BNET Industries

Last Fiscal Year Sales:$17.5M
  • Private
  • US
Dow Jones Description

Nominum?s history is rooted in the origins and growth of the Internet. The company brings together individuals who have played key roles in the development of essential Internet protocols like DNS and DHCP. David Conrad founded Nominum in 1999 to develop BIND9 and ISC DHCP3 for the Internet Software Consortium (ISC), leveraging the expertise of Paul Mockapetris, inventor of DNS, and Ted Lemon, author of the first widely-used DHCP implementation. The company provided training, consulting and commercial-grade support for these open source implementations. In 2000, Nominum offered a DNS hosting service called Global Name Service, which hosted thousands of enterprise customers as well as several top-level domains. To deliver the superior performance and availability required for high volume service, Nominum wrote its own DNS implementation, not based on BIND and dedicated solely to the authoritative name server function. Using this DNS server, Global Name Service was able to provide 100% availability, with no downtime in a 12-month period. Nominum saw that the continued expansion of the IP address infrastructure to support new uses and technologies would require a new generation of DNS and DHCP solutions. In 2002 Nominum sold its managed service business to concentrate fully on developing and supporting these next generation solutions. Today service providers, carriers and enterprises around the globe rely on Nominum ...

President and Chief Operating Officer
Tom Tovar
Number of Employees 34
Contact Information

2000 Seaport Blvd Ste 400

Redwood City, California 94063

www.nominum.com

1 650 381 6000

NAICS Code Computer and Software Stores: 443120

Recent Events

  • Nominum Launches SKYE Cloud Services for DNS

    9/23/09 - Product Announcement - View Story

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Decision Makers

Name (plus bio) Position
Tom Tovar President and Chief Operating Officer
Abraham Ayat Vice President Worldwide Sales & Channels, Nominum
Tom Newell Vice President, Defense Programs
Vivian Neou Vice President
Hansen Chang
Paul Vixie Software Architect
Stephen Stuart
Venky Ganesan member

Board of Directors

Name (plus bio) Position
Paul Mockapetris Nominum's Chairman and Chief Scientist
David J. Cowan Board Member
Globespan Venky Ganesan Board of Directors
Ken Gullicksen board member
Steve Baloff Active Board Member

As Nominum's President and Chief Operating Officer, Tom Tovar brings a proven track record of executing strategic partnerships, alliances, mergers and acquisitions at leading network and security companies and major Silicon Valley law firms. Tom comes to this role after serving as Nominum's Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Business Development. In this position, he was responsible for overseeing the company's sales revenues and defining and executing worldwide partnership and alliance initiatives. Before joining Nominum, Tom was vice president in charge of corporate development at NetScreen Technologies, where he led NetScreen's alliances, strategic partnering and M&A activities. He has also served as NetScreen's vice president of legal affairs. Before NetScreen, as a lawyer at Cooley Godward LLP, Tom led private financings, IPOs, strategic alliance and licensing transactions as well as merger and acquisition efforts for numerous successful technology companies. He holds B.B.A. in finance from the University of Houston and a J.D. from Stanford University.

Organization Position Status
Nominum, Inc. President and Chief Operating Officer Current
Cooley Godward Llp Lawyer Current
NetScreen Technologies Vice President Former
Stanford University J.D. Former
The University of Houston B.B.A. In Finance Former

Organization Position Status
Nominum, Inc. Nominum's Chairman and Chief Scientist Current
Von Publishing LLC Chairman and Chief Scientist, Nominum Interview Current
Mongonet Advisor Current
Staccato Communications, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Mongonet Board of Directors Current
The Software Company, Inc. Cto Former
Ietf Chair Former
Interactive Services Inc. Director Former
University of California, Irvine Ph.D. In Information and Computer Science Former
Massachusetts Institute of Technology BS degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering Former

Organization Position Status
Nominum, Inc. Vice President Worldwide Sales & Channels, Nominum Current

Organization Position Status
Nominum, Inc. Vice President, Defense Programs Current
Law, Snakard & Gambill, P.C. Former
The University of Texas Master of Library and Information Science with a systems management emphasis Former
University of California, Riverside bachelor's degree Former

