# Who does VeriSign, Inc. pay? Who are its key suppliers?
Canonical: https://valuechain.wiki/verisign · Facet: suppliers · Updated: 2026-09-24T04:39:44.345304+00:00 · Source: ValueChain.wiki (cited money-flow graph)

**Citable summary**: VeriSign, Inc.'s confirmed suppliers/cost counterparties include Equinix, Inc. plus 1 undisclosed/aggregate relationship. Per the valuechain.wiki graph: 2 cost edges, backed by 2 dated sources, 1 of them primary filings (as of 2026-09-24).

### Nu Dotco LLC (high)
- metric: Amount $145M · as of FY2025 year-end · Cumulative deposit paid for the future assignment of contractual rights to .web
- note: Verisign paid US$145.2 million for the future assignment of Nu Dotco's contractual rights to the .web top-level domain. Because ICANN proceedings and objections remained unresolved, the amount was still recorded as a deposit to acquire intangible assets at year-end 2025.
- [confirms] U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR (EN, filing, published 2026-02-05) https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1014473/000101447326000006/vrsn-20251231.htm: "its eventual assignment to Verisign"

### ICANN (high)
- metric: Amount 0.258 USD/domain-year · FY2025 · ICANN fee per annual term of a .com registration or renewal
- note: Verisign pays ICANN a fee for each annual term of a .com registration or renewal. The 2025 rate was US$0.2575 per domain-year.
- [confirms] U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR (EN, filing, published 2026-02-05) https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1014473/000101447326000006/R19.htm: "these fees increased to $0.2575 for each annual term"

### Equinix (mid)  → /equinix.md
- note: In 2010, Verisign described Equinix as a long-time data-center service provider and said it had chosen the company as a partner for jointly marketing cloud-based services on the Equinix platform. The public disclosure does not establish whether the relationship remains current or state the amount paid.
- [confirms] Equinix (EN, ir, published 2010-11-11) https://equinix.mediaroom.com/2010-11-11-Equinix-Helps-Businesses-Succeed-in-Growing-Digital-Economy: "We chose Equinix, a long time data center service provider, as a partner for jointly marketing new cloud-based solutions"

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