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October 9, 2002 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Directory infrastructure services provider UltraDNS Corporation (UltraDNS.com) announced on Wednesday that it has acquired competitor Nominum?s DNS hosting customer base as well as the Secondary DNS (Secondary.com) property.
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According to the terms of the agreement, UltraDNS will begin serving all of Nominum?s DNS hosting customers, including several country code top level domains and several generic TLDS, including .no for Norway, .lx for Luxembourg, .ie for Ireland and .coop.
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The acquisition, says UltraDNS, reinforces the company?s presence in the ccTLD and gTLD market, establishing the company as the largest infrastructure provider to the TLD space. The company?s non-BIND based Managed DNS Service already handles all DNS resolutions for the .info domain, and is a part of the ICANN staff-recommended bid for the .org domain.
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UltraDNS?s Managed DNS Service guanrantees 100 percent directory services reliability and high performance. Using its proprietary directory services platform, the company has built a global fail-safe server network designed to meet its SLA-guaranteed 100 percent reliability.
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“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,” says Chris Risley, CEO of Nominum. “The sale reinforces UltraDNS’ position as a significant player in the outsourced management services market, and enables Nominum to focus on delivering our best-in-class technology for IP address infrastructure in the form of commercially-licensed software.”
