VeriSign, Inc.

The full register, from 13F filings

The Register tab above is hand research: a dozen holders, each traced to the filing it came from. This asks the same question of the whole market for the quarter ended 31-mar-2026, where 838 managers reported a position. Broad where the research is deep, and shallow in the ways a 13F always is.

Built from 13F filings, which report US listed, long, US custodied positions only. A register from this source is a floor rather than a level: a holder's true position can be far larger, as BlackRock's ASML stake shows at 1.28m shares in a 13F against 26.3m in its 13G/A. Holdings held through derivatives, outside US custody, or below a manager's reporting obligation do not appear. Where a holder is marked as a family, its total sums several separate filing entities and describes something no single filing describes; the constituent entities and their share counts are listed so the total can be checked. That roll-up can legitimately exceed the family's own Schedule 13G, because a 13G is filed by one legal entity: Vanguard reports Alphabet through ten advisory entities, and The Vanguard Group Inc itself reported zero after its January 2026 disaggregation.

What a reader needs to know to read these numbers

• Berkshire Hathaway verified independently: python3 scripts/filing.py 13f on https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067983/000119312526352200/56757.xml VERISIGN returns 8,989,880 shares, $2,261,494,212 across 2 information-table lines, exactly matching the figure already recorded in data/research/berkshire.json. No disagreement to record; this is an AGREE case.
• Holdings side is genuinely empty. Searched the FY2025 10-K (filed 2026-02-05, accession 0001014473-26-000006) and the Q2 2026 10-Q (filed 2026-07-23, accession 0001014473-26-000028) for the terms 'equity method', 'unconsolidated', 'non-marketable'/'nonmarketable', 'minority interest', 'equity securities', 'strategic investment', 'joint venture', 'investments in' and 'affiliate'. The only hits were: the 'Equity Securities' item heading (Item 5, which covers VeriSign's own share repurchases, not an investment) and 'investments in' referring to VeriSign's own money market funds and debt securities (Treasury/marketable-debt holdings, explicitly excluded by the brief). Also checked Exhibit 21.01 (incorporated by reference from the FY2024 10-K, filed 2025-02-13): a bare 13-entity subsidiary name list with a jurisdiction column and no ownership-percentage column, and every entity is a wholly-owned VeriSign subsidiary (e.g. VeriSign Naming and Directory Services LLC, VeriSign India Private Limited), not a joint venture or minority stake. VeriSign's registry agreements with ICANN and its .com/.net contracts are commercial arrangements, not equity stakes, per the brief.
• Capital Group checked and found to hold nothing: all three registrants (Capital World Investors CIK 0001422849, Capital International Investors CIK 0001562230, Capital Research Global Investors CIK 0001422848) were read from their own Q2 2026 13F-HR information tables; none contains a VeriSign row. Recorded here as a note, not a null row, per the project's rule that a checked-and-zero holder is a note.
• Self-gate (computed on this final file, using the chart's exact arithmetic): 13 register rows, raw share sum 49,531,506; after reducing the 'All current directors and Executive Officers as a group' row by Bidzos's 389,602 shares (the only named member rolled into it), the charted total is 49,141,904 shares against shares_outstanding 90,300,000, i.e. 54.42%. This sits at the high end of, but inside, the 15-55% expected band. It is explained by VeriSign's heavily reduced float (share count fell from 96.1 million in Oct 2024 to 90.3 million in Jul 2026 on buybacks) stacked with a ~10% strategic holder (Berkshire) on top of concentrated institutional ownership (Vanguard family 12.50%, BlackRock 9.32%, AQR 5.48%).
• shares_outstanding 90,300,000 is dei:EntityCommonStockSharesOutstanding from the cover page of the Q2 2026 10-Q (filed 2026-07-23), 'as of July 17, 2026'. This matches stockanalysis.com's 90.30 million figure checked on 2026-08-19.
• market_cap_usd is sourced to stockanalysis.com (aggregator), not a filing; flagged as such because the field itself is not covered by the filed/estimated confidence enum used on register and holdings rows.