Verisign, Inc. is an American company based in Reston, Virginia that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the .com, .net, and .name generic top-level domains and the .cc and .tv country-code top-level domains, and the back-end systems for the .jobs, and .edu top-level domains. Verisign also offers a range of security services, including managed DNS, Distributed Denial of Service mitigation and cyber-threat reporting In 2010, Verisign sold its authentication business unit – which... included SSL , PKI , Verisign Trust Seal, and Verisign Identity Protection services – to Symantec for $1.28 billion. The deal capped a multi-year effort by Verisign to narrow its focus to its core infrastructure and security business units. Verisign's former CFO Brian Robins announced in August 2010 that the company would move from its original domicile of Mountain View, California to Dulles in Northern Virginia by 2011 due to 95% of the company's business being on the East Coast.
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| NASDAQ symbol: | VRSN |
| Founded: | 1995 |
| Headquarters: | Mountain View, California |
| Annual revenue: | $961,740,000 |
| Net income: | $-374,690,000 |
| Operating income: | $70,780,000 |
| Market cap: | $8,500,000,000 |
| Industries: | Computer, Custom Computer Programming Services, Telecommunications, Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals |