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VeriSign is the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the digital world. Billions of times each day, companies and consumers rely on our Internet infrastructure to communicate and conduct commerce with confidence.

Corporate Fact Sheet

  • Headquarters: Mountain View, California
  • Founded: 1995
  • President and CEO: Jim Bidzos
  • IPO: January 1998
  • Employees: 4,000 worldwide
  • 2006 Revenue: $1.58 billion

Facts

  • VeriSign is part of the Standard and Poor’s 500 index.
  • VeriSign manages two of the world’s 13 Internet root servers, a.root-servers.net and j.root-servers.net, considered national IT assets by the U.S. federal government.
  • VeriSign provides authoritative routing support for every Web address ending with .com or .net, —as many as 32 billion domain name system (DNS) queries in a single day.
  • VeriSign has unmatched intelligence in IT security from managing thousands of enterprise perimeters.
  • VeriSign protects more than 900,000 Web servers with digital certificates, protecting the majority of secure Web sites on the Internet, including 95% of the Fortune 500 sites.
  • The VeriSign Secured Seal is viewed over 100 million times each day. 
  • Every day, VeriSign delivers over 375 million mobile-originated intercarrier SMS messages, and over 2.3 million multimedia messages.
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