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Government Contractors | Technology 2025: BIDZOS, D. JAMES
EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT AND CEO, VERISIGN, RESTON
Virginia Business //September 1, 2025//
Government Contractors | Technology 2025: BIDZOS, D. JAMES
EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT AND CEO, VERISIGN, RESTON
Virginia Business //September 1, 2025//
A native of Greece, Bidzos is an internet and cybersecurity pioneer and an early advocate for encrypted commercial software. VeriSign, a company he founded in 1995 as a spinoff of RSA Data Security, is the world’s largest internet domain name registration and infrastructure provider. Any address with a .com or .net domain suffix is registered with the S&P 500 company.
More than 368 million domains ending in .com or .net were registered in the first quarter of 2025. In November 2024, the company announced the renewal of its .com registry agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and Warren Buffett purchased 378,000 shares in VeriSign for about $74 million in December, bringing his company Berkshire Hathaway’s total ownership to 13 million shares worth $2.6 billion.
Bidzos began his career at IBM in the 1970s, served as president and CEO of RSA Data Security and co-founded RSA Laboratories, a cybersecurity research organization that created early encryption software.
VeriSign reported revenue of $1.56 billion in 2024, up 4.3% from the previous year.
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