VeriSign, Inc. an US-American enterprise and the operator of the Top are level Domains .com and .net. In addition VeriSign certification body for digital certificates and operators of the DNS root servers is "‚A `and "‚J `.

On 16 September 2003 VeriSign furnished a standard entry (*-Wildcard) for all not existing Domainnamen under .com and .net, which returned Browserbenutzer to a VeriSign Website named Site Finder with information to VeriSign products and left to partner sides.

For this procedure VeriSign mean competition and the offence against valid Internet standards was accused. After the ICANN had examined the affair, she exerted pressure on VeriSign, so that the standard entry at the beginning of of Octobers was taken back.

2004 acquired VeriSign the company Jamba!.

2006 acquired VeriSign the company 3united.

Acting partner

Stratton SclavosChairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

Related links

• VeriSign Website
• Report on Slashdot to the Wildcard incident
• Report on Heise.de to the Wildcard incident

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