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Press Releases UltraDNS Purchases Nominum's DNS Hosting Customer Base Oct 9 2002 SAN MATEO, CA., October 9, 2002 - UltraDNS corporation, the leading Directory Infrastructure Services Provider (DISP), today announced the acquisition of Nominum's DNS hosting customer base and the Secondary DNS (www.secondary.com) property. Under the terms of the agreement, UltraDNS will begin serving all of Nominum's DNS hosting customers, including several country code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) and several generic TLDs (gTLDs), including .no (Norway), .lu (Luxembourg), .ie (Ireland), and .coop. The transition to UltraDNS' Managed DNS Service will be seamless for Nominum's DNS hosting customers. UltraDNS will begin to resolve queries for all of Nominum's DNS hosting customers, including some 5,000 Secondary DNS customers. "Nominum has always been an Internet leader and a fantastic competitor. We credit them for showing concern for their customers by selecting UltraDNS' carrier-class server network as the new service provider for their DNS hosting needs. Keeping the public network of DNS servers diversified reduces the possibility of a widespread BIND-related disaster of the public Internet," said Ben Petro, president and CEO of UltraDNS. "This sale follows a strategic decision by Nominum to exit the outsourced management business and concentrate on developing a new generation of enterprise software products for DNS and DHCP," said Chris Risley, CEO of Nominum. "The sale enables Nominum to focus on delivering our best-in-class technology for IP address infrastructure in the form of commercially-licensed software." Terms of the deal are not disclosed. About UltraDNS Based in San Mateo, Calif., UltraDNS™ Corporation is the leading Directory Infrastructure Services Provider (DISP), delivering solutions that enhance the reliability and performance of the world's largest directories and the mission-critical applications that access them. UltraDNS provides managed services and also develops custom infrastructure solutions based on its proprietary Directory Services Platform, the first global directory infrastructure capable of the most demanding database problems -- such as Internet site requests. Customers include Oracle, MSN Hotmail, Forbes.com, Corio, and Handspring. For more information, visit www.ultradns.com. About Nominum Nominum is a pioneering provider of IP address infrastructure software for enterprises that require reliable and secure DNS, DHCP and IP address management for their mission critical networks. Nominum is driving the future of IP addressing. For more information about Nominum, go to www.nominum.com. Contacts: UltraDNS Corporation Stephanie Pike Tel: 650-227-2638 Fax: 650-227-2662 spike@ultradns.com Nominum, Inc. Laura Hendriksen Tel: 650-381-6018 laura.hendriksen@nominum.com