Notable Call Options Activity in VeriSign

Shares of VeriSign

are higher on the session by 0.74%, currently trading at $36.75. The stock has been moving largely higher over the past three months and is currently trading above the 50-day moving average. Options traders are focusing on calls today. The strike seeing the heaviest volume is the January 2013 $40.00 call, which has traded 1,576 times on open interest of 206 contracts. The Sept2012 $40.00 call also traded 1,555 times on 15 contracts. Calls are outpacing puts today by 125 to 1. VeriSign, Inc. is a provider of Internet infrastructure services. It provides domain name registry services and infrastructure assurance services. Its business consists of Naming Services segment, which consists of Registry Services and Network Intelligence and Availability Services.