign, and other trademarks, service marks, and logos are registered or unregistered trademarks of VeriSign and its subsidiaries in the United States and in foreign countries.

Copyright Copyright 2009 VeriSign, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Statements in this announcement other than historical data and information constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as amended. These statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause VeriSign’s actual results to differ materially from those stated or implied by such forward-looking statements. The potential risks and uncertainties include, among others, the uncertainty of future revenue and profitability and potential fluctuations in quarterly operating results due to such factors as increasing competition and pricing pressure from competing services offered at prices below our prices, market acceptance of our existing services and the current global economic downturn, the inability of VeriSign to successfully develop and market new services, VeriSign’s ability to build out its infrastructure in pace with demand, the uncertainty of whether new services as provided by VeriSign will achieve market acceptance or result in any revenues and the uncertainty of the expense and duration of transition services and requests for indemnification relating to completed divestitures. More information about potential factors that could affect the Company’s business and financial results is included in VeriSign’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K. VeriSign undertakes no obligation to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this press release.

Original source: https://investor.verisign.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=431292

World Wide Web is soon going to become the Wild Wild Web where the fast guys rule. According to Google’s engineer Matt Cutts the search giant is inclined to introduce a new ranking factor into its algorithm — site speed. Once that happens, your site load time will have a direct impact on your Google rankings.

If you’re a fast site, maybe you should get a little bit of a bonus. If you really have an awfully slow site, then maybe users don’t want that as much , says Cutts.

Google is pushing towards a faster web where web pages can be turned as quickly as those of a print magazine. If your site doesn”t catch up with the pace it doesn”t belong on the first page of search results.

When will Site Speed Become a Ranking Factor?

Google’s already using load speed as a Quality Score factor in its paid search platform AdWords, where advertisers with faster web pages pay less. It”s hard to tell for sure when site speed factor will be officially brought into organic search though. Some experts believe it already has an effect on rankings and Google will give it more weight. Google says speed is yet to become a factor in the ranking algo.

Anyway, it seems reasonable for Google to introduce the new factor together with the new search architecture known as Google Caffeine which is to be rolled out after the holidays (early 2010). Google wants Caffeine to be faster. Higher speed will be hard to achieve with slow sites ranking in top 10, so it makes perfect sense for Google to apply the site speed factor in Caffeine.

Check Your Website Load Time

If your site depends on Google rankings for traffic and sales (which is true for a vast majority of sites) you should be ready for any change in the game, big or small. Taking action before the change even happens is a key to the prosperity of your business.

The new version of WebSite Auditor lets you quickly check your site speed and compare it against your top ten competitors. Doing this is easy as ever with SEO PowerSuite tools. You simply specify your website or web page address and the keyword(s) you’re targeting. WebSite Auditor then finds your top 10 competitors for the keyword and compares your site against them in a variety of ways:

• Keyword use and density in all page elements.
• Most popular keywords and keyphrases on your and competing webpages.
• Problem areas in your content, etc.

And now it also lets you check your site”s load time. If you click through to the Report Tab you’ll see a special Site Load Time section closer to the end of the report. In it you get all the information you need to check whether your site is fast enough to rank in the top 10 of Google.

Download free version of Website Auditor and check your site speed now!

The tools you will find in the package:

• Keyword Suggestion.  Search our database for related keywords, put them through detailed competitiveness analysis and pick out the best choices for your site.
• Optimization Advice and Environment. Get a clear, detailed and exact advice on how to tweak a web page for your keyword then apply this advice in a specialized page editor.
• Search Engine Submission. Auto-submit the optimized pages to major search engines around the world. Also, facilitate manual submissions through a friendly interface.
• Ranking Check. Get comprehensive ranking reports for multiple engines and keywords. Collect ranking history and build trends. Industry safest human emulation techniques ensure you will not be banned by the search engines for automated queries.
• Link Popularity Analysis. Analyze how many links you get from other sites and how good these links are for your rankings. Research your competition and top sites and spy their linking strategy.
• Traffic Analysis. Collect accurate statistics of referring keywords and engines, link partners, ad campaigns, visitors and their navigation, popular pages etc. — anything you need to manage and improve your web marketing activities.
• Partner Finder . A powerful tool that helps look for potential link exchange partners, evaluate their websites and manage your correspondence with the website owners.
• PPC Campaigns Manager . A tool that allows you to take control of your paid search campaigns: register new accounts with the PPC search engines, and easily manage existing ones.

Other Tools Included:

• FTP Manager — to quickly save changes to the hosting server
• Site Auditor — to troubleshoot any possible site errors
• Site Uptime Monitoring Service — to get alerted when your site is down.

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When you know each change in your rankings you’re able to figure out which activities are the most profitable for you. You can notice mistakes and take quick action to correct them.

With Rank Tracker tool from SEO PowerSuite this is absolutely easy. First it finds the most profitable keywords for you, and then you keep all the good keywords in Rank Tracker project and conveniently track where you rank for each of them. It will only take you a couple of minutes daily to check your website rankings in Google, Yahoo! Bing, Ask or any other search engine you choose.

