---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001014473-23-000028"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VRSN"
cik: "0001014473"
company_name: "VERISIGN INC/CA"
filed_at: "2023-06-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T13:36:30.055643+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# VeriSign renews .net Registry Agreement with ICANN through June 2029 on same terms

## Summary
- Renewed .net Registry Agreement runs through June 30, 2029, no changes to material terms.
- Pricing provisions allow up to 10% annual price increase on .net domain name registration with proper notice.
- VeriSign must collect $0.75 fee per .net domain on ICANN's behalf.
- Agreement maintains six-year term, same service levels, termination and renewal terms as 2017 agreement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001014473-23-000028
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VRSN
- cik: 0001014473
- company_name: VERISIGN INC/CA
- filed_at: 2023-06-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1014473/000101447323000028/0001014473-23-000028-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1014473/000101447323000028/vrsn-20230629.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001014473-23-000028
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001014473-23-000028.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001014473-23-000028.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  VERISIGN INC/CA entered into .net Registry Agreement with Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) valued at Six-year term through June 30, 2029; allows price increases of up to 10% per year; $0.75 fee per dom (effective 2023-06-29).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: license
  - Counterparty: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
  - Value: Six-year term through June 30, 2029; allows price increases of up to 10% per year; $0.75 fee per dom
  - Effective: 2023-06-29
  source text: On June 29, 2023, VeriSign, Inc. (the “ Company ”) and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ ICANN ”) entered into a renewal of the .net Registry Agreement, through June 30, 2029 (the " Agreement "). The Agreement renews the current .net Registry Agreement entered into by the Company and ICANN in 2017 with no changes to the material terms.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1014473/000101447323000028/0001014473-23-000028-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.