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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001014473-17-000039
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20170728

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			VERISIGN INC/CA
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001014473
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	SERVICES-COMPUTER PROGRAMMING SERVICES [7371]
		IRS NUMBER:				943221585
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		12061 BLUEMONT WAY
		STREET 2:		ATTN: GENERAL COUNSEL
		CITY:			RESTON
		STATE:			VA
		ZIP:			20190
		BUSINESS PHONE:		7039483200

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		12061 BLUEMONT WAY
		STREET 2:		ATTN: GENERAL COUNSEL
		CITY:			RESTON
		STATE:			VA
		ZIP:			20190
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<div><a name="s9669DF762A8C1DAE5E63801A346F3603"></a></div><div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#160;</font></div></div><div><br></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;">VERISIGN, INC.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">12061 Bluemont Way</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">Reston, Virgina 20190</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">(703) 948-3200</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">July 28, 2017</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-top:16px;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;text-decoration:underline;">VIA EDGAR</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-top:16px;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">Securities and Exchange Commission <br>100 F Street, N.E. <br>Washington, D.C.  20549</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#32;<br></font></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="padding-top:16px;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt;"><tr><td style="width:84px;"></td><td></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top"><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:12pt;padding-left:54px;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">Re:</font></div></td><td style="vertical-align:top;"><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;">VeriSign, Inc. Registration Statement on Form S-4 </font></div></td></tr></table><div style="line-height:120%;padding-top:16px;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">Ladies and Gentlemen:</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-top:16px;text-align:left;text-indent:48px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">This letter is sent on behalf of VeriSign, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;text-decoration:underline;">Issuer</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#8221;), in connection with the above referenced Registration Statement on Form S-4 (the&#160;&#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;text-decoration:underline;">Registration Statement</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#8221;) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the&#160;&#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;text-decoration:underline;">Commission</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#8221;) by the Issuer pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;text-decoration:underline;">Securities Act</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#8221;), relating to the proposed offering by the Issuer to exchange (the &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;text-decoration:underline;">Exchange Offer</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#8221;) up to $550,000,000 aggregate amount of the Issuer&#8217;s 4.750% Senior Notes due 2027 (the &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;text-decoration:underline;">Exchange Notes</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#8221;) for a like principal amount of the Issuer&#8217;s outstanding 4.750% Senior Notes due 2027 (the &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;text-decoration:underline;">Original Notes</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#8221;). </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-top:16px;text-align:left;text-indent:48px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">The Issuer is registering the Exchange Offer pursuant to the Registration Statement in reliance on the position enunciated by the staff of the Commission (the &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;text-decoration:underline;">Staff</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#8221;) in </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;">Exxon Capital Holdings Corp.</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">, SEC No-action letter available May 13, 1988, </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;">Morgan Stanley &amp; Co.</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">, SEC No-action letter available June 5, 1991, and </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;">Shearman &amp; Sterling</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">, SEC No-action letter available July 2, 1993.  The Issuer has not entered into any arrangement or understanding with any person who will receive the Exchange Notes in the Exchange Offer to distribute those Exchange notes following completion of the Exchange Offer and, to the best of the Issuer&#8217;s information and belief, each person participating in the Exchange Offer will be acquiring the Exchange Notes in its ordinary course of business and has no arrangement or understanding with any person to participate in the distribution of the Exchange Notes to be received in the Exchange Offer.  In this regard, the Issuer will make each person participating in the Exchange Offer aware (through the Exchange Offer prospectus) that any person using the Exchange Offer to participate in a distribution of the Exchange Notes to be received in the Exchange Offer (1)&#160;cannot rely on the Staff&#8217;s position enunciated in the </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;">Exxon Capital </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">SEC No-action letter or similar letters of the Staff and (2)&#160;must comply with registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any secondary resale transaction and be identified as an underwriter in the prospectus.  The Issuer acknowledges that such a secondary resale transaction </font></div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:9pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:9pt;"><br></font></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;"><br></font></div></div><div><br></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-top:16px;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">should be covered by an effective registration statement containing the selling securityholder information required by Item&#160;507 of Regulation S&#8209;K.  </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;padding-top:16px;text-align:left;text-indent:48px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">The Issuer will include in the transmittal letter or similar documentation an acknowledgement to be executed by each person participating in the Exchange Offer as follows:</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;padding-left:48px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">The undersigned represents that it is not participating, does not intend to participate, and has no arrangement or understanding with anyone to participate, in the distribution (within the meaning of the Securities Act) of the exchange notes. If the undersigned is a broker-dealer that will receive exchange notes for its own account in exchange for original notes that were acquired as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities, it represents and acknowledges that it will deliver a prospectus (or to the extent permitted by law, make available a prospectus to purchasers) meeting the requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale of such exchange notes; however, by so acknowledging and by delivering such a prospectus, the undersigned will not be deemed to admit that it is an &#8220;underwriter&#8221; within the meaning of the Securities Act. In addition, such broker-dealer represents that it is not acting on behalf of any person who could not truthfully make the foregoing representations.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-top:16px;text-align:left;text-indent:48px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">Please do not hesitate to contact Robyn Zolman of Gibson, Dunn &amp; Crutcher LLP at (303) 298-5740 or the undersigned at (703) 948-3200 with any questions or comments concerning this letter.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-top:16px;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">[Signature page follows]</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-top:16px;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;"><br></font></div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">2</font></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div><a name="s1CC1B2888EDBB37006D7801A347EC8B3"></a></div><div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#160;</font></div></div><div><br></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-top:16px;text-align:left;padding-left:240px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">Kind regards, </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;padding-left:288px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;padding-left:288px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;padding-left:240px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;text-decoration:underline;">/s/ Thomas C. Indelicarto&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;padding-left:264px;text-indent:-24px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">Thomas C. Indelicarto</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;padding-left:264px;text-indent:-24px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">Executive Vice President, General Counsel</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;padding-left:264px;text-indent:-24px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">and Secretary</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;padding-left:264px;text-indent:-24px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">VeriSign, Inc.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;padding-left:288px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">cc:&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Robyn Zolman, Gibson, Dunn &amp; Crutcher LLP</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;text-indent:48px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font></div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">Signature page to Exxon Capital Letter</font></div></div>	</body>
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