Hosting the Leading Websites:

Hosts of High-Tech Customers:

Neustar

A Host of Hi-Tech Customers

Customers with high-tech expertise in computers and websites of their own were researched for their hosting. Hosts with two or more of these knowledgeable customers were then listed in my main list, and here is one of these hosts.

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1–2%: Neustar

This includes ultradns.com.

Neustar announced its acquisition by a group including Golden Gate Capital, an investment firm for which its six major areas of investment include IT and business services and thus is not itself primarily an IT firm. Neustar is considered here as a separate entity.

The same information about Neustar is also in a single list of all of these hosts.

Reviews

• DNS Comparison, Anycast Review, as accessed November 24, 2016


• Top Ten Reviews, Neustar SiteProtect Review (November, 2016), as accessed November 24, 2016


• The New York Times, UltraDNS Server Problem Pulls Down Websites, Including Netflix, for 90 Minutes (October, 2015), as accessed November 24, 2016


• Network World, Amazon Doesn’t Eat Its Own DNS Dogfood: User Questions If Route 53 Is Good Enough For Amazon (November, 2014), as accessed November 24, 2016


• The WHIR (Web Host Industry Review), UltraDNS Mitigates Massive DDoS Attack (May, 2014), as accessed November 24, 2016


• SolveDNS, UltraDNS (June, 2014), as accessed November 24, 2016


• Quora, What is Your Review of Neustar? (1 review) (June, 2013), as accessed November 24, 2016


• CloudHarmony, Comparison and Analysis of Managed DNS Providers (August, 2012), as accessed November 24, 2016


• CircleID, Top Public DNS Resolvers Compared (April, 2011), as accessed November 24, 2016


• bitplumber.net, Review of Moving From NeuStar UltraDNS to Dynect Managed DNS Service (May, 2010), as accessed November 24, 2016


• ZDNet, DDoS attack on UltraDNS Affects Amazon.com, SalesForce.com, Petco.com (April, 2009), as accessed November 24, 2016

Nations

You might not care in which nations your hosting provider has its servers. But if you do, Neustar said it has its Internet connections in the United States. That’s according to its website, as accessed February 25, 2018. More locations are possible; if you’re concerned, ask Neustar.

Note

The Neustar link URL and those on Neustar’s being acquired and regarding Golden Gate Capital were as accessed December 25, 2016.