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Nominum is an American software company headquartered in Redwood City, California, United States. Nominum focuses on DNS-based analytics, network infrastructure and network security for telecommunication service providers.〔http://nominum.com/our-company/〕 The company develops caching and authoritative DNS software designed to maintain network reliability and performance. It also develops software designed to prevent the spread of inside threats such as botnets and DNS-based amplification attacks in service provider networks.〔http://technews.tmcnet.com/networkpacketbrokerreport/topics/network-packet-broker/articles/364167-nominums-vantio-cacheserve-54-fair-solution-dns-amplification.htm〕 The company recently launched applications based on Subscriber Internet activity analytics. These DNS-based applications are designed to increase customer retention, engagement and monetization. == 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.〔http://nextgendistribution.com.au/portfolio/nominum/〕 Under the leadership of Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of the DNS 〔http://internethalloffame.org/inductees/paul-mockapetris〕 and Ted Lemon, author of the first widely used DHCP implementation,〔http://www.amazon.com/The-DHCP-Handbook-2nd-Edition/dp/0672323273/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395779195&sr=8-1&keywords=9780672323270〕 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 〔http://www.lightreading.com/ethernet-ip/nominum-takes-telefand-243nica/d/d-id/618637〕 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 〔http://ovum.com/research/on-the-radar-nominum/〕 and supporting over 500 million internet users worldwide.〔http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120507_nominum_sets_new_record_for_network_speed_and_efficiency/〕 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.〔http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/081809-dns-blacklist.html?page=1〕 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.〔http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/10/15/idUS134517+15-Oct-2008+BW20081015〕 In 2012, Nominum worked with Microsoft to take down the botnet Nitol.〔http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/091412-microsoft-nitol-botnet-262457.html〕 In November 2013, Nominum launched Vantio ThreatAvert, software for fixed-line and mobile networks, designed to stop the spread of threats that originate from within the network itself.〔http://www.telecompaper.com/news/nominum-launches-vantio-threatavert-product--975644〕 In February 2014, the company announced the launch of a suite of N2 applications for fixed-line and mobile networks.〔http://www.teleanalysis.com/news/nominum-launches-n2-applications-5490.html〕 The applications N2 Care, N2 Engage and N2 Promote use DNS-based Internet activity data to enable customer care and marketing teams to send targeted communications and offers via in-browser messaging to their subscribers.〔http://ovum.com/research/on-the-radar-nominum/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nominum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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