Reports of .com’s death are greatly exaggerated, but VeriSign’s growth opportunities remain limited.
Verisign’s share sank roughly 7% on Tuesday as investors digested a recent letter sent to the U.S. Department of Justice by three U.S. Senators expressing concern over the early renewal of Verisign’s exclusivity agreement with ICANN to operate the global .com registry. While the letter is several days old, and the agreement and corresponding relinquishing of certain controls by the NTIA has been in the works for several months, we believe the trepidation characterized by today's reaction in Veri...Verisign is a provider of domain name registry services and internet infrastructure, enabling internet navigation for domain names. The company enables the security, stability, and resiliency of main internet infrastructure and services, including providing root zone maintainer services, operating internet root servers, and providing registration services and authoritative resolution for the .com and .net top-level domains, which support the majority of global e-commerce. The company operates the authoritative directory of and/or the back-end systems for all .com, .net, .cc, .tv, .gov, .jobs, .edu and .name domain names, among others. The company also provides internationalized domain name services.
Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.
Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.
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