CircleID Selects UltraDNS to Provide Advanced Managed DNS Services

Influential Online Platform Looks to Managed DNS Leader for Superior Performance and Security

RESTON, Virginia, February 23, 2006 -- UltraDNS™ Corporation, the world's leading provider of Managed DNS services, today announced that CircleID, the pre-eminent online community for technical and political Internet discussions, has chosen UltraDNS to strengthen its online presence. Given the importance of its DNS infrastructure to the online experience, CircleID has outsourced this critical component to UltraDNS in order to ensure the highest possible reliability and security for the destination site of a prestigious international community.

"As an open global industry journal, CircleID's web site has become a key online destination for some of the Internet's core and heated debates involving the world's leading authorities and experts," said Ali Farshchian, Founder of CircleID. "UltraDNS has been a very responsible steward of many TLD's and has taken key steps to make the global DNS more secure, so we're proud to be a client. We will be launching additional online community platforms in the near future, and are confident UltraDNS will ensure that our DNS requirements can easily scale to match our growth."

CircleID.com is a well-recognized destination for in-depth discussions and analysis of the Internet's core technology and its policies. The web site is designed as an open platform for Internet debate, and is updated daily. It is read widely by the leading technical, business, legal and political members of the Internet community throughout the world.

"CircleID is widely respected for its compelling content and the quality of the debate it attracts," said Jeffrey Samuels, General Manager and Executive Vice President of Marketing, UltraDNS. "We are very pleased to have UltraDNS technology support this forum and foster the open exchange of ideas and opinions so critical to the continued development of the Internet."

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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