About Verisign
What Does Verisign Do?
Verisign performs a critical — yet largely invisible — role: executing key functions that help maintain the security, stability, and resiliency of the Domain Name System (DNS) and the internet. This behind-the-scenes work helps ensure that people across the globe can connect online anytime, anywhere.
Enabling the World to Connect
Verisign, a global provider of critical internet infrastructure and domain name registry services, enables internet navigation for many of the world's most recognized domain names.
Verisign helps enable the security, stability, and resiliency of the Domain Name System (DNS) and the internet by providing root zone maintainer services, operating two of the 13 global internet root servers, and providing registration services and authoritative resolution for the .com and .net top-level domains, which support the majority of global e-commerce.
60+
nations
on six continents with resolution sites around the globe
450+
billion
DNS transactions per day
28+
years
of uninterrupted .com and .net DNS resolution
Unparalleled Resiliency, Availability, and Accuracy
Our proprietary DNS registration infrastructure and tools are built for dependability amidst an ever-evolving cyberthreat environment.
Verisign has provided uninterrupted resolution services for the .com and .net top-level domains since 1997.
Collaborating at Global Scale
As the internet’s root zone maintainer and manager of two of the world’s 13 root servers, we are committed to leadership in maintaining the effective function and role of the DNS, working with government regulators, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), industry groups, and law enforcement authorities to combat DNS-related security threats and illegal activity.
Internet Stewardship
Under our Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce, the .com registry must remain content neutral - ensuring equal access to .com domain names for all legal website content, regardless of viewpoint. The Cooperative Agreement also underscores ICANN's high specifications for operational performance, as set out in the .com Registry Agreement.
No other registry has such wide-ranging obligations to the global internet community. Subject to satisfying these obligations, we perform the more visible aspects of our business, providing registry services for .com and our other popular TLDs.
We manage relationships with approximately 2,400 ICANN-accredited registrars who typically submit more than 100 million domain name transactions daily and we are committed to investing in our DNS infrastructure to meet ever growing demand, as global internet engagement continues to grow. Verisign operates a proprietary DNS registration infrastructure and toolset that is built for dependability in an ever-increasing cyber threat environment.
We share our expertise in evolving trends by making data about the .com and .net zones publicly available, and actively contribute to community policy and internet standards development.
Defined by Our Mission
Our impact extends beyond the critical internet infrastructure we operate to include our communities throughout the world, our employees, and how we operate every aspect of our business. We hold ourselves to a higher standard in all that we do.
Our History
