Verisign is paying a $3 cash dividend to shareholders. Verisign began trading ex-dividend on 12/16. The adjusted closing price for 12/15 is $34.01.
During the Trading Day
| 47.77 |  -0.59 / -1.22% |
Data as of 4:00pm ET | Day’s Change | |
| 47.77 |  0.00 / 0.00% |
| Volume: 184.6K |
| SECTOR Technology Services | INDUSTRY Internet Software/Services | MARKET CAP $7.3B |
Company Description
VeriSign, Inc. is an Internet infrastructure services company. The company provides network confidence and availability for mission-critical Internet services, such as domain name registry services and infrastructure assurance services. It operates in single reportable segment: Naming Services, which consists of Registry Services and Network Intelligence and Availability Services. The Registry Services operates the authoritative directory of all .com, .net, .cc, .tv, and .name domain names and the back-end systems for all .jobs and .edu domain names. The Network Intelligence and Availability Services include infrastructure assurance services to organizations including Verisign iDefense Security Intelligence Services, Managed Domain Name System Services, and Distributed Denial of Service mitigation. The company was founded by D. James Bidzos on April 12, 1995 and is headquartered in Reston, VA.
Employees
Shareholders
| Other institutional | 76.09% |
| Mutual fund holders | 36.68% |
| Individual stakeholders | 3.06% |
Top Executives
| D. James Bidzos | Executive Chairman, President & CEO |
| George E. Kilguss, III, MBA | Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President |
| Mark Gathje | Senior Vice President-Technology Services |
| Burt Kaliski, Jr., PhD | Chief Technology Officer & Senior Vice President |
| Grant L. Clark | Chief Administrative Officer & Senior VP |
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