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UltraDNS Announces Launch of Ultra Recursive Service Hosted Recursive-Only Service Industry First for Enhanced DNS Performance SAN MATEO, Calif. November 12, 2001 -- UltraDNS™ Corporation today announced the availability of Ultra Recursive ServiceTM, an unprecedented solution exclusively for hosted recursive DNS (Domain Name System) service. The new service offers significant performance advantages for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and large enterprises seeking to increase the speed and reliability of their recursive DNS service without having to acquire, deploy, and manage expensive technologies in-house. As a third-party hosted service, Ultra Recursive DNS delivers unparalleled speed and reliability because it runs on UltraDNS's proprietary directory infrastructure platform, which can deliver users to their queried destinations more quickly than local recursive servers. Furthermore, Ultra Recursive Service provides optimal performance because it is unencumbered by the weaknesses of BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain), the common Internet directory technology used by the majority of Web sites. The resulting performance benefits include the elimination of dropped connections, more responsive site performance and exceptional user experience. "Ultra Recursive Service signifies another raise of the bar for providing hosted DNS services to service providers and enterprises looking to cut costs and improve performance by outsourcing their DNS solutions," said Ray Stephens vice president marketing of UltraDNS. "Until now, ISPs and enterprises had no alternative for eliminating the inherent risk of recursive server failure. Ultra Recursive Service runs on our own DNS infrastructure, so we can provide a service that no one else has which not only finds Web sites faster but also ensures they will always be accesible." Standard best practices call for the recursive DNS server and authoritative DNS server to be separate entities on the network, to separate functionality and reduce the risk of total failure. Since most in-house recursive DNS solutions run on BIND, they require specific configurations to disable them from serving as both the local recursive server and the authoritative DNS server. Consequently, most organizations run recursive and authoritative DNS on the same server, and BIND is unable to meet the demanding reliability, performance, scalability and manageability requirements of e-businesses and their service providers. Ultra Recursive Service eliminates this dilemma with a robust, hosted recursive DNS solution that acts as a local recursive server, offering performance benefits throughout large enterprises as well as to end-user customers of ISPs. The Ultra Recursive Service's user interface (UI) allows for complete account control and increased manageability. Ultra Recursive Service saves time, cuts costs, and increases productivity. For more information about Ultra Recursive Service or UltraDNS's other managed and hosted DNS services please visit www.neustarultraservices.biz. About UltraDNS |