GoDaddy, VeriSign Lobby Capitol Hill

Published: July 31, 2007, 3:12 pm

Tags: policy amp law, domain registrars

Domain name companies spend hundreds of thousands lobbying politicians. Domain name companies such as .com/.net registry VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) and registrar GoDaddy are spending hundreds of thousands each year lobbying in Washington. An AP story published today disclosed that VeriSign spent $570,000 in the first half of 2007 to lobby the U.S. federal government. I searched the United States Senate’s records to find out which other domain related firms were busy in the capital. GoDaddy’s last report, covering the last half of 2006, shows that it spent $280,000 during that period. Its total for 2006 was $460,000. GoDaddy has been active in Washington since late last year when it announced it had a “full-time presence” there (See GoDaddy Goes to Washington). Register.com has a few disclosures from the early 2000s, but appears to have exited the lobbying business around that time (at least under the name of Register.com). NueStar, the current registry for

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