Company Information
About Verisign

Learn more about our corporate culture and the ways in which we strive to be good neighbours every day.

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: Reston, VA
  • Founded: 1995
  • President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board: Jim Bidzos
  • IPO: January 1998
  • Employees: 1,040 worldwide
  • Verisign is part of the Standard and Poor’s 500 index.
  • 2010 Naming Services Revenue: $681 million

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.