Use Rank Tracker to know where you’re ranking for each of your targeted keywords, keep ranking history for weeks, months and years, draw progress graphs — this gives you more power over your Google rankings for keywords and keeps you prepared to react quickly to any change.

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1. It describes your business, product or service — or some part of it.
2. It is frequently used by people when they make searches in Google or other search engines.
3. Online competition for this word is not too tough (not too many websites are already optimizing for this keyword).

To get a mass of keyword ideas and pick out the best–working for SEO keywords, you should got part of SEO PowerSuite tool called Rank Tracker.

You feed Rank Tracker a couple of keywords that you think are good for your site, and it comes up with hundreds of new keyword suggestions that also describe your website”s offer! Besides, you will see how often people search for each keyword on this list and how tough competition is for each and every word.

If you don”t want to make your own choices, Rank Tracker will come up with Keyword Efficiency Index (KEI) for each word and simply mark the best keywords with green and the least effective ones with red.

You can start with keyword choice right now — just download Rank Tracker and follow the built–in wizard to start research.

XML-PRC ping services list

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2

http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping

http://bblog.com/ping.php

http://bitacoras.net/ping

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC

http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc

http://1470.net/api/ping

http://api.feedster.com/ping

http://api.moreover.com/RPC2

http://api.moreover.com/ping

http://blogmatcher.com/u.php

http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc

http://coreblog.org/ping/

http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt

http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/

http://ping.amagle.com/

http://ping.bitacoras.com

http://ping.blo.gs/

http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/

http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc

http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/

http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc

http://ping.feedburner.com

http://ping.myblog.jp

http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php

http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php

http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php

http://ping.weblogs.se/

http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2

http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/

http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2

http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/

http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/

http://rpc.newsgator.com/

http://rpc.pingomatic.com

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

http://topicexchange.com/RPC2

http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php

http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b

http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php

http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2

http://www.blogoole.com/ping/

http://www.blogoon.net/ping/

http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates

http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1

http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php

http://www.blogsnow.com/ping

http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi

http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php

http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud

http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php

http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php

http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2

http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/

http://xmlrpc.blogg.de

http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

Google local ping services list

http://blogsearch.google.ae/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.at/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.be/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.bg/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.ca/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.ch/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.cl/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.cr/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.hu/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.id/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.il/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.in/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.it/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.jp/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.ma/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.nz/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.th/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.uk/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.uk/pingRPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.ve/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.za/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.ar/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.au/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.br/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.co/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.do/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.mx/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.my/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.pe/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.sa/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.sg/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.tr/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.tw/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.ua/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.uy/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.vn/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.de/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.es/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.fi/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.fr/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.gr/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.hr/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.ie/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.in/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.it/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.jp/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.lt/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.nl/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.pl/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.pt/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.ro/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.ru/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.se/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.sk/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.tw/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.us/ping/RPC2

• slashdot.org (PR9)
• digg.com (PR8)
• technorati.com (PR8) (Only Blogs)
• furl.net (PR7)
• backflip.com (PR7)
• hugg.com (PR7) not accepting new registrations
• mixx.com (PR7)
• ma.gnolia.com (PR7)
• connotea.org (PR7)
• mystuff.ask.com (PR7)
• reddit.com (PR7)
• dzone.com (PR7)
• folkd.com (PR7)
• multiply.com (PR7)
• searchles.com (PR6)
• de.lirio.us (PR6)
• dotnetkicks.com (PR6)
• bloghop.com (PR6)
• plime.com (PR6)
• bibsonomy.org (PR6)
• clipclip.org (PR6)
• linkagogo.com (PR6)
• spurl.net (PR6)
• zlitt.com (PR6)
• indianpad.com (PR6)
• tumblr.com (PR6)
• myvmarks.com (PR5)
• listible.com (PR5)
• bringr.com (PR5)
• faves.com (PR5)
• linkinn.com (PR5)
• spotback.com (PR5)
• mylinkvault.com (PR5)
• my.xilinus.com (PR5) seems to be offline for long time
• linkatopia.com (PR5)
• bumpzee.com (PR5)
• bookmarktracker.com (PR5)
• healthranker.com (PR5) (Only for health retated websites)
• a1-webmarks.com (PR4)
• wirefan.com (PR4)
• bmaccess.net (PR4)
• blogmarks.net (PR4)
• postonfire.com (PR4)
• diigo.com (PR4)
• oyax.com (PR4)
• socialogs.com (PR4)
• contentpop.com (PR3)
• pixelmo.com (PR3)
• memfrag.com (PR3)
• getigadget.com (PR3)
• jumptags.com (PR3)
• plugim.com (PR3)
• syncone.net (PR3)
• business-planet.net (PR3)
• hatedorloved.com (PR3)
• bookmarks.com (PR3)
• yattle.com (PR2)
• givealink.org (PR2)
• buzztagz.com (PR1)

And even more – you could save money. There are number of promo codes, which give you some savings. Since friends and colleges keep asking me about them, I’ve decided to post them here and keep updating.

