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UltraDNS is a subsidiary of NeuStar. UltraDNS offers managed DNS and traffic management services. UltraDNS claims their managed DNS solutions are "capable of processing thousands of queries per second". <ref>[http://www.neustarreferrals.biz/ultradns-r UltraDNS]</ref> Services offered by UltraDNS are mainly targeted towards companies and businesses rather than individuals, UltraDNS saying that they provide " solutions to organizations that rely on DNS for their critical business processes, applications and services, delivering superior security, reliability and performance." <ref>[http://ultradns.com/company/overview.html UltraDNS company overview]</ref>


== History ==

The domain ultradns.com was registered on June 29, 1998 <ref>[http://www.dailychanges.com/ultradns.com/ DailyChanges UltraDNS page]</ref> but the company was founded in 1999, in Brisbane, California in the United States of America. <ref>[http://venturebeatprofiles.com/company/profile/ultradns UltraDNS page on VentureBeatProfiles]</ref>

An article featured in the edition of Business Wire that appeared on July 31, 2000 mentioned UltraDNS as being the "First Company to Offer Outsourced Infrastructure Solutions for Large, Directory-Initiated Applications". <ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2000_July_31/ai_63763422/ UltraDNS Corporation Formed To Lead Innovations In Services-Based Internet Infrastructure Solutions, Business Wire]</ref>

UltraDNS provides DNS services to important names in the on-line industry like Oracle.com, LinkedIn.com, Myspace.com, Amazon.com, Gap.com, Diamond.com and others.

The company was not avoided by problems in its history, as on 31 May 2009 NetworkWorld reported that a number of important websites which used the services of UltraDNS, including Petco.com, Advertising.com, SalesForce.com and Amazon.com, experienced downtime of up to a couple of hours, due to a Distributed Denial of Service (D-Dos) attack. <ref>[http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/033109-ultradns-service-attacked.html Some UltraDNS customers knocked offline by attack]</ref> A similar report appeared on the ZDNet blog. <http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/ddos-attack-on-ultradns-affects-amazoncom-salesforcecom-petcocom/15601 DDoS attack on UltraDNS affects Amazon.com, SalesForce.com, Petco.com]</ref> This was quite a hit to the company as they claim that their services also "protect your customers’ Web operations from DNS-based DDoS attacks and pharming attacks from DNS cache poisoning. Our redundant infrastructure means no single point of failure."<ref>[http://www.neustarreferrals.biz/ultradns-r UltraDNS on NeuStar]</ref>


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