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Neustar
Neustar, Inc. is an American technology company that provides real-time information and analytics for the Internet, risk, digital performance and defense, telecommunications, entertainment, and marketing industries, and also provides clearinghouse and directory services to the global communications and Internet industries. Neustar is the domain name registry for .biz, .us (on behalf of United States Department of Commerce), .co, .nyc top-level domains (on behalf of the city of New York), and .in (on behalf of the National Internet Exchange of India).
Neustar was incorporated in Delaware in 1998. Neustar started as a business unit within Lockheed Martin Corporation. It was spun off to keep the neutrality that was essential to its original core contract with the nation's telecommunications providers.
In November 2006, Neustar completed the acquisition of Followap, Inc.,[2] a U.K.-based enabler of mobile instant messaging services.
In 2010, Neustar named Lisa Hook as president and chief operating officer. In January 2010, The Washington Post reported that under Hook's leadership, Neustar was chosen by a consortium of Hollywood studios and technology executives to manage a system whereby consumers could access movies and other video entertainment from multiple digital devices. This system was named "UltraViolet".[3]
In October 2011, Neustar acquired TARGUSInfo.[4]
On October 30, 2013, Neustar announced it purchased Aggregate Knowledge, a seven-year-old ad-tech firm, for $119 million.[5]
In March 2014, Neustar acquired .CO Internet for $109 million.[6]
On September 9, 2015, Asset Purchase Agreement between Transaction Network Services, Inc. and Neustar, Inc.[7]
On June 21, 2016, Neustar announced its intention to separate into two independent publicly traded companies.[8] These plans were abandoned when Golden Gate Capital and GIC announced plans to buy out all Neustar public shares for approximately $2.9 billion ($33.50 per share) on December 14, 2016.[9]
On July 22, 2016, Neustar lost the NPAC contract to Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) subsidiary Telcordia. Neustar had administered the number portability system since 1997. The local-number-portability administrator (LNPA) was created to handle the Number Portability Administration Center (NPAC), which enables users to take their phone numbers with them when they switch service providers. The NPAC manages the routing of all calls and texts for more than 650 million U.S. and Canadian phone numbers for more than 2,000 carriers.[10]
On August 8, 2017, Neustar announced the completion of its acquisition by Golden Gate Capital and GIC.[11]
On July 23, 2018, Neustar announced that its board of directors appointed Charles Gottdiener as president and chief executive officer, succeeding Lisa Hook, who served as president and chief executive officer and a member of the Neustar board of directors since 2010. Hook will continue to serve on the Neustar board.
On October 25, 2018, Neustar announced that it acquired Verisign's security services customer contracts. This includes DDoS protection, DNS firewall, and managed and recursive DNS services customer contracts.[12]