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Comments for VRSN

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faulkwolf	having legal issues and is a one trick pony	Hate	July 10, 2009
barrons3	Obvious examples abound everywhere: New York Times(NYT), Sara Lee(SLE), Las Vegas Sands (LVS), RF Micro Devices (RFMD) (among so many techs with so much debt), VeriSign(VRSN), Weatherford(WFT) (along with a lot of oil service companies with debt) and most of the restaurant chains, big and small.	Love	January 29, 2009
barrons3	Najarian mentioned that Obama wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal that was bullish on the broadband infrastructure build-out. He said to look at names like Akamai Technologies(AKAM), VeriSign(VRSN) and Broadcom(BRCM) to play the potential build-out.	Love	November 05, 2008
JimBehling	gift	Love	December 06, 2007
sbehel	COMPLIANCE COMPANY, MUCH NEEDED	Love	November 28, 2007
ptrrrr	undervalued, growth	Love	September 21, 2007
sarah z	The company, which controls the “.com” domain, announced a $1.1 billion buyback representing nearly 15% of the company’s total market cap. Most analysts expected the buyback and recognize it as a way for management to return value to shareholders. But W.R. Hambrecht analyst Robert Stimson sees it as a defensive play. He says VeriSign may be trying to inflate the stock price to prevent a takeover or at least force the bidder to offer a higher price. Stimson believes Symantec and Comcast could be possible buyers of the internet company. Last Tuesday, the Mountain View, Calif.-based company named founder Jim Bidzos as chairman for the second time. Bidzos founded the company back in 1995 to develop “a secure infrastructure for handling commerce over the internet using encryption technology.” He said in an interview, "We are going to enter businesses that leverage our wiring and plumbing capabilities that extend services to different customers and different markets as well as additional services to existing markets." CIBC World Markets view the election of Bidzos as a positive for VRSN, given his accomplishments in the internet and security industry. The reinstatement of Bidzos highlights the fact that VRSN is focusing on expanding its core businesses. The company will continue to restructure and possibly cut off its low margin communication businesses. CIBC maintains their sector outperform rating and $35 price target for VRSN given the CEO change, hefty $1.1 billion buyback, and full year 07 restructured cost savings worth $50 million.	Love	August 22, 2007
Monque	New CEO should straighten out their act, return to core business. Upgrading internet capability, future expansion of domain extension registrations.	Love	August 09, 2007
lakers49	Someone resigned; short sold	Love	July 17, 2007
sammaguire	I just renewed the Security WEb license and there is no other choice than VRSN. The fee was around $995.00 for the lowest end license and was yet again a nightmare to install. Customer service was great and its a necessary evil.The fact that there are so many barriers to entry and more and more sites requiring security certificates to do business this stock is a must buy.	Love	July 15, 2007
GiggaloJack	I intend to shot this stock simply because it looks like it should fall.	Love	July 04, 2007
pgjenkins	gorilla pick	Love	July 01, 2007
mk95035	ESPP plan	Love	June 01, 2007
fnftynftynu	Shares Held 5,679,900-- 1.49% of Portfolio	Love	May 25, 2007
BudH	Security!	Love	May 17, 2007
Griff003	The internet isn't going anywhere folks. Verisign is the leader in internet and website security.	Love	May 01, 2007
realsparky	own	Love	April 04, 2007
Kip Largo	Online security is the new criminal playground. Verisign are the police force. Not to mention domain distribution and smart aquisitions.	Love	March 16, 2007
Raymond K. Wedmore	Gorilla pick	Love	February 06, 2007
Tim Gueravese	growth	Love	January 27, 2007
rwhitf	Employee	Love	January 25, 2007
Greg NTG1 Parker	5 years ago this company traded at $30.00 and had no earnings. Now this company trades at $24.50 and has no earnings. The emperor has no clothes.	Hate	January 17, 2007
mark wilson	strong domain name business	Love	January 16, 2007
Charles Kerns	Verisign looking to hit $30	Love	January 11, 2007
Pam	The granddady of the domain name business is Verisign, which is the provider of all the .com and .net domain names. All of the registrars are simply reselling the domain names they acquire through Verisign. VRSN has a clean balance sheet with $500mm in net cash and trades also for just a little over ten times cash flows.	Love	January 09, 2007
Charles Weed	Presently is in low volume pullback from brkout from 8 month cup without handle	Love	January 09, 2007
Jim Leask	growth	Hate	January 03, 2007