As the CEO of Nominum, Inc, a leading provider of DNS software to the Internet, our customer base routinely asks us to comment on Internet events. Sometimes these events come in the form of wide scale vulnerabilities, global regulatory efforts, Internet policy, market initiatives and security issues. Other times, these events come in the form of new services or solutions offered by other companies or groups.
In the past, we’ve offered our inputs privately to our customers in the form of advisories, briefings and recommendations. Today, our DNS based solutions speed up and secure the Internet for 500 million fixed and mobile Internet users, around the world, all the time. That’s 30% of the world’s Internet users – many of whom are also beginning to enjoy the added resiliency and other benefits of our cloud and advanced services. With this kind of impact, our views can no longer be purely private matters.
The goal of the .tom blog is to allow other Internet participants to review and understand our perspective. The blog is intended to make available the track record of thought that we share with our customer base on a regular basis.
Our role in the Internet will continue to grow. And, this is a pretty big responsibility that we take very seriously. We work hard every day to build a better, safer, faster and smarter Internet for everyone. But to us, this is not enough. We are also working hard with our customers – in many cases, the world’s top ISPs – to improve security, usefulness and the fabric of the Internet itself. This blog provides a mechanism to share views on how society uses the Internet, how we all can benefit from network level improvements and how protocols and solutions can work even better.
Thank you for visiting this blog. I hope you enjoy the postings and, more importantly, I hope you find them useful and worthwhile. I encourage you to drop me a line to let me know what you think.
.tom
I am very glad to see this new blog from the leading provider of DNS services. The information that you can share with ISP’s; Companies; and individuals will help educate us all and hopefully help create a much safer medium to do profitable yet secure on-line business.
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Hello Mark,
A warm welcome to the .tom blog! Thank you for taking the time to write. I think that the DNS is going to play a much more recognized role in the Internet to come, and feel that as a leading provider it is our job to ensure that a running dialogue is kept to ensure a safer Internet for everyone.
I look forward to hearing any impressions you may have about future postings.
Best,
Tom
Hi Tom,
Happy Sunday! I hope you are enjoying your weekend.
I am very glad to see this new blog from the leading provider of DNS services. The information that you can share with ISP’s; Companies; and individuals will help educate us all and hopefully help create a much safer medium to do profitable yet secure on-line business.
I look forward to your future postings on Trends, Security, Choice, Changes, Future Services, etc…
With best regard,
Kevin
Hi Kevin!
I really appreciate your kind words. If you have any questions or ideas for future posts please don’t hesitate to drop me a line.
Thanks,
Tom