Verisign's former CFO Brian Robins announced in August 2010 that the company would move from its original domicile of Mountain View, California to Dulles in Northern Virginia by 2011 due to 95% of the company's business being on the East Coast.
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It is also the contracted registry operator for the .name and .gov top-level domains as well as the country code top-level domains .cc (Cocos Islands) and .tv (Tuvalu).
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On November 29, 2010, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (U.S. ICE) issued seizure orders against 82 Web sites with .
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is an American company based in Reston, Virginia, United States that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the .com, .net, and .name generic top-level domains and the .cc and .tv country-code top-level domains, and the back-end systems for the .jobs, and .edu top-level domains.
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Many operating systems and frameworks contain built-in trust for one or more existing CAs (such as VeriSign/Symantec, DigiCert, TC TrustCenter, Comodo, GoDaddy, GlobalSign and StartCom).
In May 2008, VeriSign, as part of a divestiture, sold Kontiki to MK Capital.
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In March, 2006, the company was acquired by VeriSign (now Symantec).
On May 5, 2008, MK Capital announced it had completed the acquisition of Kontiki from VeriSign.
In a noteworthy example, a certificate for Microsoft was mistakenly issued to an unknown individual, who had successfully posed as Microsoft to the CA contracted to maintain the ActiveX 'publisher certificate' system (VeriSign).
The project was contracted by FVAP to Accenture, who in turn subcontracted Avenade, Hart InterCivic, Hewlett-Packard, VeriSign, election.com, and others.
In late 2004, VeriSign bought a relatively small Berlin-based company called Jamba for $270 million.
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VeriSign CEO Stratton Sclavos recognised that with VoIP products developing, the revenues could decrease.