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Press Releases
Nominum Launches Secondary.com
Jan 31 2001
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--Jan. 31, 2001--Nominum, Inc. announced plans to unveil a largely free secondary DNS hosting service Secondary.com, (www.secondary.com) at LinuxWorld, January 31st through February 2nd at the Javits Convention Center in New York City in Booth 2357.
Secondary.com is based upon Nominum's Global Name Service (GNS(tm)) infrastructure. "As the developers of the BIND DNS server, BIND 9, we feel uniquely qualified to offer such a service," said Will Thomas, President and CEO of Nominum. "Our GNS platform is built not only on our expertise, but on a redundant network infrastructure of servers situated around the world." This service is offered free of charge to customers with five or fewer domains and less than 100 records overall. Secondary hosting services are also available to customers with larger domains on a fee basis.
Nominum offers Secondary.com as part of its mission to improve the infrastructure of the Internet. Some organizations run their own primary DNS servers while others depend on their Internet Service Provider to do so. Good network architecture design says that organizations should also have at least one secondary DNS server on an independent network connection to provide a reliable backup to their primary server. Although running a secondary DNS server on an independent network is strongly encouraged, it has proven difficult for many organizations to make reliable arrangements. Nominum addresses the problems commonly found with secondary service through an easy-to-use web interface that gives customers complete control over their service and an infrastructure specifically designed to provide fast, reliable response to DNS queries. Secondary.com allows customers to take a pro-active role ensuring the availability of their DNS.
About Nominum
Nominum, Inc. is the world's leading provider of Internet naming and address management solutions that provide the Domain Name Service (DNS) necessary for virtually all internetworking software. Nominum supports and writes the 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/. 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 outsourcing solutions. For more information about Nominum, please visit their web site at www.nominum.com/.
Contacts:
Nominum
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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