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February 14, 2002 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — UltraDNS Corporation (ultradns.com) today announced that
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Forbes.com has selected UltraDNS to manage its Domain Name System.
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Forbes.com joins a number of Internet brands like Oracle and MSN Hotmail
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that outsource DNS management to ensure the integrity and security of their
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Web sites. UltraDNS’s Managed DNS Service guarantees 100 percent uptime for
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users that count on Forbes.com for commentary, analysis, financial tools and
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realtime reporting.
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“Our users rely on Forbes.com for timely, relevant content and our
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advertisers expect quantifiable exposure to our readers, the world’s
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business leaders,” said Michael Smith, CTO of Forbes.com. “A brand like ours
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cannot afford downtime due to DNS errors or denial of service attacks.
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Forbes.com is a trusted resource for business information on the Web and
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UltraDNS helps us insure the integrity of that value proposition.”
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According to Ray Stephens, vice president of marketing for UltraDNS,
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“Forbes.com’s decision to select UltraDNS for outsourced DNS management will
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not only increase the reliability and security of their Web site, it will
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allow the company to streamline and lower IT expenditures, increase
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manageability, and propagate DNS changes worldwide, in less than five
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minutes, giving the company the assurance that they are providing their end
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users with the best online experience.”
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The current DNS system is based on open-source software called BIND
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(Berkeley Internet Name Domain) that became the de facto standard but was
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never developed for commercial use. Consequently, BIND is prone to failure
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and exploitation by hackers. BIND tops the SANS Institute’s list of Internet
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security risk factors, and in a traffic analysis done by performance
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measurement company Keynote Systems, BIND-based DNS was responsible for 29
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percent of Web page download failures. CERT, a center of Internet security
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expertise at the Software Engineering Institute, a federally funded research
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and development center operated by Carnegie Mellon University, cited that
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over 85 percent of top level domains are using outdated or unknown versions
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of BIND.
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Using Oracle relational database technology and its directory Services
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Platform, UltraDNS has built a global server network designed to meet
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demands for 100 percent SLA-guaranteed reliability, security, and
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performance data management.
