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Verisign, Inc.
VRSN · NASDAQSoftware & Internet Infrastructure
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Company details
Market cap
$24B
P/E ratio
29×
Div yield
1.2%
EPS (TTM)
$8.81
Profit margin
50%
Rev. growth
+6%
Revenue
$1.66B
Free cash flow
$1.07B
In plain English
Verisign runs the .com and .net domain registries — the authoritative phone book for ~173M of the internet's most valuable addresses — under a contract that makes it the sole operator of .com through 2030. It never sells to you directly: it charges registrars like GoDaddy a fixed wholesale fee for every name, a near-monopoly toll that converts ~65% of revenue to operating profit.
In simple terms
What Verisign, Inc. really sells
Verisign runs the .com and .net domain registries — the authoritative phone book for ~173M of the internet's most valuable addresses — under a contract that makes it the sole operator of .com through 2030. It never sells to you directly: it charges registrars like GoDaddy a fixed wholesale fee for every name, a near-monopoly toll that converts ~65% of revenue to operating profit.
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