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.

从2010年7月开始.COM的价格是7.34美元，.NET的价格是4.65美元，这个价格就是域名的成本价格。

以下是官方网站的声明和地址：

VeriSign Announces Increase in .com/.net Domain Name Fees

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — (Marketwire) — December 17, 2009 — 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.

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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.

Contact Information:     For more information, contact:
Investor Relations:
Nancy Fazioli
ir@verisign.com
650-426-5146

Media Relations:
Brad Williams
brwilliams@verisign.com
650-426-5298

　　DNSSEC是为阻止中间人攻击而设计的，利用中间人攻击，黑客可以劫持DNS请求，并返回一个假地址给请求方，这种攻击手段类似于正常的DNS重定向，人们在不知不觉中被转到另一个URL。

　　据Melbourne IT首席战略官，ICANN董事Bruce Tonkin说，本次升级将会给那些毫无准备的网络管理员一个措手不及，响应标准DNS请求往往只有一个单一的数据包(UDP协议)，大小一般不会超过 521字节，在某些较旧的网络设备中，比这个大的请求将会被出厂默认配置阻止掉，它会认为超过这个大小的数据包是异常的。

　　截至UTC 5月5日17:00点，所有发送给用户DNS解析器的DNSSEC签名的消息将会变大到2KB，是原来的4倍，但这么大的数据包可能会被许多网络设备拒绝接收，因此这个响应消息很可能会通过TCP分成多个数据包进行发送。

　　Tonkin有点担心，虽然DNSSEC已经提上日程有一段时间了，但许多IT和网络管理员还没有测试他们的旧路由器和防火墙，如果不能处理更大的DNS响应数据包就麻烦了。

　　他说：“企业网络中的设备可能会阻止比以往更大的DNS请求响应数据包”。

　　DNSSEC其实早在 2009年11月就在全球13台根服务器上准备好了，到目前为止，它只会导致许多旧网络设备载入网页略有延迟。

　　不是所有DNS根服务器都会响应每一个请求，用户机器上的DNS解析器会逐个请求这13台根服务器，直到返回一个满意的答复。当13台具有 DNSSEC签名功能的根服务器全部上线后，所有的响应不会抵达旧设备的企业网络，Tonkin希望大型ISP能解决这个问题，让家庭用户不受影响。

　　他说：“我不能保证所有ISP都准备好了，ISP会为你翻译DNS，但企业网络可能影响比较大，因为企业可能运行了自己的DNS服务器”。

　　从这个意义上来说，5月5日可与千年虫危机匹敌。Tonkin预计会有大量的组织遇到互联网接入问题，大量的网络管理员将会抓破头皮寻找问题的根源。

　　这个问题可能需要数天才能完全消除，晚上未关机的用户可能会访问到一些页面，那也仅仅是缓存中的内容。Tonkin建议网络管理员尽快运行一系列简单的测试，确保他们的网络可以处理更大的DNS响应包。