registries Verisign Reports First Quarter 2016 Results

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Financial Highlights

• Verisign ended the first quarter with cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of $1.9 billion, a decrease of $20 million from year-end 2015.
• Cash flow from operations was $144 million for the first quarter of 2016, compared with $133 million for the same quarter in 2015.

Business Highlights

• Verisign Registry Services added 2.65 million net new names during the first quarter, ending with 142.5 million .com and .net domain names in the domain name base, which represents a 7.1 percent increase over the base at the end of the first quarter in 2015.
• In the first quarter, Verisign processed 10.0 million new domain name registrations for .com and .net, as compared to 8.7 million for the same quarter in 2015.
• The final .com and .net renewal rate for the fourth quarter of 2015 was 73.3 percent compared with 72.5 percent for the same quarter in 2014. Renewal rates are not fully measurable until 45 days after the end of the quarter.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/verisign-reports-first-quarter-2016-200500578.html

http://files.shareholder.com/downlo...C8161C6130/Q1-2016_Earnings_Release-Final.pdf

interesting stat.....com and .net renewal rate for the fourth quarter of 2015 was 73.3 percent

http://files.shareholder.com/downlo...124453CDC/Q1-2016_Earnings_Slides_-_Final.pdf

126.6 million COM domains