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Press Releases
Nominum Selected to Host IN-ADDR.ARPA Domain Delegations
Apr 20 2001
"Redwood City, Calif. - April 20, 2001 - Nominum, the world leader in development and support of Internet naming and address management solutions, and the America Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), one of three Regional Internet Registries worldwide, today announced an agreement where Nominum will supply domain name services to host ARIN's portion of the IN-ADDR.ARPA domain delegations.
Nominum will provide its proprietary Global Name Service (GNS), a complete outsource solution for DNS operations, giving ARIN the stability and reliability necessary for careful management of IP address space - a critical factor in Internet performance. In addition to IP address registrations for its region, ARIN administers much of the data in the IN-ADDR.ARPA domain, which makes inverse address (address-to-name) domain lookups possible. Although not as frequently used as name-to-address, inverse address lookups are crucial to the smooth operation of the Internet, and Nominum's GNS will be employed to support this functionality.
"The IN-ADDR.ARPA domain requires a stable, reliable infrastructure to support it. Nominum's GNS will enhance our ability to provide the best possible service to the Internet community." said Ray Plzak, president and CEO, ARIN.
GNS, the authoritative answer for domain name hosting service, offers a complete outsource solution with a guaranteed uptime commitment for secondary or primary DNS. GNS is based on a multi-site, multi-server, multi-networked infrastructure that is designed to offer the most reliable, fault-tolerant and user-friendly DNS possible. Each backbone GNS site is located at an Internet exchange point in order to be optimally positioned for network speed and reliability. Backbone GNS locations house multiple servers on different hardware and operating system platforms in order to maximize redundancy and security.
"We are pleased to have been selected by ARIN and its members to provide critical infrastructure aimed at increasing the stability of inverse address data and operations," said Will Thomas, president and CEO, Nominum.
About ARIN
ARIN is a non-profit organization established for the purpose of administration and registration of Internet Protocol (IP) numbers for North America, South America, the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa. ARIN promotes the conservation of IP address space, maintains impartiality while determining the size of address blocks to be allocated or assigned, and supports efforts to keep the global routing tables to a manageable size to ensure routability of information over the Internet. Continued operation of the Internet depends, in part, upon the conservation and efficient use of IP address space.
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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