December 14, 2005
SIP can revolutionise telephony networks but must overcome interoperability issues
"It is getting to the time when we have a critical mass of these systems and what we expect is that the people buying them are going to start insisting to the suppliers that they want interoperability," said Paul Mockapetris, chief scientist at Nominum.
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November 30, 2005
Deutsche Telekom's VC arm takes stake in Nominum
T-Com Venture Fund, the VC arm of the Deutsche Telekom group, has taken an equity stake in Nominum Inc, a developer of DNS and DHCP server software for carriers, service providers and global enterprises.
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November 29, 2005
The next version of IP is making slow progress
However, Nat has its problems, said Paul Mockapetris, chief scientist of domain name system server software supplier Nominum. By blocking individual IP addresses from the network, Nat makes it difficult for direct peer-to-peer networking, which affects various applications, including some forms of VoIP.
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November 14, 2005
Nominum Launches DCS 2.0 Server
Nominum Inc., provider of IP address management solutions, has introduced the Nominum Dynamic Configuration Server (DCS) 2.0, based on Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and designed for the deployment of VoIP, triple play and IMS services.
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October 5, 2005
Nominum Takes Telefonica
Spain’s Telefónica SA is the latest carrier to announce it is switching from open source software to a Domain Name System (DNS) caching server from Nominum Inc.
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October 4, 2005
Telefonica nominates Nominum for DNS
Telefonica felt the pain in February 2004 when a virus pushed its BIND servers over the edge. Rather than doubling the number of DNS servers, the carrier began looking for a scalable software solution and chose Nominum.
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October 4, 2005
Nominum Wins Telefonica Deal
Telefonica has tapped Nominum to provide caching name servers for the DNS part of its network.
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September 14, 2005
Shouldering The Load Nominum, Juniper team up on next-generation networks
By combining Juniper's E-series edge-router platform with the Nominum Foundation Dynamic Configuration Server (DCS), the companies will give carriers increased network availability and performance, and will enable service providers to support many subscribers with differentiated services.
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August 3, 2005
DNS servers--an Internet Achilles' heel
The poisoned caches act like "forged street signs that you put up to get people to go in the wrong direction," said DNS inventor Paul Mockapetris, chairman and chief scientist at secure DNS provider Nominum. "There have been other vulnerabilities (in DNS) over the years, but this is the one that is out there now and one for which there is no fix. You should upgrade."
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July 28, 2005
Vendors Add New Blades, Solutions to BladeCenter
Nominum Inc., an IP address infrastructure vendor, has announced a new blade that will combine its DNS (Domain Name Systems) and DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) solutions with BladeCenter.
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July 27, 2005
Big Blue's 'big-iron' blitz
The IBM/Intel BladeCenter ecosystem, which consists of more than 260 companies with the specification and 350 technology and solution partners in the BladeCenter Alliance Program, has expanded with a number of new blades and solutions from the likes of CipherOptics, Cisco, Nominum, QLogic and SANRAD.
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July 18, 2005
How to prevent pharming
Upgrading to BIND 9.2.5 or implementing DNSSec would make the cache poisoning risk disappear, says Paul Mockapetris, chief scientist at Nominum and an original author of the DNS protocol.
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June 22, 2005
The looming threat of pharming
The vulnerable spot is DNS software -- typically the widely used BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) -- and the hack is called pharming.
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June 6, 2005
Pharming and other security woes hector VoIP
Without their knowledge, VoIP users' calls could then be redirected to IP addresses completely different from the ones the users dialed, warns Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of the domain name system.
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June 3, 2005
ETSI Tests ENUM
The ETSI Plugtests™ interoperability event for Telephone Number Mapping (ENUM) has successfully provided a neutral setting for engineers to carry out testing against the ENUM standard.
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June 1, 2005
Domain system creator honoured
Paul Mockapetris, chief scientist at Nominum, has been given an ACM Sigcomm lifetime award.
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May 12, 2005
Asia Leads U.S. in Net Upgrade
In a roundtable discussion sponsored by Nominum Wednesday night, industry experts said U.S. telcos have delayed implementation of version 6 of IP and will face dire consequences as companies struggle to invest in next-generation infrastructure over the next five to 10 years.
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May 11, 2005
The Dangers of a Stressed-Out, Overworked DNS
The Dangers of a Stressed-Out, Overworked DNS
Paul Mockapetris, the granddaddy of DNS technology -- he helped write the BIND software back in 1983 -- says he's not surprised, because DNS was designed for a less complicated world.
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May 5, 2005
Protect your voice network
As voice over IP (VoIP) proliferates in large, high-profile businesses, hackers will find ways to exploit the weaknesses they already know to disrupt voice service.
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May 2, 2005
DNS Attacks Expose Key Flaws
"What we need to do is move to a secure DNS architecture, but that will take a while," Mockapetris said.
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May 1, 2005
Dial "ENUM" for murder?
ENUM is not a radically new idea. However, its circumstances have recently undergone a sea change. “The big thing that’s different today is that the people with the chequebooks are talking about it,” says Albert Gouyet, of Nominum, a provider of IP name and address management software.
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March 30, 2005
ENUM Heads for Primetime
Nominum, which released ENUM benchmark results earlier this month, has seen demand for its software jump as carriers that have been conducting trials get ready to roll out ENUM early next year.
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March 25, 2005
Sun News: Next Generation DNS helps Telcos Stay Agile
By implementing caching name servers with truly carrier-class performance capabilities, telecom providers can build more robust DNS infrastructure while reducing their overall costs.
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March 22, 2005
TELEPHONY Online: Nominum gets more than nominal investment from ATV
IP address management company Nominum followed up a record-setting ENUM benchmark announcement earlier this month at the VON Conference with a $16 million funding round this week led by Advanced Technology Ventures.
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March 14, 2005
Wired News: Pharming Out-Scams Phishing
Risley said Mockapetris firmly believes it's time to refresh DNS, and that Mockapetris never expected DNS and BIND to be used on today's huge public systems.
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March 14, 2005
Washington Post: Phear of Pharming
Chris Risley, who runs a company called Nominum characterized the practical effects of harming: "Phishing is to pharming what a guy with a rod and a reel is to a Russian trawler."
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March 11, 2005
San Jose Business Journal: Security issues lurking beyond VoIP's cost saving promise
"At the end of the day, it's all about money," said Albert Gouyet, vice president of marketing for Nominum Inc.
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January 21, 2005
Computer Weekly.com: Put safeguards in place now to avoid problems with future converged networks
Any weaknesses in an IP data network today will become more of a threat, says Chris Risley.
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January 10, 2005
eWeek: Spammer's New Tactic Upends DNS
"We have to figure out how to taper DNS services gracefully rather than having catastrophic failures," said Paul Mockapetris.
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