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Episode: TIVP008: VeriSign (VRSN): The Internet’s Toll Road w/ Shawn O’Malley
Description: In today’s episode, Shawn O’Malley (@Shawn_OMalley_) breaks down VeriSign, a company that underpins the functioning of the internet. VeriSign acts like a toll road, collecting fees from anyone using website domains ending in .com or .net, in exchange for managing the global domain registry system and making these domains accessible.VeriSign is a fascinating company with the fifth-highest profit margins in the S&P 500, and its shares have been increasingly snapped up by Berkshire Hathaway of late, which has become its largest shareholder. You’ll learn how VeriSign was granted its monopo...