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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
Key People
Dan Kimball, CEO

DNS.com provides managed global anycast DNS and geolocation services.

History

DNS.com was originally founded by Dan Kimball, Brian Smith, Sean Stafford, and Eric Radtke in 1991[1] 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.com was acquired by Comwired Inc. in 2010.[3] It was then acquired by Comodo, an internet security company, in 2011.[4]

Network

DNS.com has nodes located in the following cities:[5]

  • 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