Cooperative Agreement

A long-running agreement between Verisign (glossary)Verisign The company that operates the .com and .net registries. Full definition of Verisign and the NTIA (glossary)NTIA National Telecommunications and Information Administration The United States government agency for internet policy, which oversaw IANA until 2016. Full definition of NTIA, an agency of the United States government. Among other things, it limits how much Verisign may raise the wholesale price (glossary)wholesale price What a registry charges a registrar for each domain name. Full definition of wholesale price of .com and bars it from acting as a .com registrar (glossary)registrar A company that registers domain names for customers with the registry. Full definition of registrar. It sits alongside Verisign's .com contract with ICANN (glossary)ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers The nonprofit that coordinates the global DNS and gTLD policy. Full definition of ICANN.