NMR vs VRSN Comparison

Nomura Holdings Inc is a financial services group in Japan and operates offices in countries and regions world-wide, including Japan, the U.S., the U.K., Singapore, and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ("Hong Kong") through its subsidiaries. The company's clients include individuals, corporations, financial institutions, governments, and governmental agencies. The company's business consists of Wealth Management*, Investment Management, and Wholesale. The company generates the majority of its revenue from the wholesale segment. The Wholesale Division consists of two businesses, Global Markets, which is mainly engaged in the trading, sales, and structuring of financial products, and Investment Banking, which is engaged in advisory, financing, and solutions businesses.

VeriSign is the registry operator for the .com, .net, .name, and .cc generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, and provides the back-end systems for the .edu TLD. The firm generates revenue via annual fees collected for every renewing and new domain in Verisign's registries. The .com and .net gTLDs are two of the largest domains in the world, and VeriSign has been designated as the authoritative registry operator and wholesaler for them under agreements with the US Department of Commerce and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which are subject to renewal every six years.