DNS.com: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 05:03, 19 April 2011


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
Key People
Dan Kimball, 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 2010.^[4]

DNS.com was acquired by Comodo, an internet security company, in 2011.^[5]

Network

DNS.com has nodes located in the following cities:^[6]

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

References

[1] CrunchBase

[2] About DNS.com

[3] The Whir Interview with Dan Kimball

[4] The Whir Interview with Dan Kimball

[5] CrunchBase

[6] DNS.com

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 ==History==
-DNS.com was originally founded by [[Dan Kimball]], [[Brian Smith]], [[Sean Stafford]], and [[Eric Radtke]] in 1991<ref>[http://www.crunchbase.com/company/dns-com CrunchBase]</ref> after two years of effort in forming a flexible, ultra reliable network solution for their small start-up business.<ref>[http://www.dns.com/company/ About DNS.com]</ref> 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.<ref>[http://www.thewhir.com/blog/Stacy_Griggs/042910_Interview_With_DNScom The Whir Interview with Dan Kimball]</ref>
+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.<ref>[http://www.dns.com/company/ About DNS.com]</ref> 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.<ref>[http://www.thewhir.com/blog/Stacy_Griggs/042910_Interview_With_DNScom The Whir Interview with Dan Kimball]</ref>
-They did not acquire the present domain name (DNS.com) until they purchased it in 2010.<ref>[http://www.thewhir.com/blog/Stacy_Griggs/042910_Interview_With_DNScom The Whir Interview with Dan Kimball]</ref>
+Comwired Inc. purchased DNS.com in 2010.<ref>[http://www.thewhir.com/blog/Stacy_Griggs/042910_Interview_With_DNScom The Whir Interview with Dan Kimball]</ref>
-DNS.com was acquired by [[Comwired]] Inc. in 2010,<ref>[http://www.domainersmagazine.com/Jul-Aug-Issue-22/DNS.com-The-Next-Geo-Targeting-Solution.html Domainers Magazine]</ref> and then later by [[Comodo]], an internet security company, in 2011.<ref>[http://www.crunchbase.com/company/dns-com CrunchBase]</ref>
+DNS.com was acquired by [[Comodo]], an internet security company, in 2011.<ref>[http://www.crunchbase.com/company/dns-com CrunchBase]</ref>
 ==Network==