UltraDNS Scores Hole-in-One with PGA.com

UltraDNS' Managed DNS Service Enables Quick, Easy DNS Changes to Support On-the-Fly, Dynamic Content Delivery

SAN MATEO, Calif., May 23, 2001 UltraDNS™ Corporation, the leading Directory Infrastructure Services Provider (DISP), which guarantees mission-critical directory reliability and performance, announced today that it has signed major sports media outlet PGA.com, the official Web site of the Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA). Under the customer agreement, PGA.com will utilize UltraDNS' Managed DNST Service as the outsourced solution for its Domain Name System (DNS) capabilities on the Web.

UltraDNS' carrier-class directory infrastructure allows DNS changes to propagate globally in less than five minutes, enabling PGA.com to enhance users' online experience with more dynamic content. PGA.com's web staff will also benefit from the Managed DNS Service's easy-to-use browser-based user interface, which significantly simplifies the process of updating Web server information.

PGA.com is a popular Web destination for golf enthusiasts, delivering breaking-news updates during tournaments, as well as dynamic content that depends on fast, reliable DNS. Online traffic for the site during the PGA Championship last August topped 75 million hits in only 4 days.

"Ease of use and worldwide propagation of DNS changes in less than 5 minutes were the key factors that made us choose UltraDNS' Managed DNS Service," said PGA.com webmaster Kevin Donohue. "It used to take our ISP up to 4 days to propagate our DNS changes. Now, we are able to change our content delivery infrastructure on the fly, enabling our web site to be more dynamic and provide a more robust experience for our customers, with timely, fresh content. We can also work more easily with other companies - for example, we can host a URL on a PGA server until a tournament begins, then switch over to a third-party server quickly and easily. With UltraDNS, the DNS changes we used to dread are no big deal."

"We've also eliminated DNS Red Alerts," Donohue continued. "If a major server or a cluster goes down, we can reroute DNS to our mirror sites in minutes using UltraDNS and the process is seamless to our customers. The Managed DNS Service is great for development servers too - we can point at different servers to test new content, collaborate with people in other geographic areas, and easily make changes via the UltraDNS graphical user interface (GUI) knowing that they will propagate in a few minutes. This is a remarkable improvement over the traditional DNS system we used to use."

"We're very pleased to welcome PGA.com to our Managed DNS Service. They are a major online sports media property that relies heavily on DNS infrastructure to support impressive traffic volume, provide breaking news, and make frequent DNS changes to support dynamic content," stated Ben Petro chief executive officer for UltraDNS. "By outsourcing to our fail-safe Managed DNS Service, PGA.com gains carrier-class DNS, 100% SLA-guaranteed reliability, less than 5 minute global propagation and the ability to make changes themselves easily, without waiting on an ISP."

UltraDNS solutions provide the core directory service capabilities that enable reliable operation of today's on-demand information-exchange applications. These solutions: enhance the performance, availability and profitability of web enterprises; reduce costs; increase customer acquisition, retention, and satisfaction; scale cost-effectively to meet global demand; guarantee reliability; and give network administrators direct control via a powerful, browser-based interface.

The foundation for all UltraDNS solutions is a high-performance Directory Service Platform that integrates the Company's cutting-edge hardware, software, Internet and networking innovations, and leverages its proprietary, patented technologies. UltraDNS has deployed this platform on a global, fail-safe server network, which currently supports the UltraDNS Managed DNS™ Service, the industry's first SLA-guaranteed, 100% reliable, outsourced service for running the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS).

About UltraDNS
UltraDNS Corporation is the world's leading Managed DNS Service Provider, delivering superior security, reliability and performance to organizations that rely on DNS for their critical business processes, applications and services. With the growth in e-commerce and the emergence of advanced DNS-based communication and supply chain management services, organizations can no longer rely on traditional approaches to DNS. On October 20th, 2005 UltraDNS launched the DNS Shield™ in partnership with major Internet Service Providers (ISPs) including AOL, Earthlink, Time Warner and Yahoo to provide the highest level of reliability and security to over 100 million Internet users.

UltraDNS provides a range of global and local DNS solutions - both managed services and custom infrastructure - built on its unique Directory Services Platform and proprietary, patented technologies. Through its thousands of enterprise, service provider and TLD infrastructure customers, UltraDNS powers the resolution of over 15 million domains around the globe. UltraDNS has offices in California, Virginia, Arizona, Chicago and the UK. For more information please visit www.ultradns.com.

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