Update June 1, 2010

No one of below provided codes worked, except gdbb776 – $7.68 $7.99  /.com renewal – after icann price increase on July 1, 2010.

Update April 2,  2010

gda347d gave $7.17 price for .net renewal and $7.66 for .com one.  Should work for new domain registrations too.

Past codes

OYH7 – $7.49 +0.20 ICANN fee  .com domains (and renewals too) – sometimes works for other domain extensions too.

goaz006c – 6.99+ICANN fee for new .com domain registrations – works for multiple year registrations (+ free whois privacy protection if you register 5 new domains at once)

goaorg01a – worked for .org renewal ($7.49 + ICANN fee), should work for new .org registrations too.  7/10/2009

gdbb776 – worked for .net renewal ($7.50 + ICANN fee) 7/10/2009

ZINE5 – 10% off anything

ZINE6 – $5 discount on all orders $30 or more

Old, but usually working codes:

hash3 or OYH3 – pay $7.49 instead of 9.99 for each .com domains. If you pay for more than 1 year, $2.50 discount applies for each year.

OYH2 – $5 discount for any services, if total order amount is over $30 (best to use, when keeping total amount is ~ 30$ )

OYH1 – 10% discount for any purchase at GoDaddy (not only domains – includes all services)

Fortunately one day I”ve found such hosting company, which doesn”t charge extra $ for dedicated IP! When I”ve purchased their services, they allowed only 8 domains for business plan (it was still good, if pay $7.95/month and receive 8 dedicated IP worth $16!) And even more, about week ago they changed some features and now UNLIMITED DOMAINS can be hosted!

Here goes probably best hosting package”s main features:

• Host UNLIMITED sites
• 8 dedicated IP addressess (haven”t found any other hosting company offering this…)
• 2 FREE DOMAINS (there are some companies offering 1 free domain, but haven”t seen that someone offered 2)
• 500 Gb web space
• 3,500 Gb data transfer /month
• Free credits for marketing (total value $460, including $50 for Microsoft Ad Center, $50 for Google AdWords, $50 for Yahoo! search marketing etc.)
• FREE Setup + FREE Web Design software
• Other usual things, which are available with hosting packages – no need to list them all.
• Really good services (review from satisfied customer, who wrote this short article

You think it”s for You? If yes,

CLICK HERE TO VISIT THAT HOSTING COMPANY’S SITE!

Winston/Salem, NC – March 28, 2007 – Yesterday, a U.S. District Court judge unsealed a class action lawsuit against Internet domain registrar RegisterFly along with the corporation charged with accreditation and oversight of registrars, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”), among others. The lawsuit (Anne Martinez v RegisterFly, ICANN et. al.) filed by Attorney E. Clarke Dummit alleges that RegisterFly has systematically defrauded its customers who attempted to register or renew Internet domain names, causing them to lose their domain names, finances, and even entire businesses. The lawsuit was initially sealed due to fears of retribution by RegisterFly.com towards plaintiff Anne Martinez for filing the suit, but since then other concerns have become more pressing, and the case was opened to the public.

Lead Plaintiff Anne Martinez fears that RegisterFly is likely to cause the loss of her website GoCertify.com, which is the primary source of support for her and her children. The GoCertify.com domain, which had a scheduled expiration date of March 18, 2007, according to Registerfly, could not be renewed (even though Anne was charged for the service of having that done), was refused transfer to a different registrar, and has had Anne”s ownership information completely removed or concealed from public databases as well as made inaccessible to her. Martinez says, “if Medina illegally shuts down my registration, I could end up losing my business that has supported me for years, and even my home, and I am only one of thousands of people in this same situation. I can not just stand by and let this happen.”

Long before the allegations of misuse of RegisterFly funds by company owner Kevin Medina for such things as escort service; a liposuction procedure; a penthouse apartment in Miami, Florida; and a $6,000 Chihuahua dog, RegisterFly had already earned a growing reputation for failing to renew or transfer domain names, respond to customer support issues, and double or triple charge for services never delivered. It was clear that RegisterFly was in trouble, and the accreditation agency of registrars, ICANN, knew it, but ICANN did not perform its duty to protect the public and continued to accredit RegisterFly and allow it to perform as a registrar.

In fact, ICANN, which collects a fee for every domain sold through its accredited registrars, did not give notice of termination of ICANN”s accreditation of RegisterFly until the day AFTER attorney Dummit served ICANN with this class action lawsuit. This provides further evidence that it is time for the American Legal System to step in and reign in this outrageous, illegal behavior that has already harmed many people around the world, and threatens to damage many more.

“I only hope that this situation can be brought under control before it becomes even worse, and that the agents responsible for all of this harm and heartache will be held accountable for what they have done,” says Martinez.

Visit http://www.registerfly-lawsuit.com for details and recent updates according Class Action Lawsuit against Registerfly.