Verisign

Type:	Public
Industry:	Internet, Communications
Founded:	USA (1995)
Headquarters:	487 East Middlefield Road, USA Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
Employees:	2,225
Revenue:	$1.5 billion USD (2007)
Website:	http://www.verisign.com/
Key People
Mark McLaughlin, CEO D. James Bidzos, Chairman

VeriSign is an Internet infrastructure service providing company. It is s based in Mountain View, CA and was founded in 1995. Verisign provides naming services and authentication services. The naming services include the provision of authoritative directory of various .com, .net, .cc, .tv, .name, .jobs, and .edu domain names.The authentication services includes business authentication services such as implementing and operating secure networks, utilizing Secure Socket Layer protocol, encrypting transactions and communications and User authentication such identity protection , fraud detection, and public key infra structure etc.