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AT A GLANCE
Company: VeriSign Inc. (NASDAQ Symbol: VRSN)
Business Description: Operates digital infrastructure services that enable and protect billions of interactions across the world's voice, video and data networks.
Products and Services:
Domain Name Services VeriSign is the authoritative directory provider of all .com, .net, .cc, and .tv domain names, and an industry leader in Information Services to globalize access to the Internet.
Secure-Sockets-Layer (SSL) Certificate Solutions VeriSign is the leading secure sockets layer (SSL) Certificate Authority enabling secure e-commerce and communications for Web sites, intranets, and extranets. Choose the trusted mark of high assurance for Internet security and enable the strongest SSL encryption available to every site visitor.
Security Services VeriSign® Security Services provides the digital infrastructure to help companies, public sector agencies, and individuals secure transactions, protect online identities, and effectively understand and manage a broad range of security risks.
Content and Messaging Services Scale, scope, and connectivity are key ingredients for success in the Any Era. VeriSign provides secure and scalable media and enterprise content delivery solutions for Internet, broadband, and mobile applications. From network connections to digital rights management (DRM) to mobile storefronts to video-on-demand, VeriSign enables efficient distribution and empowers you to deliver the content that best fits your users' needs.
Communications Services Today's communications consumers demand content and information at any time, from any location, using any device. VeriSign helps you deliver communications and commerce services across global networks to enable new revenue. By leveraging VeriSign's digital infrastructure, operators and Internet portals can bring new services to market quickly without the complexity of managing many relationships.
Global Consulting Services Our VeriSign® Global Consulting Services organization enables companies to scope, define, and implement digital infrastructure solutions that help drive new revenue streams quickly and improve customer loyalty. With expertise in media and entertainment, wireless and mobility, supply chain, and security, our consulting services offer an unmatched combination of vision, technology, and intelligence - combined with an unparalleled ability to execute.
Revenue:
$1.5 billion (Fiscal 2007)
$386 million (Q4'07)
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Balance Sheet:
Cash & Investments: $1.4 billion (Q4'07)
Deferred Revenue: $739 million (Q4'07)
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Employees worldwide: 4,250
Company Facts:
- Part of the Standard & Poor's 500 index
- Manages two of the world's 13 Internet root servers
- up to 32 billion queries per day to route every Web address ending with either .com or .net
- Manages more than 80 million domain names
- Monitors over two billion security events every day
- Worldwide installed base of more than 935,000 digital certificates, protecting the majority of secure Web sites
- More than 100 million views per day of VeriSign secured checkmark
- Over one million VIP credentials to users across 30 high-profile organizations
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