Fact Sheet

VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN) is the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world. Billions of times each day VeriSign helps companies and consumers all over the world to engage in trusted communications and commerce.

Corporate Facts

  • Headquarters: Mountain View, California
  • Founded: 1995
  • President and CEO: Mark McLaughlin
  • IPO: January 1998
  • Employees: 2,200 worldwide
  • 2009 Core Revenue: $1.026 billion

Fast 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 protects more than one million Web servers with digital certificates, protecting the majority of secure Web sites on the Internet, including 93% of the Fortune 500 sites.

The VeriSign seal is viewed up to 250 million times a day on more than 90,000 web sites in 160 countries and in search results on enabled browsers as well as partner shopping sites and product review pages.”

Over 3.5 million VeriSign Identity Protection Credentials have been issued to use for strong authentication.

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