VeriSign
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Type of site
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Public |
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| Traded as |
NASDAQ: VRSN S&P 500 Component |
| Founded | June 2, 1995 |
| Headquarters | Reston, Virginia, U.S. |
| Founder(s) | James Bidzos |
| Key people | James Bidzos (Chairman, President & CEO) |
| Industry | Internet, Communications |
| Revenue |
 US$ 965.087 million (2013) US$ 873.592 million (2012) |
| Operating income |
US$ 528.232 million (2013) US$ 457.327 million (2012) |
| Net income |
US$ 544.45 million (2013) US$ 320.032 million (2012) |
| Total assets |
US$ 2,660.767 million (2013) US$ 2,062.476 million (2012) |
| Total equity |
 US$ -423.558 million (2013) US$ -9.323 million (2012) |
| Employees | 1,019 |
| Slogan(s) | Powered by Verisign |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |
20,539 (November 2015[update]) |
Verisign, Inc. is an American company based in Reston, Virginia, United States that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the .com, .net, and .name generic top-level domains and the .cc and .tv country-code top-level domains, and the back-end systems for the .jobs, .gov, and .edu top-level domains. Verisign also offers a range of security services, including managed DNS, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack mitigation and cyber-threat reporting.
In 2010, Verisign sold its authentication business unit – which included SSL certificate, PKI, Verisign Trust Seal, and Verisign Identity Protection (VIP) services – to Symantec for $1.28 billion. The deal capped a multi-year effort by Verisign to narrow its focus to its core infrastructure and security business units.
Verisign's former CFO Brian Robins announced in August 2010 that the company would move from its original location of Mountain View, California, to Dulles in Northern Virginia by 2011 due to 95% of the company's business being on the East Coast.
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