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Websiteverisign.com
CategoryConsumer Web
Phone650-961-7500
Email
Employees3,650
Founded1995

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Coporate Headquarters
487 East Middlefield Road
Mountain View, CA, 94043
USA

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Innovator
VP of International Solutions and Market Development
EVP, CTO, Head of Global Product Design
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Acquisitions

Total$520M
Global Name Registry, 10/08
m-Qube, 3/06 $250M
LightSurf, 1/05 $270M

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VeriSign, Inc.

VeriSign operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet’s thirteen root nameservers, the generic top-level domains for .com and .net, one of the largest SS7 signaling networks in North America, and the RFID directory for EPCGlobal. VeriSign also provides a variety of security and telecom services ranging from digital certificates, payments processing, and managed firewalls to mobile call roaming, toll-free call database queries and downloadable digital content for mobile devices. The company groups all of these functions under the banner of ‘intelligent infrastructure’ services.

Milestones

  • Acquired Global Name Registry. (10/1/08)
    Posted 10/2/08 at 1:43pm
  • Acquired m-Qube for $250M. (3/1/06)
    Posted 9/4/07 at 4:18am
  • Acquired LightSurf for $270M. (1/1/05)
    Posted 9/4/07 at 4:40am
  • David Recordon, Innovator added.
    Posted 3/24/08 at 1:32am
  • Went public with stock symbol VRSN.
    Posted 5/15/08 at 11:11am
  • Mark Hopper, VP of International Solutions and Market Development added.
    Posted 4/24/08 at 9:55am
  • Aristotle Balogh, EVP, CTO, Head of Global Product Design added.
    Posted 4/24/08 at 3:40pm
  • Rob DeMillo, VP of Mobile Technology added.
    Posted 5/19/08 at 6:20am

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