Internet security company Comodo has purchased DNS.com, an aptly named provider of hosted Domain Name System (DNS) services. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
DNS.com no doubt benefited greatly from that three-letter domain name in terms of branding.
Comwired, as the company was previously called, acquired the domain in a private transaction less than a year ago.
With the acquisition of the managed DNS services provider, Comodo is launching a new service called ‘Comodo Authoritative DNS’ as it enables the company to roll out secured DNS services for its existing business customers.
Comodo posits that the acquisition will also boost its relationships with datacenters around the world, in order to deploy additional points of presence near major population zones, adding to DNS.com’s network.
DNS.com will join the Comodo family of brands and the founding team – including former CEO Dan Kimball – will join Comodo and keep developing managed DNS services.
DNS.com is provider of managed DNS hosting and geo-location services. The company provides an advanced geo-targeting and multi-factor traffic splitting platform on a globally distributed IP anycast network. The service is used directly by enterprises and integrated into web applications around the world seeking to optimize their web traffic and provide flexible, personalized content to end users. The DNS.com network and control panel were designed to offer industrial strength DNS on a distributed global network that can withstand the toughest...
Comodo is an internet security company providing consumers with a variety of free and paid firewall, antivirus, system cleaner, backup, and PC support products and services. Their primary free product is Comodo Internet Security, a security suite combining firewall and antivirus software. Comodo is also a leading SSL certificate provider, which they offer freely for 90 days.
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