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Commitments And Contingencies | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2020
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract] |
Commitments And Contingencies | Commitments and Contingencies Purchase Obligations and Contractual Agreements The following table represents the minimum payments required by Verisign under certain purchase obligations, certain U.S. income tax obligations, leases, and the interest payments and principal on the Senior Notes:
| Purchase Obligations |  | Transition Tax |  | Operating Leases |  | Senior Notes |  | Total
| (In thousands)
2021 | $ | 48,691 |  |  | $ | 7,772 |  |  | $ | 6,217 |  |  | $ | 87,063 |  |  | $ | 149,743 |
2022 | 10,462 |  |  | 7,772 |  |  | 3,401 |  |  | 87,063 |  |  | 108,698 |
2023 | 5,450 |  |  | 14,573 |  |  | 1,190 |  |  | 819,719 |  |  | 840,932 |
2024 | 4,095 |  |  | 19,430 |  |  | 353 |  |  | 52,375 |  |  | 76,253 |
2025 | 4,039 |  |  | 24,288 |  |  | 116 |  |  | 539,250 |  |  | 567,693 |
Thereafter | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | 602,250 |  |  | 602,250 |
Total | $ | 72,737 |  |  | $ | 73,835 |  |  | $ | 11,277 |  |  | $ | 2,187,720 |  |  | $ | 2,345,569 |
The amounts in the table above exclude $23.1 million of unrecognized tax benefits, as the Company is unable to reasonably estimate the ultimate amount or time of settlement of those liabilities. Verisign enters into certain purchase obligations with various vendors. The Company’s significant purchase obligations include firm commitments with telecommunication carriers, other service providers and the fixed portion of registry fees related to the operation of certain top-level domains. Registry fees for top-level domains that we operate where the amounts are variable or passed-through to registrars have been excluded from the table above. The Company does not have any significant purchase obligations beyond 2025. The Company has an agreement with Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) to be the sole registry operator for domain names in the .com registry through November 30, 2024. Under this agreement, the Company pays ICANN on a quarterly basis, $0.25 for each annual term of a domain name registered or renewed during such quarter. The Company incurred registry fees for the .com registry of $36.3 million in 2020, $34.7 million in 2019, and $33.0 million in 2018. In connection with the .com Registry Agreement with ICANN, the Company is required to make annual payments of $4.0 million to ICANN from 2021 through 2025 to support efforts to maintain the security and stability of the DNS. These payments are included in Purchase obligations in the table above. The Transition Tax relates to the U.S. income taxes payable on our accumulated foreign earnings pursuant to the Tax Act as discussed in Note 10 “Income Taxes.” As permitted by the Tax Act, the Company will continue to pay the Transition Tax in installments as shown in the table above. Verisign leases a small portion of its office space and a portion of its data center facilities under operating leases, the longest of which extends into 2025. Rental expenses under operating leases were not material in any period presented. Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements As of December 31, 2020 and 2019, the Company did not have any relationships with unconsolidated entities or financial partnerships, such as entities often referred to as structured finance or special purpose entities, which would have been established for the purpose of facilitating off-balance sheet arrangements or other contractually narrow or limited purposes. As such, the Company is not exposed to any financing, liquidity, market or credit risk that could arise if the Company had engaged in such relationships. It is not the Company’s business practice to enter into off-balance sheet arrangements. However, in the normal course of business, the Company does enter into contracts in which it makes representations and warranties that guarantee the performance of the Company’s products and services. Historically, there have been no significant losses related to such guarantees.

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