Verisign Inc - ESG Rating & Company Profile powered by AI
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Verisign Inc in the IT Services & Consulting industry gained a UN SDG ESG Transparency Score of 2.9; made up of an environmental score of 2.0, social score of 2.7 and governance score of 4.0.
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Peer Group Comparison
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| 1 | CES Ltd | 8.0 | High |
| 1 | Capgemini Technology Services India Ltd | 8.0 | High |
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| 406 | Neural Pocket Inc | 3.0 | Medium |
| 406 | CloudMD Software & Services Inc | 3.0 | Medium |
| 410 | Verisign Inc | 2.9 | Medium |
| 410 | Marqeta Inc | 2.9 | Medium |
| 410 | DeNA Co Ltd | 2.9 | Medium |
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| 663 | transtec AG | 0.0 | Low |
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VeriSign, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides domain name registry services and internet infrastructure that enables internet navigation for various recognized domain names worldwide. It enables the security, stability, and resiliency of internet infrastructure and services, including providing root zone maintainer services, operating two of the 13 internet root servers; and offering registration services and authoritative resolution for the .com and .net domains, which support global e-commerce. The company also back-end systems for .cc, .gov, .edu, and .name domain names, as well as operates distributed servers, networking, security, and data integrity services. VeriSign, Inc. was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.

