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Fact Sheet

Every day, VeriSign Intelligent Infrastructure Services enable people and businesses around the world to find, connect, secure, and transact across today’s complex global networks.

Corporate Fact Sheet

• Headquarters: Mountain View, California
• Founded: 1995
• President and CEO: Stratton Sclavos
• IPO: January 1998
• Employees: 3,000 worldwide
• 2003 Revenue: $1.054 billion
• NASDAQ Symbol: VRSN

Facts

• VeriSign manages two of the world’s 13 Internet root servers, considered national IT assets by the U.S. Federal government.
• VeriSign routes every Web address ending with .com or .net, more than 14 billion domain name system (DNS) inquiries every day.
• VeriSign delivers more than 3 million ringtones, pictures, and games to mobile phone customers.
• VeriSign has unmatched intelligence in IT security from managing thousands of enterprise perimeters, millions of e-commerce transactions, and billions of Internet inquires every day.
• VeriSign processes 30 percent of North American e-commerce transactions.
• VeriSign maintains the largest base of secure payments customers on the Internet: more than 100,000 customers processing billions of dollars every quarter.
• VeriSign has more than 400,000 digital certificates installed throughout the world, protecting the majority of secure Web sites on the Internet.
• VeriSign operates the largest independently owned SS7 network in the world, routing 2.7 billion phone connections from carrier to carrier, across national boundaries, and between protocols.
• Every day VeriSign translates nearly 5 million inter-carrier text messages, handles 50 percent of roaming traffic in the U.S., and delivers more than 10 million Caller IDs.
• VeriSign was selected by EPCGlobal to provide the critical infrastructure for the EPC Network, enabling organizations to locate and share RFID information the way the DNS enables browsers to locate Web addresses.