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Nominum SKYEâ„ Enterprise Solution is a new delivery model for DNS services that combines industry leading DNS software and SKYE hosted services. This powerful combination provides better performance, reliability, and security for the online presence of domain owners, allowing organizations of all sizes to easily improve, expand, and extend the reach of their domains while minimizing capital expenditures and reducing impact on the network and operations staff. SKYE Enterprise offers automated and fully-integrated DNSSEC support.
NavAssist is a new application that simplifies and secures web browsing for people using any web-enabled device. Offered to consumers through agreements with Internet service providers, NavAssist advances the technology originally developed for Nominum’s SKYE SEARCH, that takes entries typed into any browser address bar – on a smart phone, laptop or other device – and returns navigational guidance that gets people to their intended web destinations better informed with more choices.
Redwood City, CA Nominum announced today enhancements to its Vantio™ Intelligent DNS System that provides a faster, safer, and more useful Internet experience for more than 500 million fixed and mobile broadband users around the world. Building on the significant advantages of the Vantio Intelligent DNS System, Nominum is announcing several important new capabilities in [...]
Sydney, Australia – DECEMBER 21, 2009 — Nominum, the leader in intelligent DNS systems, announced today a powerful and easily deployable solution for Australian service providers to support new measures announced by the Australian government to improve safety on the Internet. Leveraging Nominum’s Vantio™ Base Server, Malicious Domain Redirection (MDR) Service Delivery Module, and Centris™ [...]
Complete integration and automation of DNSSEC functions enables scaling without appliances and eliminates operational overhead and errors that may cause Internet sites to disappear.
New SKYE™ business unit offers DNS and advanced applications for a better Internet
Nominum now has more than 100 million broadband households around the world that benefit from it’s Intelligent DNS systems. Continued rapid expansion at leading service providers globally will bring the benefits to more than 170 million by year end, which represents nearly half of the entire broadband Internet.
Nominum allows service providers to provide instant and automatic protection to Internet users against a wide range of web based threats as soon as they are discovered. These threats include botnets, phishing, illegal content, and many other forms of malware. By leveraging Intelligent DNS systems, Nominum‚s TRUE Architecture ensures Internet users have a safe, secure and productive experience and represents a new era for the DNS and its critical role in the Internet.
Nominum has a very simple, efficient, and effective solution that allows service providers to quickly comply with regulatory mandates or agreements being negotiated that require them to block access to child exploitation sites on the Internet. Nominum‚s solution offers service providers several key advantages:
No invasion of user privacy; packet contents are not examined
Simple deployment with no new equipment in the network or operational overhead
Preserves the subscriber experience; performance, latency and availability are not impacted
Confidentiality of lists of banned sites to prevent inadvertent disclosure or theft
Nominum changes the DHCP landscape with significant enhancements to the Dynamic Configuration System (DCS), its commercial-grade Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server featuring the industry‚s best performance, scalability, and availability for IP network connections. New DCS features support DHCPv6 and extensive new management capabilities that allow network operations staff to make the best use of precious IP addresses.