DNS.com
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| Type: | Privately Held |
| Industry: | Managed DNS Service |
| Founder(s): | Dan Kimball, Brian Smith, Sean Stafford, Eric Radtke |
| Ownership: | Comodo, 2011 |
| Headquarters: | 2815 Taylorsville Rd #301 Louisville, KY 40205 |
| Country: | USA |
| Website: | http://www.dns.com |
| Facebook: | DNScom |
| Twitter: |  @DNScom
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| Key People | |
| Dan Kimball, Former CEO | |
DNS.com provides managed global anycast DNS hosting and geolocation (also known as geotargeting and IP location) services.[1] The service detects the geographical location of a website's visitors and allows website administrators to determine traffic rules that will route visitors to geographically appropriate content or servers.
History
DNS.com was originally founded by Dan Kimball, Brian Smith, Sean Stafford, and Eric Radtke in 2008 as Comwired Inc., after two years of effort in forming a flexible, ultra reliable network solution for their small start-up business.[2] The original motivation for creating their own DNS was to create an innovative, bottom-up system, focused more on security and speed than traditional systems.[3]
Comwired Inc. purchased DNS.com in a private transaction in 2010,[4] and subsequently released a new website offering service plans tarketing the enterprise market.[5]
DNS.com was acquired by Comodo, an internet security company, in 2011,[6] with the plan to bring the DNS services originally created by Comwired Inc. to an even greater audience.[7]
Network
DNS.com has nodes located in the following cities:[8]
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Louisville, KY, USA
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Newark, NJ, USA
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Miami, FL, USA
- Dublin, Ireland
- Manchester, England
- Frankfurt, Germany
- Luxembourg
- Singapore
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