M&A Deal Summary |
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|---|---|
| Date | 2020-11-02 |
| Target | Verisign’s Public DNS Service |
| Sector | Information Technology |
| Buyer(s) | NeuStar |
| Sellers(s) | VeriSign |
| Deal Type | Divestiture |
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| Category | Company |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1996 |
| Sector | Information Services |
| Revenue | 1.1B USD (2015) |
NeuStar is a global information services provider driving the connected world forward with trusted, holistic identity resolution. The company serves many of the world’s brands to grow and guard their businesses with the most complete understanding of how to connect people, places, and things. The combination of Neustar’s unique, accurate and real-time identity system and its cloud-based workflow solutions empower businesses to make actionable, precise, and valuable decisions across marketing, risk, IT/security, network & operations departments. As the current sole provider to the U.S. Number Portability Administration Center, Neustar also facilitates the routing of all telephone call and text messages in the U.S. NeuStar was formed in 1996 and is based in Sterling, Virginia.
| DEAL STATS | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 17 of 17 |
| Sector: Information Technology M&A | 4 of 4 |
| Type: Divestiture M&A Deals | 4 of 4 |
| State: Virginia M&A | 4 of 4 |
| Country: United States M&A | 15 of 15 |
| Year: 2020 M&A | 1 of 1 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-04-06 |
NeuStar - Registry business
Sterling, Virginia, United States NeuStar, Inc. - Registry business includes an extensive portfolio of top-level domains, including .biz, .co, .in, .nyc and .us, and supports more than 215 TLDs and approximately 12 million domains. |
Sell | - |
| Category | Company |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1995 |
| Sector | Information Technology |
| Employees | 907 |
| Revenue | 1.6B USD (2024) |
VeriSign provides domain name registry services to power the navigation of the Internet by operating a global infrastructure for a portfolio of top-level domains that includes .com, .net, .tv, .edu, .gov, .jobs, .name and .cc as well as two of the world’s 13 Internet root servers. The company's product suite also includes Network Intelligence and Availability Services, consisting of Distributed Denial of Service Protection Services, Verisign iDefense Security Intelligence Services and Managed Domain Name System Services. VeriSign was formed in 1995 and is based in Reston, Virginia.
| DEAL STATS | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 7 of 7 |
| Sector: Information Technology M&A | 4 of 4 |
| Type: Divestiture M&A Deals | 7 of 7 |
| State: Virginia M&A | 5 of 5 |
| Country: United States M&A | 7 of 7 |
| Year: 2020 M&A | 2 of 2 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-10-08 |
RSi
San Jose, California, United States Retail Solutions, Inc. is a provider of Big Data, predictive analytics for the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry. Retail Solutions collects and transforms billions of data points on what shoppers are buying every day and makes it insightful and actionable for better tactical and strategic decision-making at the corporate level and in the field. Retail Solutions was founded in 2003 and is based in San Jose, California. |
Sell | - |
