Verisign
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| 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.