Nominum
| Private | |
| Industry |
Telecommunications Security Software |
| Founded |
Redwood City, California, U.S. (1999) |
| Headquarters | Redwood City, California |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Gary Messiana (CEO) Srini Avirneni (CTO) Sandy Wilbourn (SVP Engineering) Kevin Lo (BOD Member) |
| Website | Nominum |
Nominum is a Silicon Valley software company headquartered in Redwood City, California, United States.
Nominum focuses on DNS-based products for telecommunications service providers in the areas of network infrastructure, network security, subscriber-defined content control and subscriber communications.
The company’s caching and authoritative DNS software is designed to maintain network reliability and performance. Its security software and data science team prevents the spread of inside threats such as botnets and DNS-based amplification attacks in service provider networks. Parental control and subscriber safety solutions protect households from malicious content such as phishing and ransomware. In-browser messaging enables service providers to communicate directly with subscribers. These DNS-based applications are designed to increase customer retention, engagement and monetization.
Nominum was founded in 1999 to develop BIND 9 and ISC DHCP3 for the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC). Following its work on these projects, Nominum undertook to create the world’s first commercial-grade DNS and DHCP solutions.
Under the leadership of Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of the DNS and Ted Lemon, author of the first widely used DHCP implementation, Nominum released two products: Caching Name Server (CNS) and Dynamic Configuration Server (DCS) – the first commercial-grade DNS and DHCP products – in 2002.
During the 2000s Nominum built up a customer base for its DNS technologies with the result that today, Nominum’s DNS software powers the networks of Communication Service Providers in 40 countries, involving 30% of global web traffic and supporting over 500 million internet users worldwide.
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