Table of Contents
76 relations: Anycast, Ashburn, Virginia, California, Certificate authority, Chair (officer), Chief executive officer, Chief financial officer, Cloudflare, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Code signing, Country code top-level domain, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Delaware General Corporation Law, Denial-of-service attack, DigiCert, Domain name registrar, Domain name registry, Domain name scam, Domain Name System, Dulles, Virginia, E-commerce, East Coast of the United States, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Equinix, Gen Digital, General Services Administration, GoDaddy, Google, Google Chrome, ICANN, Internet, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, IT History Society, James Bidzos, Microsoft, Mountain View, California, National Science Foundation, Network Solutions, Neustar, Northern Virginia, President (corporate title), Public company, Public Interest Registry, Public key infrastructure, Reston Town Center, Reston, Virginia, Root name server, RSA Conference, RSA Security, S&P 500, ... Expand index (26 more) »
- 1995 establishments in Virginia
- Computer companies established in 1995
- DDoS mitigation companies
- Domain name registries
- Domain name seizures by United States
- Former certificate authorities
Anycast
Anycast is a network addressing and routing methodology in which a single IP address is shared by devices (generally servers) in multiple locations. Verisign and Anycast are domain Name System.
Ashburn, Virginia
Ashburn is a rapidly growing census-designated place (CDP) in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States.
See Verisign and Ashburn, Virginia
California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
Certificate authority
In cryptography, a certificate authority or certification authority (CA) is an entity that stores, signs, and issues digital certificates.
See Verisign and Certificate authority
Chair (officer)
The chair, also chairman, chairwoman, or chairperson, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly.
See Verisign and Chair (officer)
Chief executive officer
A chief executive officer (CEO) (chief executive (CE), or managing director (MD) in the UK) is the highest officer charged with the management of an organization especially a company or nonprofit institution.
See Verisign and Chief executive officer
Chief financial officer
A chief financial officer (CFO), also known as a treasurer, is an officer of a company or organization who is assigned the primary responsibility for making decisions for the company for projects and its finances (financial planning, management of financial risks, record-keeping, and financial reporting, and often the analysis of data).
See Verisign and Chief financial officer
Cloudflare
Cloudflare, Inc. is an American company that provides content delivery network services, cloud cybersecurity, DDoS mitigation, Domain Name Service, and ICANN-accredited domain registration services. Verisign and Cloudflare are DDoS mitigation companies and internet technology companies of the United States.
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
The Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Pulu Kokos), officially the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Pulu Kokos), are an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean, comprising a small archipelago approximately midway between Australia and Sri Lanka and relatively close to the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
See Verisign and Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Code signing
Code signing is the process of digitally signing executables and scripts to confirm the software author and guarantee that the code has not been altered or corrupted since it was signed.
Country code top-level domain
A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state, or dependent territory identified with a country code. Verisign and country code top-level domain are domain Name System.
See Verisign and Country code top-level domain
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is a component of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) responsible for cybersecurity and infrastructure protection across all levels of government, coordinating cybersecurity programs with U.S. states, and improving the government's cybersecurity protections against private and nation-state hackers.
See Verisign and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Delaware General Corporation Law
The Delaware General Corporation Law (Title 8, Chapter 1 of the Delaware Code) is the statute of the Delaware Code that governs corporate law in the U.S. state of Delaware.
See Verisign and Delaware General Corporation Law
Denial-of-service attack
In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to a network.
See Verisign and Denial-of-service attack
DigiCert
DigiCert, Inc. is a digital security company headquartered in Lehi, Utah.
Domain name registrar
A domain name registrar is a company, person, or office that manages the reservation of Internet domain names. Verisign and domain name registrar are domain Name System.
See Verisign and Domain name registrar
Domain name registry
A domain name registry is a database of all domain names and the associated registrant information in the top level domains of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet that enables third party entities to request administrative control of a domain name. Verisign and domain name registry are domain Name System and domain name registries.
See Verisign and Domain name registry
Domain name scam
A domain name scam is a type of intellectual property scam or confidence scam in which unscrupulous domain name registrars attempt to generate revenue by tricking businesses into buying, selling, listing or converting a domain name.
See Verisign and Domain name scam
Domain Name System
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical and distributed name service that provides a naming system for computers, services, and other resources on the Internet or other Internet Protocol (IP) networks.
See Verisign and Domain Name System
Dulles, Virginia
Dulles is an unincorporated area in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States, and is part of the Washington metropolitan area.
See Verisign and Dulles, Virginia
E-commerce
E-commerce (electronic commerce) is the activity of electronically buying or selling products on online services or over the Internet.
East Coast of the United States
The East Coast of the United States, also known as the Eastern Seaboard, the Atlantic Coast, and the Atlantic Seaboard, is the region encompassing the coastline where the Eastern United States meets the Atlantic Ocean.
See Verisign and East Coast of the United States
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California.
See Verisign and Electronic Frontier Foundation
Equinix
Equinix, Inc. is an American multinational company headquartered in Redwood City, California, that specializes in Internet connection and data centers. Verisign and Equinix are companies listed on the Nasdaq.
