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Fact Sheet

Every day, VeriSign intelligent infrastructure services enable and protect interactions across voice and data networks – anytime, from anywhere on multiple devices.

Corporate Fact Sheet

• Headquarters: Mountain View, California
• Founded: 1995
• President and CEO: Stratton Sclavos
• IPO: January 1998
• Employees: 3,500 worldwide
• 2004 Revenue: $1.2 billion

Facts

• VeriSign manages two of the world’s 13 Internet root servers, a.root-servers.net and j.root-servers.net, considered national IT assets by the U.S. Federal government.
• VeriSign routes every Web address ending with .com or .net, more than 14.5 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 inquiries every day.
• VeriSign has more than 450,000 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.