Verisign Shares Down 5% in Pre-Market

Verisign shares are currently down over 5% in pre-market activity, according to the company’s latest report.Shares are now trading at just over $52 a share.

Moreover, the company issued a statement on the NTIA’s (National Telecommunications and Information Administration) announcement of its intent to transition key Internet domain functions.

You can read the announcement after the jump:

“The announcement by NTIA on Friday, March 14, 2014, does not affect Verisign’s operation of the .com and .net registries. The announcement does not impact Verisign’s .com or .net domain name business nor impact its .com or .net revenue or those agreements, which have presumptive rights of renewal.

The NTIA announcement involves Internet functions that are entirely different functions from those Verisign performs under its .com and .net agreements. The functions performed by Verisign involved in the NTIA announcement have been performed as a community service spanning three decades without compensation at the request of the Department of Commerce under the Cooperative Agreement”