DICTIONARY.COM GOES BACK TO SCHOOL WITH ULTRADNS TO ENHANCE PERFORMANCE AND SECURITYDNS Market Leader Prepares Educational Website for School Year Traffic Surge BRISBANE, Calif., September 28, 2005 -- UltraDNS Corporation, the world's leading provider of Managed DNS services, today announced that Dictionary.com, a leading provider of reference products and services on the Internet, has selected UltraDNS to improve online performance and network reliability. The UltraDNS infrastructure provides Dictionary.com with massive scale and efficient management of the millions of online visitors who utilize its services during the start of a new school year. Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com are owned and operated by the Lexico Publishing Group. All of Lexico's web properties are deployed on the UltraDNS global network distributed across four continents. "We have fortified our high-traffic web properties for future growth, due in part to the significant increased traffic that Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com receive at the beginning of the school year when students around the world need assistance," said Brian Kariger, Lexico's CEO. "We chose UltraDNS because they are the proven leader in providing customized outsourced DNS solutions that deliver the highest degree of reliability and security. As we continue to grow internationally, UltraDNS will ensure that our millions of global users always have fast and reliable access to our sites." The UltraDNS global network and directory services platform provides the critical infrastructure that Dictionary.com requires to achieve the highest levels of network performance and reliability. Through proprietary advanced routing technologies in the UltraDNS global network, Dictionary.com's clients' requests are directed to the geographically closest server in the network, enabling the fastest and most reliable response times. "The Internet has become an irreplaceable educational resource to students around the world," said Ben Petro, president and CEO, UltraDNS. "UltraDNS is committed to ensuring that the global DNS infrastructure for leading knowledge sources such as Dictionary.com scales to meet this growing demand." About Lexico Publishing Group
About UltraDNS 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. # # # |