Verisign
Sign in to saveVerisign, Inc. is an American company based in Reston, Virginia, that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the , , and generic top-level domains and the country-code top-level domains, and the back-end systems for the and sponsored top-level domains.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Verisign, Inc.
- Company.logo
- Verisign logo.svg
- Company.image
- Verisign HQ viewed from the RTC Orange Garage.jpg
- Company.image_caption
- Headquarters in Reston, Virginia
- Company.type
- Public
- Company.location
- Reston, Virginia
- Company.location_country
- U.S.
- Company.founder
- James Bidzos
- Company.industry
- Internet, telecommunications
- Company.revenue
- (2025)
- Company.operating_income
- (2025)
- Company.net_income
- (2025)
- Company.assets
- (2025)
- Company.equity
- (2025)
- Company.num_employees
- 928 (2025)
- Network service provider.child
- yes
- Network service provider.asn
- 7342
- Network service provider.asn_suffix
- (primary)
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
14 sectionsContents
- History
- Naming services
- Company properties
- Controversies
- 2001: Code signing certificate mistake
- 2002: Domain transfer lawsuit
- 2003: Site Finder legal case
- 2003: Gives up {{mono|.org}} domain
- 2005: Retains {{mono|.net}} domain
- 2010: Data breach and disclosure controversy
- 2010: Web site domain seizures
- 2012: Web site domain seizure
- References
- External links
Verisign, Inc. is an American company based in Reston, Virginia, that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the , , and generic top-level domains and the country-code top-level domains, and the back-end systems for the and sponsored top-level domains.
In 2010, Verisign sold its authentication business unit – which included Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate, public key infrastructure (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. Symantec later sold this unit to DigiCert in 2017. On October 25, 2018, NeuStar, Inc. acquired VeriSign's Security Service Customer Contracts. The acquisition effectively transferred Verisign Inc.'s Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection, Managed DNS, DNS Firewall and fee-based Recursive DNS services customer contracts.
Gallery (4)
Connections
Categories
1995 establishments in Virginia1998 initial public offeringsAmerican companies established in 1995Companies based in Reston, VirginiaCompanies listed on the NasdaqComputer companies established in 1995Corporate spin-offsDDoS mitigation companiesDomain name registriesDomain name seizures by the United StatesDomain Name SystemFormer certificate authorities