Gen Digital
Gen Digital Inc. (formerly Symantec Corporation and NortonLifeLock) is a multinational software company co-headquartered in Tempe, Arizona and Prague, Czech Republic. Verisign and Gen Digital are companies listed on the Nasdaq and former certificate authorities.
General Services Administration
The General Services Administration (GSA) is an independent agency of the United States government established in 1949 to help manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies.
See Verisign and General Services Administration
GoDaddy
GoDaddy Inc. is an American publicly traded Internet domain registry, domain registrar and web hosting company headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, and incorporated in Delaware.
Google LLC is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI). Verisign and Google are internet technology companies of the United States.
Google Chrome
Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google.
See Verisign and Google Chrome
ICANN
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a global multistakeholder group and nonprofit organization headquartered in the United States responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespaces and numerical spaces of the Internet, ensuring the Internet's stable and secure operation. Verisign and ICANN are domain Name System and domain name registries.
Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is a standards organization that oversees global IP address allocation, autonomous system number allocation, root zone management in the Domain Name System (DNS), media types, and other Internet Protocol–related symbols and Internet numbers.
See Verisign and Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
IT History Society
The IT History Society (ITHS) is an organization that supports the history and scholarship of information technology by encouraging, fostering, and facilitating archival and historical research.
See Verisign and IT History Society
James Bidzos
Jim Bidzos is the founder of Verisign, Inc. and currently serves as the president and CEO.
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Verisign and Microsoft are companies listed on the Nasdaq.
Mountain View, California
Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States, part of the San Francisco Bay Area.
See Verisign and Mountain View, California
National Science Foundation
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering.
See Verisign and National Science Foundation
Network Solutions
Network Solutions, LLC, formerly Web.com is an American-based technology company and a subsidiary of Web.com, the 4th largest.com domain name registrar with over 6.7 million registrations as of August 2018.
See Verisign and Network Solutions
Neustar
Neustar, Inc. is an American technology company that provides real-time information and analytics for risk, digital performance, defense, telecommunications, entertainment, and marketing industries, and also provides clearinghouse and directory services to the global communications and Internet industries. Verisign and Neustar are corporate spin-offs and domain name registries.
Northern Virginia
Northern Virginia, locally referred to as NOVA or NoVA, comprises several counties and independent cities in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.
See Verisign and Northern Virginia
President (corporate title)
A president is a leader of an organization, company, community, club, trade union, university or other group.
See Verisign and President (corporate title)
Public company
A public company is a company whose ownership is organized via shares of stock which are intended to be freely traded on a stock exchange or in over-the-counter markets.
See Verisign and Public company
Public Interest Registry
Public Interest Registry is a not-for-profit based in Reston, Virginia, created by the Internet Society in 2002 to manage the.ORG top-level domain. Verisign and Public Interest Registry are domain name registries.
See Verisign and Public Interest Registry
Public key infrastructure
A public key infrastructure (PKI) is a set of roles, policies, hardware, software and procedures needed to create, manage, distribute, use, store and revoke digital certificates and manage public-key encryption.
See Verisign and Public key infrastructure
Reston Town Center
Reston Town Center (also known as RTC and locally as simply, Town Center) is a mixed-use urban development featuring offices, apartments, retail stores, and restaurants in Reston, Virginia owned and managed primarily by Boston Properties.
See Verisign and Reston Town Center
Reston, Virginia
Reston is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, and a principal city of both Northern Virginia and the Washington metropolitan area.
See Verisign and Reston, Virginia
Root name server
A root name server is a name server for the root zone of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. Verisign and root name server are domain Name System.
See Verisign and Root name server
RSA Conference
The RSA Conference is a series of IT security conferences.
See Verisign and RSA Conference
RSA Security
RSA Security LLC, formerly RSA Security, Inc. and trade name RSA, is an American computer and network security company with a focus on encryption and encryption standards. Verisign and RSA Security are former certificate authorities.
S&P 500
The Standard and Poor's 500, or simply the S&P 500, is a stock market index tracking the stock performance of 500 of the largest companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States.
Sallie Mae
SLM Corporation (commonly known as Sallie Mae; originally the Student Loan Marketing Association) is a publicly traded U.S. corporation that provides consumer banking. Verisign and Sallie Mae are companies listed on the Nasdaq.
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (also called the Exchange Act, '34 Act, or 1934 Act) (codified at et seq.) is a law governing the secondary trading of securities (stocks, bonds, and debentures) in the United States of America.
See Verisign and Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Sex.com
Sex.com is an Internet domain name and web portal currently owned by Clover Holdings LTD.
Single point of failure
A single point of failure (SPOF) is a part of a system that, if it fails, will stop the entire system from working.
See Verisign and Single point of failure
Site Finder
Site Finder was a wildcard DNS record for all.com and.net unregistered domain names, run by.com and.net top-level domain operator VeriSign between 15 September 2003 and 4 October 2003. Verisign and Site Finder are domain Name System.
Sponsored top-level domain
A sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) is one of the categories of top-level domains (TLDs) maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for use in the Domain Name System of the Internet, alongside country-code top-level domains (ccTLD) and generic top-level domains (gTLD).
