DNS - VeriSign Marks 25 Years of .com

VeriSign (News - Alert), Inc. a trusted provider of Internet infrastructure for the networked world is celebrating its 25th anniversary.  The .com domain continues to remain at the center of nearly every major Internet trend. According to VeriSign's Internet Profiling Service there are 11.9 million e-commerce and online business websites, 1.8 million sports-related sites and 4.3 million entertainment-related sites with a .com web address. The most popular words among .com URL's today include 'home' (1.2 million), 'online' (1 million) and 'land' (891,000).

In a release, Mark McLaughlin, CEO and president of VeriSign, said 'For anyone under the age of 30, they probably don't remember when the Internet wasn't in their life. It's become such an essential part of how we work, live and play. The 25th anniversary of .com gives us a moment to step back and realize how deeply the Internet revolution has transformed our society.'

The economic and social impact of the .com industry is undisputed. For the first time the economic impact of .com has been quantified in a new study which found that the domain serves as a platform for $400 billion in annual economic activity. The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), released a report which found that the broader Internet economy drives more than $1.5 trillion in global annual economic activity, more than the global sales of medicine, investment in renewable energy, and government investment in R&D, combined. The ITIF estimates that the economic activity flowing across the .com infrastructure is likely to grow to $950 billion in annual revenue by 2020.

The .com domain has been responsible for creating a generation of innovation and entrepreneurism, serving as the launch pad for a new breed of companies that have transformed communications, commerce, entertainment and more.

McLaughlin went on to say that 'At VeriSign, we're proud of the role we play in helping bring the Internet to people, but we never take for granted that we have to continue to build and strengthen the Internet so it can continue to meet the increasing demands placed upon it.'

VeriSign is scaling and in some cases revamping the infrastructure that keeps the .com running in order to meet the infrastructure challenges expected by 2020. VeriSign's 2020 technology roadmap requires for it to grow capacity 1,000 times today's level of 4 trillion queries to manage 4 quadrillion queries per day to support normal and peak attack volumes based on what the company has experienced as well as current and forecasted Internet attack trends.