.tom is written by Tom Tovar, CEO at Nominum. Each week Tom will bring you insights on the industry and trends online. For more information on Tom, or Nominum, visit our website.
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
