Verisign chooses Internap for high performance connectivity

📅 April 12, 2001 - Internap Network Services (internap.com -> inap.com), a leading intelligent routing services company, announced on Thursday that VeriSign Inc. (verisign.com) had chosen Internap as a provider of high-performance Internet connectivity.

A leading provider of infrastructure services to Web sites, enterprises, e-commerce service providers and individuals, VeriSign's domain name, digital certificate and payment services provide the secure identity authentication that businesses need to conduct secure e-commerce and communications. And VeriSign is also the leading provider of Internet domain name system services. The company's Global Registry Services division maintains the directory for .com, .net and .org domains.
VeriSign says its Global Registry Services chose Internap to provide connectivity because of the company's ability to connect users directly through the shortest, least congested paths on all the major Internet backbones, using its overlay network's intelligent routing platform.
Internap says it is glad to be serving the world's largest Web registry, and that the company feels its overlay network provides the ideal platform for businesses like VeriSign that need fast and reliable access to major Internet backbones, and optimal routing of their traffic.