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Rodney Nelson
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VeriSign Delivers in Line 4Q; We Think Growth Will Remain Difficult to Find

VeriSign reported fourth-quarter results that were in line with our expectations, as the firm closed the year with over 146 million total domain name registrations. Although domain name growth rebounded to 3% in 2017 after a challenging 2016 (which faced a difficult compare following the introduction of internationalized .com domains in China in 2015), we continue to think domain name growth above 3% will be difficult to come by long term. Management reflected this view in its guidance, which ca...
Underlying
VeriSign Inc.

Verisign is a provider of domain name registry services and internet infrastructure, enabling internet navigation for domain names. The company enables the security, stability, and resiliency of main internet infrastructure and services, including providing root zone maintainer services, operating internet root servers, and providing registration services and authoritative resolution for the .com and .net top-level domains, which support the majority of global e-commerce. The company operates the authoritative directory of and/or the back-end systems for all .com, .net, .cc, .tv, .gov, .jobs, .edu and .name domain names, among others. The company also provides internationalized domain name services.

Provider
Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Rodney Nelson

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