Verisign reported a stronger second quarter and first half of 2026, while also announcing several shareholder-return and financing actions shortly after quarter-end. For the quarter ended June 30, 2026, the company recorded revenue of $434.6 million, up 6% from $409.9 million a year earlier. First-half revenue rose 6% to $863.5 million from $812.2 million. Operating income was $296.3 million for the quarter, up 6%, and $589.9 million for the first six months, up 7%. The company’s core domain registry business continued to expand. As of June 30, 2026, Verisign had 179.1 million .com and .net domain name registrations in its domain name base, a 5.1% increase from June 30, 2025, and a net increase of 3.0 million registrations from March 31, 2026. During the second quarter, Verisign processed 12.7 million new .com and .net domain name registrations, compared with 10.4 million in the same period of 2025. The final renewal rate for the first quarter of 2026 was 76.3%, up from 75.5% in the first quarter of 2025. Verisign also disclosed continued capital returns through stock repurchases. During the three months ended June 30, 2026, the company repurchased 0.7 million shares of common stock for an aggregate cost of $196.8 million. At June 30, 2026, $666.0 million remained available under the existing share repurchase program. The company said that, effective July 23, 2026, its board authorized an additional $884.2 million for common stock repurchases; combined with $615.8 million then remaining under the prior authorization, that brought the total available repurchase authorization to $1.50 billion. In addition, Verisign’s board declared a cash dividend of $0.81 per share of outstanding common stock on July 20, 2026. The dividend is payable August 27, 2026, to stockholders of record as of the close of business on August 19, 2026. The filing also reported debt activity. Verisign issued new “2026 Notes” on June 26, 2026, and on July 20, 2026 used the net proceeds from that issuance, together with cash on hand, to redeem all of its “2017 Notes.” The excerpt does not provide the principal amount, coupon, maturity, or redemption price for those notes, but the transaction indicates Verisign refinanced or replaced an outstanding debt obligation shortly after the end of the quarter. Operationally, Verisign highlighted an upcoming price increase for .com registrations. On April 23, 2026, the company announced that it will raise the annual registry-level wholesale fee for each new and renewal .com domain name registration from $10.26 to $10.97, effective November 1, 2026. Verisign noted that its .com registry agreement permits price increases of up to 7% in each of the final four years of each six-year period; the current period began October 26, 2024. The company also referenced its .net pricing authority, under which it may increase .net registration prices by up to 10% annually through June 30, 2029. A separate business development came on July 22, 2026, when Verisign announced that the .web top-level domain had been delegated into the global DNS root zone, with Verisign designated as.