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Our global registries, data centers, and networks provide the security, scalability, and reliability to support digital interactions today and tomorrow. And VeriSign continues to play a central role in the dramatic expansion and protection of the Internet itself, with well over $500 million invested in Project Titan, a global initiative to exponentially increase the core infrastructure capacity and heighten security systems. By 2010, these enhancements will allow VeriSign to increase daily DNS query capacity tenfold from 400 billion queries a day currently to 4 trillion queries a day. Scaling our proprietary systems will increase bandwidth capacity ten times from more than 20 gigabits per second (Gbps) to greater than 200 Gbps.

Why VeriSign

VeriSign is the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world. The ability to know and trust the parties with which you do business and communicate has become critical in the networked world.

• VeriSign facilitates as many as 50 billion authoritative Domain Name System (DNS) queries a day, and has been providing this service since 1998 with 100% availability.
• VeriSign plans to increase capacity of the .com and .net DNS by 10 times by 2010 to provide the security and stability required for global Internet-based transactions.
• VeriSign is the SSL Certificate provider of choice for over 93% of the Fortune 500 and 97 of the world's 100 largest SSL-using banks.
• 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.
• VeriSign has issued over 2 million VeriSign® Identity Protection (VIP) credentials to consumers for strong authentication on a network of leading Web sites.

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