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This excerpt taken from the VRSN DEF 14A filed Apr 14, 2009.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES

The following table presents fees for professional services rendered by KPMG LLP for the audit of our annual consolidated financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2008 and December 31, 2007, and fees billed for other services provided by KPMG LLP.


	2008 Fees	2007 Fees
Audit Fees (including quarterly reviews):
Consolidated Integrated Audit	4,983,828	4,816,524
Statutory Audits	761,009	588,919
Consent on SEC filing	—	15,000

Total Audit Fees	5,744,837	5,420,443
Audit-Related Fees(1)	4,091,419	1,835,215
Tax Fees(2)	114,647	41,749

Total Fees	9,950,903	7,297,407

(1)

Audit-Related Fees consist principally of attestation of internal controls for service organizations under Statement on Accounting Standards No. 70, Webtrust audits, and audit of carve-out entities sold or to be sold.

(2)

Tax Fees include international tax compliance and technical tax advice.

This excerpt taken from the VRSN DEF 14A filed Apr 15, 2008.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES

The following table presents fees for professional services rendered by KPMG LLP for the audit of our annual consolidated financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2007 and December 31, 2006, and fees billed for other services provided by KPMG LLP.


	2007 Fees		2006 Fees
Audit Fees (including quarterly reviews):
Consolidated Audit(1)
Integrated Audit	$	4,816,524	$	3,835,709
Special Investigation		—		2,668,437

Statutory Audits		588,919		545,690
Consent on SEC filing		22,500		7,500

Total Audit Fees		5,427,943		7,057,336
Audit-Related Fees(2)		1,827,715		1,298,855
Tax Fees(3)		41,749		228,717
All Other Fees		—		—

Total Fees	$	7,297,417	$	8,584,908

(1)

Consolidated audit fees for 2007 represent estimated billings as final billings are yet to be determined.

(2)

Audit-Related Fees consist principally of attestation of internal controls for service organizations under Statement on Accounting Standards No. 70 and Webtrust audits and Carve-out audit.

(3)

Tax Fees include international tax compliance and tax advice.

This excerpt taken from the VRSN DEF 14A filed Jul 27, 2007.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES

The following table presents fees for professional services rendered by KPMG LLP for the audit of our annual consolidated financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2006 and December 31, 2005, and fees billed for other services provided by KPMG LLP.


	2006 Fees		2005 Fees(1)
Audit Fees (including quarterly reviews):
Integrated Audit	$	3,835,709	$	3,336,411
Stock Option Investigation		2,668,437		—

Consolidated Audit(2)		6,504,146		3,336,411
Statutory Audits		545,690		399,870
Consent on SEC filing		7,500		22,500

Total Audit Fees		7,057,336		3,758,781
Audit-Related Fees(3)		1,298,855		1,153,244
Tax Fees(4)		228,717		128,743
All Other Fees		—		—

Total Fees	$	8,584,908	$	5,040,768

(1)

The Audit Fees reported for fiscal 2005 have been updated from the amounts reported in our proxy statement for our 2006 Annual Meeting of Stockholders which contained an estimate of Total Fees of $4,961,589 as final fees were not available at the time of filing.

(2)

Consolidated audit fees for 2006 represent estimated billings as final billings are yet to be determined.

(3)

Audit-Related Fees consist principally of attestation of internal controls for service organizations under Statement on Accounting Standards No. 70 and Webtrust audits.

(4)

Tax Fees include foreign tax compliance and related tax matters.

This excerpt taken from the VRSN DEF 14A filed Apr 10, 2006.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES

The following table presents fees for professional services rendered by KPMG LLP for the audit of our annual consolidated financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2005 and December 31, 2004, and fees billed for other services provided by KPMG LLP.


	2005 Fees		2004 Fees(1)
Audit Fees (including quarterly reviews):
Consolidated audit(2)	$	3,257,232	$	2,932,500
Statutory Audits		399,870		252,206
Consent on SEC filing		22,500		20,000
Total Audit Fees		3,679,602		3,204,706

Audit-Related Fees(3)		1,153,244		781,294
Tax Fees(4)		128,743		381,590
All Other Fees(5)		—		30,500

Total Fees	$	4,961,589	$	4,398,090

(1)

The Audit Fees, Audit-Related Fees and Tax Fees reported for fiscal 2004 have been updated from the amounts reported in our proxy statement for our 2005 Annual Meeting of Stockholders which contained an estimate of Total Fees of $3,837,485 as final fees were not available at time of filing.

(2)

Consolidated audit fees for 2005 represent estimated billings as final billings are yet to be determined.

(3)

Audit-Related Fees consist principally of attestation of internal controls for service organizations under Statement on Accounting Standards No. 70 (SAS 70).

(4)

Tax Fees include federal, state and international tax compliance, tax advice and tax planning.

(5)

All Other Fees include reimbursement of professional and administrative costs incurred by KPMG LLP for compliance with a subpoena request related to certain class action complaints filed against VeriSign and other administrative services.

This excerpt taken from the VRSN DEF 14A filed Apr 26, 2005.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES

The following table presents fees for professional services rendered by KPMG LLP for the audit of our annual consolidated financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2004 and December 31, 2003, and fees billed for other services provided by KPMG LLP.


	2004 Fees		2003 Fees
Audit Fees (including quarterly reviews):
Consolidated audit	$	2,581,000	$	1,419,000
Statutory Audits		252,206		156,000
Consent on SEC filing		20,000		10,000
Total Audit Fees		2,853,206		1,585,000

Audit-Related Fees(1)		599,419		725,000
Tax Fees(2)		354,360		854,000
All Other Fees(3)		30,500		177,000

Total Fees	$	3,837,485	$	3,341,000

(1)

Audit-Related Fees consist principally of attestation of internal controls for service organizations under Statement on Accounting Standards No. 70 (SAS 70).

(2)

Tax Fees include federal, state and international tax compliance, tax advice and tax planning.

(3)

EXCERPTS ON THIS PAGE:

DEF 14A	Apr 14, 2009

DEF 14A	Apr 15, 2008

DEF 14A	Jul 27, 2007

DEF 14A	Apr 10, 2006

DEF 14A	Apr 26, 2005

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