Nominum

Nominum is a Silicon Valley software company headquartered in Redwood City, California, United States.

Nominum focuses on carrier-grade DNS-based products for telecommunications service providers in the areas of network infrastructure, network security, subscriber-defined content filtering 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 threats such as DNS-based distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS), amplification attacks and botnets. Internet security solutions protect small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), public wi-fi networks and residential subscribers 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 benefit fixed and mobile operators through increased service agility, improved ARPU, stronger brand loyalty and better competitive advantage.

History

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.^[1]

Under the leadership of Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of the DNS ^[2] and Ted Lemon, author of the first widely used DHCP implementation,^[3] 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 ^[4] 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 ^[5] and supporting over 500 million internet users worldwide.^[6]

In 2009 the company introduced a new DNS security capability that functions as a spam blacklist, providing automated, real-time checking of DNS queries against a list of known malicious sites.^[7] This was based on Nominum’s Trusted Response and Universal Enforcement (TRUE) technology, which protects broadband users and devices against a range of Internet threats and malicious content.^[8]

In 2012, Nominum worked with Microsoft to take down the botnet Nitol.^[9]

In November 2013, Nominum launched N2 ThreatAvert, software for fixed-line and mobile networks, designed to stop the spread of threats that originate from within the network itself.^[10]

In February 2014, the company announced the launch of a suite of N2 applications for fixed-line and mobile networks.^[11] The applications N2 Engage and N2 Reach use DNS to enable customer care and marketing teams to send targeted communications and offers via in-browser messaging to their subscribers.^[12]

Products

Nominum products are categorized under two brands:

Vantio™: DNS engines and security products targeted to telecommunication network infrastructure teams
N2: DNS-based customer and marketing applications targeted to telecommunication marketing, customer experience management, billing and revenue management, legal and regulatory compliance, value-added services, and cybersecurity defense teams^[13]

Network Infrastructure (DNS)

Vantio CacheServe – Caching DNS server
Vantio AuthServe – Authoritative DNS server

Security

N2 ThreatAvert – DNS network security
N2 Secure Business – Small and medium-sized business internet security and protection from inappropriate content, phishing and malicious software
N2 Secure Public Wi-Fi – Wi-fi internet security and protection from inappropriate content, phishing and malicious software
N2 Secure Consumer – Home internet security and protection from inappropriate content, phishing and malicious software

Marketing and Customer Experience

N2 Reach – Subscriber Communications

Funding

Since its launch in 1999, Nominum has received $41M in total funding.^[14] The company’s investors include Bessemer Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Venture Partners, Advanced Technology Ventures, and Globespan Global Partners.^[15]

Partners

Nominum works with a variety of partners in the security industry, including IBM, F-Secure, Sophos, Fortinet and Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit. It also has relationships with several channel partners covering the EMEA, Latin America and Asia-Pacific markets.^[16]

Customers

Nominum's customers include more than 130 leading telecommunication service providers in over 40 countries.

References

External links

Official website

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