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149.7 million total .com/.net base, $302 million revenue: Verisign earnings

Verisign continues to show growth in .com domains.

Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) noted earnings for the second quarter of 2018 following the bell today.

The firm generated $302 million in revenue and $128 million net income for Q2 2018.

There were 149.7 million .com and .net domains registered at the end of the quarter. That’s an increase of 1.39 million domains from the end of Q1, ahead of the firm’s expectations of 0.7 to 1.2 million. (As I’ve pointed out ahead of, it’s fairly easy for the firm to his its domain base targets.)

There were 9.6 million fresh domain name registrations for .com and .net domains in the quarter.

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