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This excerpt taken from the VRSN 10-Q filed May 8, 2009.

Other Services

Other services revenues are derived from our non-core Pre-pay billing and payment services (“Pre-pay”) business as well as legacy products and services from divested businesses. We are in the process of winding down the operations of our Pre-pay business.

Other services revenues decreased $8.6 million during the three months ended March 31, 2009, as compared to the same period last year, primarily due to a decrease in revenues from our Pre-pay business resulting from management’s decision to wind down the business, the divestiture of our CDN business in 2008 and termination of revenues from a service agreement with our former Jamba joint ventures.

 

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Our expectations and trends for our segments are based on what we are observing and can project about the current macro-economic environment. Our outlook is subject to broader changes in the market and could alter significantly over time.

These excerpts taken from the VRSN 10-K filed Mar 3, 2009.

Other Services

 

The Other Services segment consists of the continuing operations of our non-core Pre-pay billing and payment services (“Pre-pay”) business as well as legacy products and services from divested businesses. We are in the process of winding down the operations of Pre-pay. In Other Services, the legacy products and services from divested businesses primarily include: Jamba, which provided mobile entertainment to consumers; the RDS business, which offered point-of-sale data information for retail, pharmaceutical and consumer goods customers; and the CDN business, which offered broadband content services that enable the delivery of high-quality video and other rich media securely and efficiently at a very large scale.

 

See Note 16, “Segment Information,” of our Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 15 of this Form 10-K for further information relating to our segments and geographic information.

 

Assets Held for Sale and Discontinued Operations

 

During the fourth quarter of 2007, we announced a change to our business strategy to allow management to focus its attention on our core competencies and to make additional resources available to invest in our core businesses. The strategy calls for the divesture or winding down of a number of non-core businesses in the Company’s portfolio, such as Communications Services, Enterprise Security Services (“ESS”), and Messaging and Mobile Media Services, as well as other smaller businesses. These businesses, except for Pre-pay, which we are currently in the process of winding down, are classified as disposal groups held for sale as of December 31, 2008, and their results of operations have been classified as discontinued operations for all periods presented.

 

Other Services

 

Other Services segment revenues decreased $38.9 million in 2008, as compared to 2007, primarily due to the divestiture of our majority ownership interest in Jamba in the first quarter of 2007, decrease in revenues from our Pre-pay business and the divestiture of other legacy businesses.

 

Other Services segment revenues decreased $279.9 million in 2007, as compared to 2006, primarily due to the divestiture of our majority ownership interest in Jamba in the first quarter of 2007 and a decrease in revenues from our Pre-pay business.

 

 

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We expect revenues for our Other Services segment to decrease in absolute dollars as we wind down our remaining non-core Pre-pay business in 2009.

 

This excerpt taken from the VRSN 10-Q filed Nov 7, 2008.

Other Services

Other Services segment revenues decreased $6.5 million and $30.2 million during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2008, respectively, as compared to the same periods last year. The decrease during the three months ended September 30, 2008, as compared to the same period last year, was primarily due to a decrease in revenues from our legacy products. The decrease during the nine months ended September 30, 2008, as compared to the same period last year, was primarily due to the divestiture of our majority ownership interest in our Jamba subsidiary in the first quarter of 2007.

We expect revenues for our Other Services segment to decrease in absolute dollars as we divest or wind down certain non-core businesses in 2008. Upon classification as discontinued operations, the revenues of the non-core businesses will be reclassified from Other Services to discontinued operations.

Within the Other Services segment, our divestiture plan has led some of our customers to delay entering into arrangements with us until they are able to obtain greater clarity concerning the composition and direction the divested businesses will take following the completion of the divestiture plan. We anticipate having greater clarity as to the trends impacting these businesses as the divestiture plan progresses.

 

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This excerpt taken from the VRSN 10-Q filed Aug 8, 2008.

Other Services

Other Services segment revenues increased $4.5 million and decreased $10.9 million during the three and six months ended June 30, 2008, respectively, as compared to the same periods last year. The decrease during the six months ended June 30, 2008, as compared to the same period last year, was primarily due to a decrease of $28.9 million from our legacy businesses which includes the divested majority ownership interest in our Jamba subsidiary, our CDN business and other smaller historical businesses. Our mobile content and messaging services revenues increased $5.1 million and $13.1 million during the three and six months ended June 30, 2008, respectively, as compared to the same periods last year primarily due to an increase in volume in our inter-carrier Multi-Media Messaging Services (“MMS”) and Short Send Messaging Services (“SMS”). Our payment services revenues increased $2.5 million and $4.9 million during the three and six months ended June 30, 2008, respectively, as compared to the same periods last year, primarily due to an increase in revenues from our advanced billing and customer care services to wireless carriers.

We expect revenues for our Other Services segment to decrease in absolute dollars as we divest or wind down certain non-core businesses in 2008. Upon classification as discontinued operations, the revenues of the non-core business will be reclassified from Other Services to discontinued operations.

Within the Other Services segment, our divestiture plan has led some of our customers to delay entering into arrangements with us until they are able to obtain greater clarity concerning the composition and direction the divested businesses will take following the completion of the divestiture plan. We anticipate having greater clarity as to the trends impacting these businesses as the divestiture plan progresses.

 

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This excerpt taken from the VRSN 10-Q filed May 12, 2008.

Other Services

Other Services segment revenues decreased $16.4 million during the three months ended March 31, 2008, as compared to the same period last year. The decrease was primarily due to the divestiture of our majority ownership interest in our Jamba subsidiary on January 31, 2007. During the three months ended March 31, 2007, we recognized approximately $23.8 million in revenues from our Jamba subsidiary business prior to the divestiture of our majority ownership interest in it. Our mobile content and messaging services revenues increased $8.0 million during the three months ended March 31, 2008, as compared to the same period last year.

 

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