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Verisign is an American internet and communications industry founded in the year of 1995. The main aim of the firm is to provide Internet infrastructure services and networking facilities for carrying out critical Internet services for serious projects like that of domain name registering services along with the infrastructure assurance servicing. Trading of the firm is followed with the help of the index of NASDAQ with the help of the VRSN as its symbol and it is also one of the main components of S & P 500 indexing. Internet and communications are the two main industries that are primarily focused upon by the firm. It has been headquartered in Reston, Virginia, United States. One of the key people responsible for operating the firm as a whole for the overall growth and development of the firm is James Bidzos, who is the founder and also the Chief Executive Officer of the firm. Talking about the revenue generation of the firm in the year of 2011, it has been estimated that 837.59 million $ are present as the overall revenue of the firm along with the value of net income to come out as 320.03 million $ for the same year. A large number of employees are working for the growth and the development of the firm that have been estimated to come out as 1,040 in numbering. A diversified array of networking is followed for the following of the operations of the firm which includes 2 Internet’s 13 root name servers, registration for .com, ,net, .name for the top level generic domains. The country code top level domains are also been purchased by the firm like .tv and .cc. Finally, the acquirement of back end systems like .edu and other types of top level domains have also been taken by the firm. Additionally, the offering of a large range of security servicing which includes management of DNS, DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) along with the authorization of cyber threat reporting facilities are also provided by the firm in a view to make its expansion in all the fields related to internet networking type of fields. One of the top naming services is also taken by the firm which can be named as Registry Services and Network Intelligence and Availability. In the year of 2010, the authentication business segment of the firm has been sold out which consist of SSL certificate, PKI, Verisign Trust Sea and many other related things. Mountain View, California, Northern Virginia and East Coast are the prime locations of the presence of the firm.