See Verisign and Sponsored top-level domain
Sterling, Virginia
Sterling, Virginia, refers most specifically to a census-designated place (CDP) in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States.
See Verisign and Sterling, Virginia
Telecommunications
Telecommunication, often used in its plural form or abbreviated as telecom, is the transmission of information with an immediacy comparable to face-to-face communication.
See Verisign and Telecommunications
Top-level domain
A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet after the root domain. Verisign and top-level domain are domain Name System.
See Verisign and Top-level domain
Transport Layer Security
Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a cryptographic protocol designed to provide communications security over a computer network.
See Verisign and Transport Layer Security
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
See Verisign and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government, created in the aftermath of the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
See Verisign and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (in case citations, 9th Cir.) is the U.S. federal court of appeals that has appellate jurisdiction over the U.S. district courts in the following federal judicial districts.
See Verisign and United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
United States Department of Commerce
The United States Department of Commerce (DOC) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government concerned with creating the conditions for economic growth and opportunity.
See Verisign and United States Department of Commerce
Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.
WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks is a non-profit media organisation and publisher of leaked documents.
Zone file
A Domain Name System (DNS) zone file is a text file that describes a DNS zone. Verisign and zone file are domain Name System.
.cc
On the Internet,.cc is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian territory.
See Verisign and .cc
.com
The domain com is a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet.
.edu
The domain name.edu is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet.
.gov
The domain name gov is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet.
.jobs
.jobs is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet.
.name
The domain name is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet.
.net
The domain name net is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) used in the Domain Name System of the Internet.
.org
The domain name.org is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) of the Domain Name System (DNS) used on the Internet.
.tv
The domain name.tv is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Tuvalu.
See Verisign and .tv
See also
1995 establishments in Virginia
- Agents of Good Roots
- Armenian American Wellness Center
- Central Park (shopping complex)
- Clean Harbors 250
- Crawfords State Forest
- Danville Science Center
- Devil's Backbone State Forest
- Escape from Pompeii
- Franconia–Springfield station
- Hampton Roads Piranhas
- Inside Business (newspaper)
- International Launch Services
- Jiffy Lube Live
- Katsucon
- Legacy Museum of African American History
- Long John Silver's 200
- Lunenburg Correctional Center
- McCormack–Nagelsen Tennis Center
- Metro Richmond Zoo
- Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Launch Pad 0
- Mountain View Alternative High School
- Northern Neck Regional Jail
- School of Integrative Studies
- Sparklehorse
- United States Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory
- VCU College of Health Professions
- Vegan Awareness Foundation
- Verisign
- Virginia Beach Theological Seminary
- Virginia Organizing
- Virginia Spaceport Authority
- WIGO-FM
- WLFG
- WLRX (FM)
- WLTK
- WMRY
- WPIN (AM)
- WVBN-LP
- WVMP
- Williamsburg Youth Orchestra
- Zope
Computer companies established in 1995
- Aureal Semiconductor
- Centaur Technology
- Hasee
- MPC Corporation
- Marvell Technology
- Monorail Inc.
- NetLogic Microsystems
- Princeton (electronics company)
- Real3D
- Sentient Networks
- Silicon Image
- Silicon Motion
- Transmeta
- VM Labs
- Verisign
DDoS mitigation companies
- Arbor Networks
- CDNetworks
- Cloudflare
- DDoS-Guard
- Defense.Net
- Deflect.ca
- F5, Inc.
- Fastly
- Fireblade (company)
- Gcore
- Imperva
- Incapsula
- Instart
- Kemp Technologies
- Project Shield
- Prolexic Technologies
- Radware
- StackPath
- Verisign
Domain name registries
- Afilias
- Associação DNS.PT
- AusRegistry
- CZ.NIC
- Canadian Internet Registration Authority
- China Internet Network Information Center
- Coordination Center for TLD RU
- DENIC
- DNS Belgium
- Domain name registry
- DotCooperation
- GRS Domains
- ICANN
- Internet Computer Bureau
- Museum Domain Management Association
- NIC Argentina
- NIC México
- Neustar
- Nic.at
- Nominet UK
- Norid
- PKNIC
- Private sub-domain registry
- Public Interest Registry
- Saudi Network Information Center
- Syrian Computer Society
- Team Internet
- Technical Center of Internet
- Top Level Design
- Uniregistry
- Verisign
- ZADNA
Domain name seizures by United States
- BTC-e
- Backpage
- Cake Network
- Controversies surrounding GoDaddy
- Dark0de
- DeepDotWeb
- Domain name
- Doxbin (darknet)
- HadiTV
- KickassTorrents
- Kim Dotcom
- Liberty Reserve
- LuaLua TV
- Megaupload
- Megaupload legal case
- National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center
- OnSmash
- Operation D-Elite
- Operation In Our Sites
- Operation Protect Our Children
- PokerStars
- Press TV
- RaidForums
- Richard O'Dwyer
- SSNDOB
- Seizure of Megaupload
- Stormfront (website)
- Syrian Computer Society
- The Daily Stormer
- The iSONEWS
- United States v. Scheinberg
- Verisign
- Who Controls the Internet?
- Z-Library
Former certificate authorities
References
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