Vivian Neou is Nominum's Vice President of Product Engineering and Operations. In this role, Vivian manages Nominum's day-to-day product development, technical operations, and Nominum's professional services and information systems organizations. Prior to joining Nominum, Vivian managed special projects for the Foothill-De Anza Community College District, setting up the Advanced Technology Center at DeAnza College and the web site for the Community Colleges for Innovative Technology Transfer. During 12 years at SRI International, Vivian served as the Manager of Information Services for the Network Information Center Project, the predecessor of the current InterNIC. As Manager of Information Services, Vivian supervised all aspects of the NIC Project, including user and domain registration. Vivian is the author of several reference books, including ActiveX Controls To Go, HTML 4.0 CD with JavaScript, Internet CD, and Internet Mailing List Navigator for Windows. She also coauthored HTML CD for Windows, HTML CD with JavaScript for Macintosh, and HTML 3.2 CD with JavaScript for Windows 95.

Organization Position Status
Nominum, Inc. Vice President Current

Organization Position Status
Fortinet, Inc. Current
Nominum, Inc. Current
Cipher Trust, Inc. vice president of Asia, Pacific Former
International Business Machines Corporation General Manager Former
Wang Laboratories Former
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer S cience Former

Paul Vixie has been contributing to Internet protocols and UNIX systems as a protocol designer and software architect since 1980. Early in his career, he developed and introduced sends, proxynet, rtty, cron and other lesser-known tools. Today, Paul is considered the primary modern author and technical architect of BINDv8 the Berkeley Internet Name Domain Version 8, the open source reference implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS). He formed the Internet Software Consortium (ISC) in 1994, and now acts as Chairman of its Board of Directors. The ISC reflects Paul's commitment to developing and maintaining production quality open source reference implementations of core Internet protocols. More recently, Paul cofounded MAPS LLC (Mail Abuse Prevention System), a California nonprofit company established in 1998 with the goal of hosting the RBL (Realtime Blackhole List) and stopping the Internet's email system from being abused by spammers. Vixie is currently the Chief Technology Officer of Metromedia Fiber Network Inc (MFNX.O). Along with Frederick Avolio, Paul co-wrote "Sendmail: Theory and Practice" (Digital Press, 1995). He has authored or co-authored several RFCs, including a Best Current Practice document on "Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA Delegation" (BCP 20). He is also responsible for overseeing the operation of F.root-servers.net, one of the thirteen Internet root domain name servers.

Organization Position Status
Nominum, Inc. Software Architect Current
North American IPV6 Technology Conference Current
Paix Founder Former
Maps.Com Co-Founder Former
Isc, Inc. Former
Rbl, Inc. Former

Organization Position Status
Nominum, Inc. Current
Isc, Inc. Former
Digital Equipment Corporation Former
FINRA Former

Organization Position Status
Bessemer Venture Partners General Partner Current
Determina, Inc. Chairman Current
NextMedium, Inc. Board Member Current
Keynote Systems, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Elemental Security, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Nominum, Inc. Board Member Current
ViryaNet, Ltd. Investor Current
Qualys, Inc. Investor Current
Ciena Corporation Investor Current
Determina, Inc. Investor Current
Register.com, Inc. Investor Current
Finjan Software, Ltd. Investor Current
Nominum, Inc. Investor Current
MotherNature.com, Inc. Investor Current
Delivery Agent, Inc. Investor Current
Elemental Security, Inc. Investor Current
Tumbleweed, Inc. Investor Current
Counterpane Internet Security, Inc. Investor Current
VeriSign, Inc. Investor Current
Visto Corporation Investor Current
Tripwire, Inc. Investor Current
eEye Digital Security Investor Current
NextMedium, Inc. Investor Current
Vimo, Inc Investor Current
Netli, Inc. Investor Current
Blue Nile, Inc. Investor Current
Postini, Inc. Investor Current
VeriSign, Inc. CFO Former
VeriSign, Inc. cofounded Former
Keys School Computer Science Teacher Former
VeriSign, Inc. Chairman Former
Netli, Inc. Board Member Former
Worldtalk Corporation Investor Former
Cyota.com Inc. Investor Former
PSINet, Inc. Investor Former
ValiCert, Inc. Investor Former
Harvard University M.B.A. Degree Former
Harvard University A.B. Degree In Mathematics Former

