Forbes.com Enhances Web Site Integrity with UltraDNS

UltraDNS Ensures 100 Percent Reliable Domain Name Resolution for Forbes.com -- The Trusted Resource for Business and Investment Leaders

SAN MATEO, Calif. February 13, 2002 -- UltraDNS™ Corporation today announced that Forbes.com, a leading Internet media company, has selected UltraDNS to manage its Domain Name System (DNS). Forbes.com joins a growing number of leading Internet brands like Oracle and MSN Hotmail that outsource DNS management to ensure the integrity, reliability and security of their Web sites. UltraDNS's Managed DNS ServiceTM guarantees 100 percent uptime for the world's business leaders that rely on Forbes.com for award-winning commentary, analysis, financial tools and real-time reporting.

"Our users rely on Forbes.com for timely, relevant content and our advertisers expect quantifiable exposure to our readers, the world's business leaders," said Michael Smith, chief technology officer of Forbes.com. "A brand like ours cannot afford downtime due to DNS errors or denial of service attacks. Forbes.com is a trusted resource for business information on the Web and UltraDNS helps us insure the integrity of that value proposition."

According to Ray Stephens, vice president of marketing for UltraDNS, "Forbes.com's decision to select UltraDNS for outsourced DNS management will not only increase the reliability and security of their website, it will allow the company to streamline and lower IT expenditures, increase manageability, and propagate DNS changes worldwide, in less than five minutes, giving the company the assurance that they are providing their end users with the best online experience."

Freeing the Web from a "BIND"
The current DNS system is based on open-source software called BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) that became the de facto standard but was never developed for commercial use. Consequently, BIND is prone to failure and exploitation by hackers. BIND tops The SANS Institute's list of Internet security risk factors, and in a traffic analysis done by performance measurement company Keynote Systems, BIND-based DNS was responsible for 29 percent of Web page download failures. CERT, a center of Internet security expertise at the Software Engineering Institute, a federally funded research and development center operated by Carnegie Mellon University, cited that over 85 percent of top level domains are using outdated or unknown versions of BIND.

Using Oracle relational database technology and its Directory Services Platform, UltraDNS has built the first global, fail-safe server network designed to meet demands for 100 percent, SLA-guaranteed reliability, scalability, security, and high performance data management in today's Internet and telecom environment - supporting millions of users managing billions of records.

About Forbes.com
Forbes.com Inc., a leading Internet media company, is among the most trusted resources for the world's business leaders, providing them the uncompromising commentary, relevant tools and concise analysis they need to succeed at work, profit from investing and have fun with the rewards of winning. The Forbes.com Web site, located at http://www.forbes.com, includes original reporting on business, technology, investing, and lifestyle, with real-time business information news updates; the complete online editions of Forbes magazine, Forbes Global, Forbes ASAP and Forbes FYI; stock and mutual fund quotes; comprehensive company profiles; an expanded online version of the Forbes.com Best of The Web guide; a wide array of interactive tools, calculators and databases, including People Tracker, the annual Forbes Lists; and a Lifestyle section that currently focuses on high-end vehicles, collecting and real estate.

About UltraDNS
Based in San Mateo, Calif., UltraDNS Corporation is the leading Directory Infrastructure Services Provider (DISP), delivering solutions that enhance the reliability and performance of the world's largest directories and the mission-critical applications that access them. UltraDNS provides managed services and also develops custom infrastructure solutions based on its proprietary Directory Services Platform, the first global directory infrastructure capable of the most demanding database problems -- such as Internet site requests. Customers include Oracle, MSN Hotmail, Corio, Handspring, and Petco. For more information, visit www.neustarultraservices.biz.

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