Verisign
VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN) operates as a global provider of critical internet infrastructure and domain name registry services. The company maintains its principal website at https://www.verisign.com and serves as a foundational component of internet operations worldwide. From the company’s description.
Margins and return on equity change in ; everything else in percent. Fewer shares and less debt are shown plainly, not as bad news — it depends what you make of buybacks. Dotted labels explain each measure. is shown separately from the annual figures.
What Verisign does
In the company’s own words
VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN) operates as a global provider of critical internet infrastructure and domain name registry services. The company maintains its principal website at https://www.verisign.com and serves as a foundational component of internet operations worldwide.
The company's core business centers on operating authoritative registries for top-level domains, most notably the .com and .net generic top-level domains, which support the majority of global e-commerce. VeriSign also operates registries for .name, .cc, and various internationalized domain name extensions, while providing back-end technical services for the .edu top-level domain. Additionally, the company performs the Root Zone Maintainer function for the internet's Domain Name System and operates two of the thirteen global root servers that contain authoritative data for the DNS hierarchy. These services enable individuals and organizations to establish online identities and provide secure, always-on access for internet communications and transactions.
VeriSign's operations infrastructure consists of secure data centers in Dulles, Ashburn, and New Castle, complemented by more than 200 points of presence globally. The company's servers process hundreds of billions of transactions daily through its proprietary Shared Registration System, which allows registrars to manage domain name registrations, and its ATLAS distributed lookup system for DNS resolution.
As of December 31, 2025, VeriSign employed 928 full-time employees, with approximately 93 percent based in the United States and 7 percent internationally. The workforce comprises approximately 30 percent female employees and 46 percent ethnically and racially diverse U.S. employees, with an average tenure of approximately 11 years.
The company operates under registry agreements with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and maintains a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding .com operations. VeriSign's business model benefits from long-term contracts, recurring revenue streams from domain name registrations, and the essential nature of DNS infrastructure to internet functionality. The company's competitive advantages include its established market position in the .com and .net registries, proprietary technology systems, global infrastructure, and deep expertise in DNS operations and security.
Company details
- Sector
- Information Technology
- Industry (SIC)
- Computer Services
- Headquarters
- RESTON, VA
- Fiscal year end
- December
- CIK
- 1014473
- SIC
- 7371
Financial performance, year by year
Fiscal 2013–2025 · USDThe full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.
Who owns Verisign — and what changed
Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30
Superinvestors in Verisign · what they did last quarter
Share of each manager’s reported 13F portfolio. Change is in shares held, since the previous quarter.
Largest fund holders · Verisign’s weight in each
Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.
Verisign’s bonds, as funds hold them
Funds report holding 4 issues of Verisign’s debt, $331.75M at market value — what funds hold, not the company’s total debt. Weighted-average coupon 4.11%, maturing 2027 to 2032.
Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.
Fund ownership is a subset of institutional 13F ownership — the two describe overlapping populations and must not be added together.
Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.
Recent filings
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