DNS.com
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.
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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 | |
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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