Chapter 1. BUILDING A TECHNICAL COMMUNITY
Angelique Finan and Grady Bryant
The first years of the twenty-first century were a period of tremendous growth for VeriSign, a provider of Internet infrastructure services. By late 2006, the company comprised 15 business units operating out of 73 locations globally. This growth was in part the result of 47 acquisitions. VeriSign, originally focused on digital certificates, took on a variety of Internet and telecom businesses, including Internet-based payment processing, management of the .com and .net registries, international mobile phone roaming services, mobile phone payment services, management of customer premise security devices, Voice over IP (VOIP) services, SS7 signaling services, and distribution ...
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