(d) Effective July 17, 2019, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of VeriSign, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Dr. Yehuda Ari Buchalter to the Board, increasing the size of the Board from seven to eight directors.

Dr. Buchalter currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Intersection, a leading smart cities media and technology company, a position he has held since May 2017. Dr. Buchalter previously served as the Chief Operating Officer and then President of MediaMath, a leading programmatic advertising technology platform, from July 2008 to January 2017.

As a non-employee director, Dr. Buchalter will receive an annual cash retainer of $40,000 and an annual equity award grant of $250,000, made solely in the form of restricted stock units. New directors are granted an equity award equal to the pro rata amount of such annual equity award, the amount of which is determined based on the date of such new director’s appointment or election to the Board. Dr. Buchalter’s cash retainer will also be prorated to reflect his service for a portion of the year. In addition, the Company entered into an indemnity agreement with Dr. Buchalter to which the Company is required to indemnify Dr. Buchalter against certain liabilities which may arise by reason of his status or service as a director of the Company and to advance expenses to him arising from the investigation, defense, settlement or appeal of these liabilities. The Company’s standard form of indemnity agreement was previously filed as Exhibit 10.01 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2010 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 28, 2010.

There was no arrangement or understanding between Dr. Buchalter and any other person to which Dr. Buchalter was appointed as a director of the Company. There have been no transactions involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries in which Dr. Buchalter has or will have a direct or indirect material interest that are required to be disclosed under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K

The Board has not yet determined which Board committees, if any, to which Dr. Buchalter will be appointed.

About VERISIGN, INC. (NASDAQ:VRSN)

VeriSign, Inc. is a provider of domain name registry services and Internet security, enabling Internet navigation for domain names and providing protection for Websites and enterprises around the world (Registry Services). The Company operates in Registry Services and Security Services segment. Its product suite also includes Security Services consisting of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection Services, Verisign iDefense Security Intelligence Services (iDefense) and Managed Domain Name System (Managed DNS) Services. The Company’s Registry Services provides the security and resiliency of Internet infrastructure and services, including the .com and .net domains, approximately two of the Internet’s root servers, and operation of the root-zone maintainer functions for the core of the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS). The Company has operations inside, as well as outside the United States. Its operations infrastructure consists of approximately three secure data centers.