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News Articles : 2004

November 1, 2004

The IEE: Professional Networks
Nominum is already doing significant business with service providers and corporations, delivering secure platforms capable of protecting against DOS attacks...
October 29, 2004

Techworld: It's 10pm: do you know where your DNS is?
Everything relies on DNS - so give it the resources it needs, says Nominum's Richard Kirk.
October 11, 2004

Federal Computer Weekly: Amit Yoran's departure from DHS may spur re-evaluation of role
With Amit Yoran's sudden departure from the nation's top cybersecurity job, industry officials said they fear another setback in efforts to make government and corporate networks secure from attacks that hurt business and national security.
October 7, 2004

Federal Times: Cybersecurity czar's departure leaves gap at Homeland
"There's a question of what is it about government that frustrates somebody like Amit, who's very interested in getting done what the Department of Homeland Security is trying to do - which is protect the nation's infrastructure," Risley said. "He was clearly a guy who wanted to move faster to get security systems in place than did perhaps some of the other departments and agencies. Our fear is that eventually some attack will come along that shows that Amit was right to be impatient."
September 13, 2004

BBC News: Finding solutions to business problems
After working in management for more than 25 years, Chris Risley became chief executive of software group Nominum.
August 23, 2004

Converge: Avoiding Roadblocks on the Path to Convergence
Get high-performance infrastructure software in your lab right now. You never know when your network will come under attack or when one of your customers will come under attack, causing your network to get caught in the crossfire.
June 28, 2004

Net4Nowt: BT implement new caching name server
Nominum, a pioneering provider of IP address management, DNS and DHCP software, today announced that BT, one of Europe's leading providers of telecommunications services, has successfully implemented Nominum Foundation(TM) Caching Name Server, to consolidate, enhance and secure network performance.
June 28, 2004

Network World Fusion: Akamai attack underscores DNS risks
Paul Mockapetris, who invented DNS and is chairman and chief scientist at IP address infrastructure software vendor Nominum, says companies should put filters at the edge of their networks to try to address distributed denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. He says hackers are targeting DNS servers more often because DNS is key to most Internet services
June 25, 2004

The Inquirer: Old enough to drink
OF COURSE it's a PR stunt to lay on a party and a cake to celebrate the 21st birthday of the domain name system. But it's a good cause: the Net as we know it would probably never have taken off with such speed and impact without it.
June 23, 2004

The Register: Domain names come of age
Dr Paul Mockapetris created the system of .com, .org and .gov which end Internet addresses in 1983 while at the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California.
June 23, 2004

BBC News: Net pioneer predicts web future
The net is only in the Bronze Age of evolution, according to the pioneer who invented the Domain Name System (DNS).
May 10, 2004

Enterprise Networks & Servers: Serving Performance
Because Internet Protocol-enabled devices and services have become a fundamental part of the modern business infrastructure, organizations of all sizes and industries now make use of multiple Domain Name System (DNS) servers to dynamically address a host of IP points throughout the business.
April 12, 2004

Network World Fusion: Do you need commercial DNS software?
Do you support several DNS servers? Is the process of matching domain names with corresponding IP addresses taking up more of your IT department's processing power? If your answers to these two questions are yes, it might be time for you to consider replacing your open source DNS software with a commercial alternative.
April 12, 2004

Network World Fusion: IETF to lead anti-spam crusade
The Internet's premier standards-setting body is making its first attempt to develop messaging technology aimed at reducing the amount of spam flooding corporate e-mail servers.
April 7, 2004

IT Director: Is Open Source Alone Enough?
IT Director: Is Open Source Alone Enough? IT likes to believe that it is a logical industry where all decisions (or at least the majority of them) are based on fact rather than fashion. Alas, this is not always so and being "in vogue" is often a subliminal driver behind certain of the technology waves that regularly sweep through the industry. The surge of "Open Source" solutions has, on occasion, exploited this unconscious desire to conform to the desire to be trendy, and not without other, more logical reasoning. However, not everything in the world of open source, as in the more traditional software sector, is perfect.
April 2, 2004

Computer Business Review: ENUM Still Stalled in US
Public deployment of ENUM, the three-year-old standard for using telephone numbers over the internet, is still a way off in the US, despite the fact that many people think it will be an essential component of widespread voice over IP adoption.
March 12, 2004

Security Park: Nominum combines forces with Netlink in The Netherlands
Nominum has signed a strategic partnership with Netlink, a Dutch Network Service Company, that is fully focused on IP Services Management solutions, including DNS (Domain Name System) and DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) for enterprises, telecommunications carriers and ISPs.
March 1, 2004

Computer Reseller News: The domain game
These days it is frequently only a matter of time before IT markets that are born and mature in the enterprise space spread downwards to find new pickings among SMEs. One such case could soon be domain name management.
March 1, 2004

Network World Fusion: Doubts dog Microsoft spam plan
Network World Fusion: Doubts dog Microsoft spam plan Even with Microsoft lending its clout to an expanding anti-spam movement centered on authenticating e-mail senders, experts caution the approach comes laden with technical challenges and unanswered questions.
February 2, 2004

Security Park: Worm attacks: enterprises need to remain on guard in 2004
Last week, inboxes across the world have been flooded with the mass mailing worm MyDoom, with analysts and security experts touting this worm to be more destructive, costly and widespread than last year's SoBig virus.
January 6, 2004

Network World Fusion: DNS just wants to be free
Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of DNS, says he designed the system to be flexible enough to carry almost any sort of information. But he writes that what he didn't count on was political controversy over the future of directory information.
January 1, 2004

Network Magazine: DNS: Defending Your Domain -- There are many approaches to securing DNS. Here's help in choosing the right alternative for your organization.
DNS security might sound dull-unless you're one of the operators responsible for the root servers that suffered a bruising Denial of Service (DoS) attack in 2002, or an administrator who got called on the carpet in Redmond for the faulty DNS design that contributed to extensive outages at Microsoft's site in 2001, or a network manager who wants to keep traffic coming to his or her Web site without disruption, or-well, you get the idea.
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