VeriSign (VRSN)

SPOUSE’S CONSENT

I acknowledge that I have read the foregoing Directors Stock Option Exercise Agreement (the “Agreement”) and that I know its contents. I hereby consent to and approve all the provisions of the Agreement and agree that the shares of the Common Stock of VeriSign, Inc. purchased thereunder (the “Shares”) and any interest I may have in such Shares are subject to all the provisions of the Agreement. I will take no action at any time to hinder operation of the Agreement on these Shares or any interest I may have on them.

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The Board of Directors unanimously recommends that you vote FOR the Board of Director nominees and FOR Proposals 2 and 3.

Please Mark Here for Address Change or Comments

SEE REVERSE SIDE

1. Election of Directors

FOR all nominees WITHHOLD listed below AUTHORITY (except as marked to vote for all nominees to the contrary) listed below

2. Proposal to amend the 1998 Directors Stock Option Plan to increase the size of initial option grants and annual option grants to non-employee directors to 50,000 shares and 25,000 shares, respectively.

3. Proposal to ratify the selection of KPMG LLP as independent auditors for the year ending December 31, 2005.

FOR AGAINST ABSTAIN

FOR AGAINST ABSTAIN

In accordance with their judgment, the proxies are authorized to vote upon such other matters as may properly come before the Annual Meeting or any continuations or adjournments thereof.

Nominees:

01 Scott G. Kriens 02 Len J. Lauer 03 Stratton D. Sclavos

To withhold authority to vote for any individual nominee, strike a line through that nominee’s name.

This Proxy must be signed exactly as your name appears

hereon. If more than one name appears, all persons

so designated should sign. Attorneys, executors,

administrators, trustees and guardians should indicate

their capacities. If the signer is a corporation, please print

full corporate name and indicate capacity of duly

authorized officer executing on behalf of the corporation.

If the signer is a partnership, please print full partnership

name and indicate capacity of duly authorized person

executing on behalf of the partnership.

WHETHER OR NOT YOU EXPECT TO ATTEND THE

MEETING, PLEASE COMPLETE, DATE AND SIGN THIS

PROXY CARD AND RETURN IT PRIOR TO THE

MEETING IN THE ENCLOSED ENVELOPE.

Signature Signature Date , 2005

FOLD AND DETACH HERE

Vote by Internet or Telephone or Mail

24 Hours a Day, 7 Days a Week

Internet and telephone voting is available through 11:59 PM Eastern Time the day prior to annual meeting day.

Your Internet or telephone vote authorizes the named proxies to vote your shares in the same manner as if you marked, signed and returned your proxy card.

Internet http://www.proxyvoting.com/vrsn

Use the internet to vote your proxy. Have your proxy card in hand when you access the web site.

OR

Telephone 1-866-540-5760

Use any touch-tone telephone to vote your proxy. Have your proxy card in hand when you call.

OR

Mail

Mark, sign and date your proxy card and return it in the enclosed postage-paid envelope.

If you vote your proxy by Internet or by telephone, you do NOT need to mail back your proxy card.

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VeriSign, Inc.

487 East Middlefield Road, Mountain View, California 94043-4047

THIS PROXY IS SOLICITED ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The undersigned hereby appoints Stratton D. Sclavos and Dana L. Evan, as proxies, each with full powers of substitution, and hereby authorizes them to represent and to vote, as designated on the reverse side, all shares of Common Stock, $0.001 par value, of VeriSign, Inc. (the “Company”) held of record by the undersigned on March 28, 2005, at the 2005 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of the Company (the “Meeting”) to be held on May 26, 2005, and at any continuations or adjournments thereof.

This Proxy, when properly executed and returned in a timely manner, will be voted at the Meeting and any continuations or adjournments thereof in the manner described herein. If no contrary indication is made, the proxy will be voted FOR the Board of Director nominees and FOR Proposals 2 and 3 and in accordance with the judgment of the persons named as proxies herein on any other matters that may properly come before the Meeting.

PLEASE MARK, SIGN, DATE AND RETURN THIS PROXY CARD PROMPTLY USING THE ENCLOSED ENVELOPE.

CONTINUED AND TO BE SIGNED AND DATED ON REVERSE SIDE SEE REVERSE SIDE

Address Change/Comments (Mark the corresponding box on the reverse side)

FOLD AND DETACH HERE

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