Verisign
Information Technology
26
out of 100. Number 448 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Verisign does well
- Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- No forced arbitration anywhere — disputes go to a state or federal court (Terms of Use Sec. 1.1.12).
- Verisign states it does not sell or share personal information as defined by law and does not do targeted advertising or behavioral profiling.
- For .com and .net (its flagship TLDs), Verisign says it does not collect any personal information about the registrant — data collection is limited to what ICANN mandates.
- Material changes to the Privacy Statement require a prominent notice on the sites or by email.
- Express opt-in consent is required before marketing unrelated products or sharing personal information outside the Verisign group for marketing.
Post anything on Verisign's site (a comment, review, forum message) and they get a permanent, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, change, republish, and sell-on your content — and they never have to give it back.
The fine print
6 clauses and findings from the draft archive, dated 1 October 2026. The plain English comes first; the small print is the company's own words. None of these has been checked yet.
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Post anything on Verisign's site (a comment, review, forum message) and they get a permanent, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, change, republish, and sell-on your content — and they never have to give it back.
By submitting content or information, you grant Verisign a fully paid, nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to reproduce, use, modify, publish, adapt, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content, either alone or in conjunction with Verisign products and services, throughout the world in any media or format.
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Don't send anything private through their website forms or forums — by policy, they treat everything you submit as public.
Any material, information, or other communication you transmit or post to this Site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary.
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Your personal data can be handed to outside research organizations for DNS research and to government entities for 'security purposes' — without asking you first.
We will share personal information for DNS research activities. / We will share personal information for information sharing and other security purposes.
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If your browser is set to ask sites not to track you, Verisign ignores it.
We do not respond to Do Not Track signals.
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Verisign can use your personal information without telling you or getting your permission, whenever the law allows it.
Please note that we may process your personal information without your knowledge or consent where this is required or permitted by law.
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Outside Europe, analytics tracking cookies are switched on for you by default — you have to opt out rather than opt in.
If you access our Covered Sites outside of Europe, we may enable both strictly necessary and analytic cookies by default, and all other cookies are disabled unless you choose to enable them.
How these were found
Documents read in full via browser_open on the official verisign.com domain on 2026-10-01: (1) Terms of Use, http://www.verisign.com/legal-center/terms-of-use/ (no version date shown; includes Sec. 1.1 'reserves the right to modify content on the Site and these Terms of Use periodically without prior notice'); (2) Privacy Statement Version 3.4b, Last Updated and Effective Dec. 18, 2025, http://www.verisign.com/legal-center/privacy/ (1393 lines, read end to end). No mirrors needed; no pages blocked. Verisign is a B2B domain registry (no consumer subscriptions), so the Terms of Use covers the website itself and the privacy statement covers registry/website data — scored accordingly.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.