Company
Headquarters: Reston, VA, United States
Founded: April 12, 1995
Employees: 902
CEO: Mr. D. James Bidzos
$21.78 Billion
USD as of Jan. 1, 2023
VeriSign, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides domain name registry services and internet infrastructure that enables internet navigation for various recognized domain names worldwide. It enables the security, stability, and resiliency of internet infrastructure and services, including providing root zone maintainer services, operating two of the 13 internet root servers; and offering registration services and authoritative resolution for the .com and .net domains, which support global e-commerce. The company also back-end systems for .cc, .gov, .edu, and .name domain names, as well as operates distributed servers, networking, security, and data integrity services. VeriSign, Inc. was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.
VeriSign, Inc. has the following listings and related stock indices.
Stock: NASDAQ: VRSN
Stock: BCBA: VRSN
Stock: Bovespa: VRSN34
Stock: FSX: VRS
Founder(s): James Bidzos
James Bidzos (Chairman, President & CEO)
Revenue: US$1.17 billion (2017)
Operating income: US$686.6 million (2016)
Net income: US$492 million (2017)
Total assets: US$2.941 billion (2017)
Total equity: −US$1.201 billion (2016)