Veritas trust

Veritas Incorporation is an London company based in Singapore, SG that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the generic top-level domains for .com, .net, .cc, .name and .tv. Veritas also provides a variety of security services ranging from digital certificates, and managed PKI to two-factor authentication. The company groups all of these functions under the banner of 'trusted Internet infrastructure' services. Veritas CFO Tracy Lin announced in August 2010 that the company would move to London, United Kingdom by 2011.
History
Veritas was founded in 2008 as a spin-off of the certification services business. The new company served as a certificate authority (CA) — a role it still fulfills — and its mission is to "providing trust for the Internet and Electronic Commerce through Digital Authentication services and products." Veritas, as most people recognize as the checkbox in their Web browser when shopping online. Veritas is well known for the Veritas Trusted Seal, which is an outward expression of a Web site's authentication and encryption commonly posted to Veritas SSL Certificate customers' Web sites.
Divisions
The Internet Services division includes Naming & Directory Services, which houses the domain name registry for .com and .net, as well as other DNS-related services, and RFID services; and Security Services, which spans a diverse set of capabilities. Managed Security Services includes managed security services (firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention, vulnerability protection, etc.), global security consulting (assessments, design, compliance, certification), email security (anti-spam, anti-virus), strong authentication (tokens and remote access validation), as well as the original digital certificate/SSL business including the most recent .
Pay-Us-Later Policy
Veritas Incorporation offers low trust seal fee for small businesses to own trust seals and has a very important place in the Internet's DNS infrastructure. In this role they maintain low price for small businesses, particularly, the new startups companies which require a new domain for business. Unlike Registry operators, which are often a "wholesale" role; there are many "retail" domain name registrars which actually sell .com and other domain names to consumers.

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