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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:17:20 -0800
From: susanl@connectedbrands.com
Subject: Nominum’s Secondary.com: A Secure Secondary DNS Hosting Service 
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Nominum’s Secondary.com: A Secure Secondary DNS Hosting Service 

Redwood City, California – January 25, 2001– Nominum, Inc. announced
plans to unveil a largely free secondary DNS hosting service Secondary.com,
(www.secondary.com)  at LinuxWorld, January 30th through February 2nd at
the Javits Convention Center in New York City in Booth 2357.

Secondary.com is based upon Nominum’s Global Name Service (GNS tm)
infrastructure.  "As the developers of the BIND DNS server, BIND 9, we feel
uniquely qualified to offer such a service," said Will Thomas, President
and CEO of Nominum. "Our GNS platform is built not only on our expertise,
but on a redundant network infrastructure of servers situated around the
world.” This service is offered free of charge to customers with five or
fewer domains and less than 100 records overall.  Secondary hosting
services are also available to customers with larger domains on a fee
basis.

Nominum offers Secondary.com as part of its mission to improve the
infrastructure of the Internet. Some organizations run their own primary
DNS servers while others depend on their Internet Service Provider to do
so.  Good network architecture design says that organizations should also
have at least one secondary DNS server on an independent network connection
to provide a reliable backup to their primary server.  Although running a
secondary DNS server on an independent network is strongly encouraged, it
has proven difficult for many organizations to make reliable arrangements.
Nominum addresses the problems commonly found with secondary service
through an easy-to-use web interface that gives customers complete control
over their service and an infrastructure specifically designed to provide
fast, reliable response to DNS queries. Secondary.com allows customers to
take a pro-active role ensuring the availability of their DNS.

About Nominum 

Nominum, Inc. is the world’s leading provider of Internet naming and
address management solutions that provide the Domain Name Service (DNS)
necessary for virtually all internetworking software. Nominum supports and
writes the implementation known as Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND),
the most commonly used domain name server on the Internet, as well as
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), the most widely used Open
Source software for the automated assignment of IP addresses. BIND and DHCP
are freely available as Open Source via the Internet Software Consortium's
website: http://www.isc.org/. Nominum
offers enterprise customers, e-commerce businesses, Internet Service
Providers and telecommunications companies infrastructure assistance with
their most demanding name and IP address management requirements via
training, technical support, consulting and outsourcing solutions.  For
more information about Nominum, please visit their web site at
www.nominum.com.

Contacts:                                                

ConnectedBrands
Susan Luinetti
650-306-1558 ext 162
650-868-6069 cell                           
susanl@connectedbrands.com                                      


Nominum
Laura Hendriksen
650-381-6018
Laura.Hendriksen@nominum.com