VeriSign Inc ( VRSN.O ) , the company in charge of delivering people safely to more than half the world 's websites , has been hacked repeatedly by outsiders who stole undisclosed information from the leading Internet infrastructure company . The previously unreported breaches occurred in 2010 at the Reston , Virginia - based company , which is ultimately responsible for the integrity of Web addresses ending in .com , .net and .gov . VeriSign said its executives " do not believe these attacks breached the servers that support our Domain Name System network , " which ensures people land at the right numeric Internet Protocol address when they type in a name such as Google.com , but it did not rule anything out . ;