Verisign
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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.
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Verisign, Inc. is an active United States company incorporated in Delaware. The organization is headquartered in Fairfax and Reston. It operates in the computer programming services industry and is listed on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker symbol VRSN. The company was established on April 12, 1995.
Verisign employs 1,019 people. Its total revenue stands at 1,424,900,000, with total assets of 2,941,000,000. The company’s total equity is -1,201,000,000. Operating income figures include 686,600,000, -231,518,000, 63,598,000, and 313,727,000. Net profit values are recorded as 492,000,000, -150,347,000, -374,251,000, and 245,553,000.
The organization provides global domain name registry services and internet infrastructure. It maintains an official website and has 47,819 social media followers. Verisign is referenced by 805 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 37 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Firecrawl, GLEIF, SEC EDGAR, ROR, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
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
Company
VRSN- Industry
- Services-Computer Programming Services
- Exchange
- Nasdaq
- State of incorporation
- DE
- Entity type
- operating
- Jurisdiction
- US-DE
- Headquarters
- Fairfax, US
Official website
A global provider of domain name registry services and internet infrastructure | Verisign
Verisign, a global provider of domain name registry services and internet infrastructure, enables internet navigation for many of the world’s most recognized domain names.
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Encyclopedic overview
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 enables the world to connect online with reliability and confidence, anytime, anywhere. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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