An Intelligent DNS system wouldn’t be very intelligent if it had no visibility or memory from which to make determinations about the best answer to provide. At Nominum, we understood that blind policy enforcement was dangerous and had the potential to disrupt the Internet. So we built in traffic monitoring, detailed analytics, and alerting functions to provide real-time network visibility and event awareness of network metrics, trends and anomalies. These capabilities also come enabled with dynamic online diagnostics that tie directly into our support and operations centers, for zero-time rapid-response for any issues that occur on the DNS network. More than simply a reporting function, Nominum’s unique and proprietary query-processing algorithms leverage the monitoring and diagnostics gathered by the intelligence layer to ensure optimal query processing, offer dynamic resolution paths, automatically reconfigure settings in the policy layer and guard against attacks. The intelligence layer also has the capacity to take detailed, real-time and complex inputs from our hosted network and consumer applications, offering network owners and end users services that dynamically and continuously improve. Read more in our whitepaper