NeuStar

NeuStar, Inc. (own spelling: Neustar ) is an American information and communications service providers. The general public has become known as Domain Name Registry, the company.

History

At its founding in 1996, NeuStar was - at that time still under the name of Communications Industry Services - a business unit of defense contractor Lockheed Martin, which dealt with new services in the telecommunications sector. A year later the company won the tender for the North American Numbering Plan and is therefore up to now responsible for the administrative management of telephone numbers in the United States and Canada. As part of the acquisition of COMSAT by Lockheed Martin, NeuStar was converted in 1999 into a separate company in order to ensure the neutrality of the business of COMSAT.

2000 won the daughter NeuLevel, a joint venture between NeuStar and the Hoster MelbourneIT, the operation of the top -level domain. Biz. In the following years, the company has taken over the management of. Us ( 2001) as well. Tel (2007), also since 2002, acting as the technical operator of. Cn (China) and. Tw (Taiwan).

NeuStar went in 2005 to the stock market and has since been listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol NSR. Numerous other companies were acquired, for example, the DNS provider UltraDNS or Webmetrics, a specialist in network monitoring. In June 2013, ICANN announced a new contract with NeuStar. This allowed the company first to forgive. Biz domains to end-users themselves, without resorting to an accredited registrar.

Products

The product range of NeuStar is divided into two areas: Promote and Protect. Former includes web analytics, inbound marketing and other services that will directly serve promotion. Under Protect products are combined, however, the existing products are designed to protect services against problems - for example, against a distributed denial of service or congestion and loss of streaming offerings.

According to the company were among the customers of NeuStar example, Ticketmaster, Santander and Dollar Financial.

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