October 7, 2010 — DNS solutions provider Neustar announced on Wednesday its board of directors has named Lisa Hook the company’s new president and CEO. Previously serving as president and chief operating officer, Hook succeeds founding CEO Jeffrey E. Ganek who will remain as chairman of the board. The appointment will be effective October 15.
December 29, 2009 — An attack directed at Neustar, the domain name system services provider for Amazon, Wal-Mart, and Expedia, and other large e-commerce companies, took several Internet shopping sites offline the night before Christmas Eve, taking out sites completely or rendering them sluggish for about an hour, and leaving some last-minute shoppers in a lurch.