VeriSign (News - Alert), a provider of Internet infrastructure for the networked world has announced an increase in registry domain name fees for .com and .net, per its agreements with ICANN.

 

The registry fee for .com domain names will increase from $6.42 to $6.86 and the registry fee for .net domain names will increase, from $3.85 to $4.23. The increase in fees will be effective from October 1, 2008

 

VeriSign said that the traffic volume continues to increase with the emergence of consumer-driven services, the increase in Web-connected wireless devices and the proliferation of technologies and services using the Domain Name System (DNS). The company claims to process a peak of over 33 billion DNS queries per day under normal traffic conditions.

 

The company is already increasing the capacity of its global Internet infrastructure by ten times by the year 2010 and will increase its daily DNS query capacity from 400 billion queries a day to over 4 trillion queries a day as well as increase the aggregate network bandwidth of its primary resolution centers worldwide from over 20 gigabits per second (Gbps) to greater than 200 Gbps per second.

 

By 2010, VeriSign will expand its deployment of Regional Internet Resolution Sites to more than 100 locations across the globe. Moreover, VeriSign is deploying new proprietary security upgrades and monitoring tools to identify, track and isolate malicious Internet traffic generated from cyber attacks.

 

VeriSign, Inc. operates Internet infrastructure services that enable and protect billions of interactions every day across the world's voice, video and data networks. Recently the company announced that more than 100 credit unions turn to VeriSign to protect consumers against identity theft.