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REUTERS ABRIDGED BUSINESS SUMMARY
VeriSign, Inc. provides critical infrastructure services that enable Website owners, enterprises, communications and e-commerce service providers and individuals to engage in secure digital commerce and communications. The Internet Services Group consists of two business units: security services, which provides products and services that enable enterprises and service providers to establish and deliver secure Internet-based services to customers, and registry services, which acts as the exclusive registry of domain names in the .com and .net generic top-level domains and certain country code top-level domains. The Telecommunication Services Group provides signaling system 7 (SS7) network services, intelligent network services and wireless billing and customer care solutions to telecommunications carriers. Network Solutions, Inc. provides domain name registration and value-added services. In November 2003, the Company sold the Network Solutions domain name registrar business.
