5 1NASDAQ 0001204822 Officer VeriSign, Inc. 0001014473 94-3221585 12/31/02 5 UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM 5 ANNUAL STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP [ ] Check box if no longer subject to Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5 obligations may continue. [ ] Form 3 Holdings Reported [ ] Form 4 Transactions Reported 1. Name and Address of Reporting Person(s) Lewis, Russell S. 487 East Middlefield Road Mountain View, CA 94043 2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol VeriSign, Inc. (VRSN) 3. I.R.S. Identification Number of Reporting Person, if an entity (Voluntary) 4. Statement for Month/Year 12/02 5. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Year) 6. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) [ ] Director [ ] 10% Owner [X] Officer (give title below) [ ] Other (specify below) EVP and GM, Global Registry Services: ISG 7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) [X] Form filed by One Reporting Person [ ] Form filed by More than One Reporting Person SIGNATURE OF REPORTING PERSON /S/ By: Donald T Rozak Jr, as attorney-in-fact For: Russell S. Lewis DATE 02/12/03
Table I Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1)Title of Security 2)Trans- 3.Trans- 4.Securities Acquired(A) 5)Amount of 6) 7)Nature of action action or Disposed of (D) Securities Indirect Date Code A Beneficially D Beneficial (Month/ or Owned at or Ownership Day/Year) Code Amount D Price End of Year I - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock 50,000 D Direct Table II (PART 1) Derivative Securitites Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (Columns 1 through 6) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1)Title of Derivative 2)Conversion 3)Trans- 4)Trans- 5)Number of Derivative 6)Date Exercisable and Security or Exercise action action Securities Acquired (A) Expiration Date Price of Date Code or Disposed of (D) Derivative Security Code A D Exercisable Expiration - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Non-Qualified Stock Option $10.0800 05/24/02 A 100,000 (1) 05/24/09 (right to buy) Non-Qualified Stock Option $22.7100 02/21/02 A 180,000 (1) 02/21/09 (right to buy) Non-Qualified Stock Option $34.1600 09/06/08 (right to buy) Non-Qualified Stock Option $34.4380 03/15/08 (right to buy) Non-Qualified Stock Option $189.5350 03/20/05 (right to buy) Table II (PART 2) Derivative Securitites Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (Columns 1,3 and 7 through 11) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1)Title of Derivative 3)Trans- 7)Title and Amount 8)Price 9)Number of 10) 11)Nature of Security action of Underlying of Deri- Derivative Indirect Date Securities vative Securities D Beneficial Amount or Security Beneficially or Ownership Number of Owned at I - Title Shares End of Year - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Non-Qualified Stock Option 05/24/02 Common Stock 100,000 100,000 D Direct (right to buy) Non-Qualified Stock Option 02/21/02 Common Stock 180,000 180,000 D Direct (right to buy) Non-Qualified Stock Option Common Stock 40,000 40,000 D Direct (right to buy) Non-Qualified Stock Option Common Stock 40,000 40,000 D Direct (right to buy) Non-Qualified Stock Option Common Stock 79,523 79,523 D Direct (right to buy) Explanation of Responses: (1) 25% of the total options granted vest and become exercisable one year after the date of grant and thereafter with respect to 6.25% o f the shares each quarter until fully vested. - - Total Shares reduced by 43 shares to reflect involuntary liquidation on or about July 22, 2002 of the shares previously being held f rozen under the terminating Networks Solutions, Inc. 401(k) Plan due to the inability to perform an in-kind transfer of the shares b etween the fomer Network Solutions, Inc. 401(k) Plan and the VeriSign, Inc. 401(k) Plan.