Verisign, Rediff tie up for Web addresses

NEW DELHI: VeriSign Inc, one of the world's leading providers of Web

addresses, said on Tuesday it had tied up with Indian Internet portal Rediff.com

to offer personalized Web addresses to Indian individuals.

Arthur Chang, Asia Pacific region managing director of US-based VeriSign

subsidiary Network Solutions Inc (NSI), told a news conference VeriSign would,

with Rediff, offer Web addresses and e-mail addresses fully based on people's

names.

"Instead of having an e-mail address now as username@serviceprovider.com

people can have sername@username.com," Chang said by video conference from

Hong Kong. He said details of the tie-up and the service would be announced in

the next few weeks.

"I believe we are still getting quite a similar number or a small

percentage growth in the number of domain name (Web address) registrations in

India this year compared to last year," Chang said. He did not give

details. Earlier on Tuesday, Tarang Software, an Indian start-up specializing in

wireless and Internet software, said it had acquired the Indian unit of

electronic payment service firm CyberCash from VeriSign.

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