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Corporate Overview |
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Fact Sheet
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:
William A Roper, Jr
- IPO: January 1998
- Employees: 4,000
worldwide
- 2006 Revenue: $1.58
billion (£3.21 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 US 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 corporate perimeters.
- VeriSign protects
more than 900,000 Web servers with digital certificates, protecting
the majority of secure Web sites on the Internet, including 93 per cent
of the Fortune 500 sites.
- The VeriSign Secured™
Seal is viewed over 100 million times each day.
- Every day, VeriSign
delivers over375 million mobile-originated intercarrier SMS messages
and over 2.3 million multimedia messages.
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