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Press Releases
Nominum Offers DNS Hosting Service
Feb 28 2001
Redwood City, California — February 28, 2001 — Nominum, Inc., experts in the development and support of Internet naming and address management solutions, today announced the availability of their Global Name Service™ (GNS™), a complete outsource solution for Domain Name Service (DNS) operations. Few organizations have Domain Name Service (DNS) as a core competency despite the dependency on DNS for an organization's Internet connectivity and fundamental business applications such as email. GNS™ is the authoritative answer to DNS management. From secondary service to a fully outsourced primary solution, every GNS level of service includes a guarantee of uptime, ensuring visibility in today’s online business world. President and CEO, Will Thomas explains: “Nominum's Global Name Service™ provides a high degree of reliability and performance to organizations of all sizes, who recognize the mission-critical role DNS plays in their business. Our GNS solution goes well beyond the minimal 'best practice' of placing secondary servers on a different network and is much more cost effective.”
Based on a multi-site, multi-server, multi-networked infrastructure, GNS™ is designed to deliver the most reliable, fault-tolerant, user-friendly DNS possible. Core GNS™ sites are located at Internet exchange points and thus optimally positioned for network speed and reliability. Each GNS™ core location houses multiple servers on different hardware and operating system platforms for maximum redundancy and security. All sites are redundant in themselves and to each other. If an entire GNS™ site failed, other sites around the world would continue to serve customers' domain data. The underlying domain server is optimized for speed of response. The server software is unique in its compliance with Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards, including IPv6 and DNSSEC. GNS™ includes a 99.99% uptime commitment and around-the-clock telephone and e-mail support.
Designed by Nominum's DNS and networking experts, GNS™ provides the ideal platform to support the domain name infrastructure essential to Internet operations. GNS™ features a web-based graphical interface that allows DNS administrators to easily enter, view, modify and delete domain information for their networks. A “time travel” feature makes it easy to revert to an older zone configuration if a user finds a problem with their current zone definition. GNS™ is the commercial architecture underlying the free secondary service, secondary.com, launched by Nominum in late January.
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, 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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