Comodo Acquires DNS.com; Launches Authoritative DNS Service

📅 February 10, 2011 - Acquisition of DNS.com paves way for new choices in anycast DNS market, moves the company into the business of securing DNS.

Comodo, a provider of digital security services and software, today announced the acquisition of DNS.com, the managed Domain Name System (DNS) services provider, and the launch of its Authoritative DNS Service. The company says that DNS.com will join the Comodo family of companies and the founding team including Dan Kimball, former CEO of DNS.com, will join it and continue the development of the next generation of DNS services.

It mentions that DNS.com plays a key role in directing and managing internet traffic, including the availability and security of websites and email. DNS.com's global network of name servers helps visitors get improved performance from websites, content, and applications, ensuring that websites perform optimally.

The company explains that DNS - the Domain Name System - is the heart of the Internet's naming infrastructure, acting as a virtual directory matching domain names to IP addresses so that internet users get to where they need to go. As a pioneer in online security services, the company brings a wealth of experience and access to a multinational network of security professionals that will immediately benefit DNS.com customers. The acquisition leverages its relationships with data centers around the world to deploy additional points of presence near major population zones, adding to DNS.com's highly recoverable network and allowing customers to remain instantly scalable even at high volumes. The combination of a well-established security strategy and proprietary state-of-the-art technologies provides a protective shield to DNS.com customers, offering rapid fire protection to detect and repel DNS attacks that can compromise organizations and open the door to malicious activity.

It states that DNS.com has recently scaled its infrastructure and deployed hardware upgrades across its network, adding six new nodes for a total of 14 edge locations in places like Seattle, Frankfurt, and Singapore. DNS.com continues to partner with leading Registrars and web hosting providers to outsource those organizations' DNS infrastructure and offer advanced DNS options to their customers. DNS.com offers packages based on queries per month.

The company claims that this acquisition gives it the ability to immediately roll out secured DNS to the company's large base of business customers who require such a solution. DNS.com's managed, hosted service means there is no infrastructure for a company to build or deploy. Customers will have full access to DNS.com's 14 global anycast edge nodes, easy to use web based control panel, security expertise, and JSON API.

"DNS.com offers unique integrated services and internet business solutions that makes this a perfect fit for Comodo's expansion in the security arena as well as accommodating Comodo's partner-resellers," said Melih Abdulhayoglu, Comodo CEO and Chief Security Architect. "We are delighted to add DNS.com into the mix of our security arsenal providing our customers an added dimension of security service."

Dan Kimball said, "Your online experience relies heavily on DNS to operate. Comodo is here to make DNS better. We are excited to leverage Comodo's global infrastructure and processes to build up the most cutting edge DNS solutions on the market. As we help businesses scale to meet demand, DNS.com customers will now benefit from Comodo's extensive resources and security expertise."