Nominum built its name by creating the world’s fastest and most reliable DNS system. And we’ve taken the steps necessary to ensure that all of our systems fully support current and future IP-addressing needs with full support for critical addressing protocols like IPv6. But just saying we’re the best doesn’t do justice to the complex manner we achieve this incredible feat. Our unique software-only and discrete functional architecture is a part of our secret sauce. So, too, is our proprietary database that sits at the core of all of our DNS systems. But the real secret to our underlying performance, policy, intelligence, attack resilience, and overall security advantages is in the proprietary algorithms we use to handle and resolve queries. These algorithms remain the best in the industry, and we enhance them daily. In fact, as our systems become increasingly robust, we add to these algorithms—so the overall system continues to function in top form. Most recently, we added a new algorithm we call Dynamic Priority Assignment (DPA), which discovers the optimal prioritization of policy application on-the-fly and also tracks and reassigns processing resources to each element of our system. Our goal is to keep making these algorithms better and better, so that DNS can continue becoming a smarter and smarter part of the Internet. Read more in our White Paper
Query-Processing Technology
Nominum built its name by creating the world’s fastest and most reliable DNS system. And we’ve taken the steps necessary to ensure that all of our systems fully support current and future IP-addressing needs with full support for critical addressing protocols like IPv6. But just saying we’re the best doesn’t do justice to the complex manner we achieve this incredible feat. Our unique software-only and discrete functional architecture is a part of our secret sauce. So, too, is our proprietary database that sits at the core of all of our DNS systems. But the real secret to our underlying performance, policy, intelligence, attack resilience, and overall security advantages is in the proprietary algorithms we use to handle and resolve queries. These algorithms remain the best in the industry, and we enhance them daily. In fact, as our systems become increasingly robust, we add to these algorithms—so the overall system continues to function in top form. Most recently, we added a new algorithm we call Dynamic Priority Assignment (DPA), which discovers the optimal prioritization of policy application on-the-fly and also tracks and reassigns processing resources to each element of our system. Our goal is to keep making these algorithms better and better, so that DNS can continue becoming a smarter and smarter part of the Internet. Read more in our White Paper