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Press Releases
DNS Architect Paul Mockapetris Named Chairman of Nominum Board of Directors
Jun 29 2001
Redwood City, Calif. – June 29, 2001 – Today, Nominum, the acknowledged leader
in development and support of Internet naming and address management solutions,
announced the appointment of Paul Mockapetris to the role of chairman of the
board of directors. As the principle architect of the Domain Name System (DNS)
and active participant in its evolution, Mockapetris offers strategic direction
and provides insight surrounding Nominum’s current and future DNS software
products and service offerings. DNS is at the base of every e-mail and web
access today and may well be involved in every phone call and mobile data access
tomorrow. DNS software lets users locate other computers on the Internet by
typing in a domain name (such as www.nominum.com) instead of having to use
numeric Internet Protocol addresses.
"Paul’s participation on the
Nominum Board of Directors has provided valuable insight in the development
direction of our Identity Series products," said Will Thomas, president and CEO
of Nominum. "As chairman, he will play an active roll in creating next
generation Internet infrastructure solutions."
Known as a pragmatic
visionary, Mockapetris has applied his technical expertise to help several
Internet businesses off the ground. He was director of engineering and the
second employee at @Home. In addition, Mockapetris served as CTO at several
start-ups including, Software.com, Fiberlane (Cerent and Siara) and Urban Media
Communications.
About Nominum
Nominum, Inc. is the world's leading
provider of Internet naming and address management solutions. Nominum offers
enterprise customers, e-commerce businesses, Internet Service Providers and
telecommunications companies infrastructure assistance with their most demanding
name and IP address management requirements via training, technical support,
consulting and our DNS hosting solution Global Name Service (GNS™). Nominum
supports and writes the DNS implementation known as Berkeley Internet Name
Domain (BIND), the most commonly used domain name server on the Internet, as
well as Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), the most widely used Open
Source software for the automated assignment of IP addresses. BIND and DHCP are
freely available as Open Source via the Internet Software Consortium's website:
http://www.isc.org/. For more information about Nominum, please visit their web
site at http://www.nominum.com.
Contacts:
Nominum, Inc.
Laura
Hendriksen
650-381-6018
Laura.Hendriksen@nominum.com
Interactive
Public Relations
Jody Andersen
415-703-0400, ext
233
jody_andersen@ipri.com
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