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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001014473-24-000029"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VRSN"
cik: "0001014473"
company_name: "VERISIGN INC/CA"
filed_at: "2024-06-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T00:23:21.896071+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Verisign rebuts advocacy claims that .com agreement can be terminated Aug 2

## Summary
- Letters from American Economic Liberties Project and others on June 26, 2024 to US Departments of Commerce/Justice and White House Competition Council.
- Letters assert .com Cooperative Agreement can be terminated by DOC on August 2, 2024, and management transferred via bidding.
- Verisign states assertion is wrong: .com registry continues under valid ICANN Registry Agreement regardless of Cooperative Agreement status.
- Verisign notes campaign and letters contain falsehoods and ignore clear language of agreements, US policy, and ICANN role.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001014473-24-000029
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VRSN
- cik: 0001014473
- company_name: VERISIGN INC/CA
- filed_at: 2024-06-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1014473/000101447324000029/0001014473-24-000029-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1014473/000101447324000029/vrsn-20240628.htm

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