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VeriSign Issues Quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief; Overall Domain Name Registrations at 76.9M Names

Global Registrations Rise Eight Percent Over Q4 2004; Growth Driven by Strong Global Economy, Growing Base of Internet Users, and online Advertising; China, Japan and South Korea Among Leaders in Worldwide Domain Registrations

Mountain View, CA. June 7, 2004 - VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN), the leading provider of intelligent infrastructure services for the Internet and telecommunications networks, today released the VeriSign Domain Name Industry Brief for the first quarter of 2005, underscoring key industry data for worldwide domain name activity. In all, worldwide domain name registrations reached a record high of 76.9 million domain names, which represents eight percent growth over the fourth quarter of 2004 and a 22 percent increase over the first quarter of 2004. Also today, VeriSign released the Domain Name Industry Brief Regional Report for Asia highlighting Internet usage and connectivity trends in Asias three fastest growing countries for Internet services China, Japan and South Korea.
Increasing Growth
According to the Domain Name Industry Brief, over 6.7 million new domain names were registered in all Top Level Domains (TLDs) during the first quarter of 2005, marking the highest increase in domain name growth to date. Key factors contributing to the growth of new domain name registrations include a strengthening global economy, increasing numbers of regular Internet users and the continued growth in online advertising.

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.Com accounts for 47 percent of all domain name registrations; country code Top Level Domain names (ccTLDs) (domain names ending in country codes such as .de for Germany, .uk for United Kingdom, and .jp for Japan) account for 35 percent of domain name registrations. Other Generic Top Level Domain Names (gTLDs), such as .org, .biz, .info and .name collectively account for 11 percent of all domain name registration; and .net accounts for seven percent of all domain name registration.

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Overall, by the end of 2007 its estimated that approximately 1.35 billion people will be connected to the Internet. While global Internet usage is on the rise, growth in Asia remains particularly strong specifically, within China, Japan and South Korea. Even though China already has approximately 90 million Internet users, that number represents only seven to eight percent of Chinas overall population of 1.28 billion people. Just since January of 2005, more than five million new people in China have become frequent users of the Internet. By the close of this year in Japan, 57 percent of the countrys 127.6 million people are expected to be online a ten million increase in users from 2003. And in South Korea, one of the worlds most advanced populations in terms of the number of regular Internet users, 31.67 (approximately 74 percent) million people out of the total population of 42.76 million are considered regular Internet users.

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Broadband Phone Cable VeriSign publishes the Domain Name Industry Brief to provide Internet users throughout the world with significant statistical and analytical research on the domain name industry and the Internet as a whole. Copies of this quarters Domain Name Industry Brief and Domain Name Industry Brief Regional Report: Asia-China, Japan and South Korea, as well as previous reports in the series, may be obtained at www.verisign.com/domainbrief.

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VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN) delivers intelligent infrastructure services that make the Internet and telecommunications networks more reliable and secure. Every day VeriSign helps thousands of businesses and millions of consumers conduct commerce and communications with confidence. Additional news and information about the company is available at http://www.verisign.com/.

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