Organization Position Status
Junit Factory Current
Agitar Software, Inc. Current
Sendia Corporation Board of Directors Current
Steelwedge, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Odesk Corporation Board of Directors Current
Nominum, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Exeros, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Trigo Technologies, Inc. Founder Former
McKinsey & Company, Inc. Former
Reed College Degrees In Computer Science Former

Ken is a Partner at Morgenthaler Ventures. Ken joined Morgenthaler in 2001 and currently serves on the boards of imeem, Voltage Security, Digital Railroad, Nominum and Danal Corp. He was either a Series-A lead or co-lead investor in all of the above companies. Ken has 18 years of experience in Silicon Valley's high-technology industry as CEO, business strategist, marketing/engineering director and venture capitalist. Ken was founding CEO of FiberStreet, Inc., a gigabit network service provider. He previously served as Director of Business Development for Nortel Networks. Ken held a number of market development and engineering roles at Hitachi-Raychem Display Systems and Sun Microsystems. Ken has a BS in electrical engineering from San Jose State University, San Jose, California, and MBA from Stanford University, and is based in Menlo Park.

Organization Position Status
Morgenthaler Current
Digital Railroad, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Blist, Inc. Director Current
Snocap, Inc. Board Member Current
Voltage Security, Inc. Board Member Current
Nominum, Inc. board member Current
Nortel Networks Corporation Director of Business Development Former
Inkra Networks Corporation Voltage Security Former
Stanford University M.B.A. Former
California Inc BS In Electrical Engineering Former
San Jose State University B.S. in Electrical Engineering Former

Organization Position Status
Compassoft, Inc. General Partner, Advanced Technology Ventures Current
Advanced Technology Ventures, Inc. General Partner Current
Compassoft, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Cenzic, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Liquid Engines, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Host Analytics, Inc. Active Board Member Current
Tripwire, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Nominum, Inc. Active Board Member Current
Wildtangent, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Integrated Media Measurement Inc. Director Current
Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. Former
ViryaNet, Ltd. Former
Siebel Systems, Inc. Former
Stanford Graduate School of Business MBA Former
Harvard University B.A. Former
Harvard College BA In Economics Former

As a Managing Director of Globespan, Venky sources new investment opportunities, evaluates and negotiates investments, and serves on the boards of portfolio companies. Based in Palo Alto, he focuses on investments in Software and Internet/Infrastructure start-ups. Venky, a successful entrepreneur himself, shares his intense focus on results, strategic market view, and technical expertise to help the firm's portfolio companies achieve market leadership. Venky serves on the boards of Agitar, Amobee, Exeros, Jajah, Market Live, Nominum, oDesk, Palo Alto Networks, Plaxo, and Strongmail. Venky previously served on the board of Sendia (acquired by Salesforce.com). Prior to Globespan, Venky served as Vice President of JAFCO Ventures. While at JAFCO, Venky co-founded Trigo Technologies, Inc. where he later served as Chief Operating Officer. He envisioned the idea behind Trigo's middleware as an Associate in the Boston office of JAFCO Ventures. He and the founding team then incubated the software company in JAFCO's Palo Alto office. Venky helped to build Trigo into the market leader in the product information management arena. The company was acquired by IBM resulting in a substantial return for all investors. Venky also previously worked at McKinsey & Co., in the firm's Los Angeles and Johannesberg offices.

Organization Position Status
Globespan Capital Partners Managing Director Current
Plaxo, Inc. Managing Director, Globespan Capital Partners Current
Steelwedge, Inc. member Current
Nominum, Inc. member Current
California Institute of Technology member Current
The IndUS Entrepreneurs charter member Current
Plaxo, Inc. member Current
Exeros, Inc. member Current
Odesk Corporation member Current
Amobee Inc. Board of Directors Current
Steelwedge, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Exeros, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Jajah Inc. Board of Directors Current
Strongmail Systems, Inc. Director Current
Palo Alto Networks, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Market Live Board of Directors Current
Nominum, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Trigo Technologies, Inc. Chief Operating Officer Former
Jafco America Ventures, Inc. Vice President Former
Trigo Technologies, Inc. Founder Former
Microsoft Corporation program manager Former
Trigo Technologies, Inc. co-founded Former
McKinsey & Company, Inc. NA Former
Sendia Corporation member Former
Sendia Corporation Board of Directors Former
Reed College Degrees In Computer Science Former
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