Neustar Blogs

Thriving in the ever-changing communications arena takes utter flexibility, a thirst for knowledge, a willingness to discard outmoded ways of thinking at a moment’s notice, and a genuine desire to make positive contributions to the ongoing discussions that impact an entire industry.

Thought leaders are everywhere at Neustar – and some of our company’s best minds are now blogging actively on a broad range of IP, telephony and Internet-related topics. Click any of the links below to read more.

Neustar will be exhibiting in booth #709 at the COMPTEL PLUS Fall 2010 Convention & EXPO September 12-14, 2010 at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention center in Dallas, Texas. We will have our solutions experts in the booth to discuss how Neustar can help carriers deliver a compelling customer experience by enabling marketplace interoperability in communications, applications services, revenues, performance, and service, as well as partnerships across industries online and mobilizing....READ MORE

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COMPTEL / interoperability / Number Management Solutions / more…

Carrier Services Blog

Performance monitoring serves two critical purposes: to check a web site’s availability and to validate the speed at which pages from the web site download. Site availability is very easy to define; it’s either up or it’s down. There isn’t too much in between. Page download speeds can be a bit trickier to define because there are many different ways to delineate a web page’s load time. This is generally due to the nature of performance monitoring, in which an automated browser makes a request...READ MORE

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actual load time / perceived load time / load time / more…

Webmetrics Performance Blog

Whither IPv6? Introduction IPv6 (Internet Protocol, version 6) is a replacement protocol for IPv4, which we have today. IPv6 was primarily developed to stave off the impending exhaustion of the IPv4 address pool. IPv4 is a 32 bit binary number, represented in decimal form, such as 204.74.108.1 (which happens to correspond to pdns1.ultradns.net). This 32-bit IPv4 address pool provides approximately 4.2 billion unique addresses that may be used by systems on the Internet. In contrast, IPv6 ad...READ MORE

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IPv6 / Managed IPv6 / DNS / more…

DNS Matters

Every organization values innovation, but can they commit to it?Even with commitment, can you make it work?If you're looking for a way to turbocharge development and fan the flames of innovation at your  company, here's something we tried at Neustar Webmetrics that was really successful.But first, a little bit about the Webmetrics team.Performance DNAWebmetrics products are tightly focused on helping our customers achieve the best performance possible. We know that web pages can always l...READ MORE

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innovation / NeuDev / engineering / more…

Webmetrics Performance Blog

An Interview with James Yu, Senior Director and Distinguished Member of Neustar’s Technical Staff James Yu is currently leading Neustar’s groundbreaking work in the mobile applications space. In this interview, he analyzes two avenues for routing mobile traffic – the merits of which are under consideration by the GSM Association, an organization representing the interests of the worldwide mobile communications industry.Can you provide a more expansive definition of the GRX, which Neustar uses...READ MORE

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James Yu / mobile applications / GPRS Roaming eXchange / more…

Advanced Technology Group Blog

I recently gave a webinar on load testing best practices  to ensure holiday success. While the title is specifically geared towards the holiday shopping season, all of the techniques are applicable and relevant to everyday performance and operations activities. In all of our load testing with hundreds of different customers over the years, I've seen my share of high-performing and low-performing websites. The high-performing sites all have generally followed the same practices and metho...READ MORE

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load testing best practices / benchmarks / benchmarking / more…

Webmetrics Performance Blog

With several customers and the alleged perpetrator of the Mariposa botnet now in custody, Neustar’s Rodney Joffe – a key advisor to the Mariposa Working Group – shares his thoughts with Chris Dorobek on Federal News Radio in Washington, D.C.The arrests were the culmination of a coordinated effort between the Mariposa Working Group, the FBI, and law enforcement authorities in Spain and Slovenia. Joffe says that this type of multi-directional information flow should be upheld as a model for how...READ MORE

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Mariposa / Conficker / Mariposa Working Group / more…

DNS Matters

My current non-work project is helping my elderly mother write her life stories. She uses Google docs, which makes it easy for me to rollback changes when she accidentally deletes a story. When she gets stuck working her laptop (which is often), I use a remote desktop application to help her. She is having a great time reconnecting with friends and discovering how much great information is out there. However...She does not read error and dialog boxes, because nothing contained in them makes s...READ MORE

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Mariposa botnet / Butterfly botnet / cybercrime /

DNS Matters

In the words of Neustar Chairman and CEO Jeff Ganek, Neustar exists to “make communications work better,” and cyber security factors more and more heavily into that mission each day. On the heels of the highly successful Intelligence Squared debate on June 8 at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. – for which Neustar was the sole corporate underwriter – the company welcomed Richard Clarke to its office on Pennsylvania Avenue on Friday, July 30.An internationally-recognized expert on homeland sec...READ MORE

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Richard Clarke / cyber war / cyber warfare / more…

Event Recaps

.CO Internet S.A.S. (jointly owned by Neustar and the Colombian company Arcelandia S.A.) launched public registration for the new .CO domain on July 20. The registry handled over 90 thousand registrations in the first 15 minutes. A little over a week after the General Availability launch, the registry now contains over 380,000 domain names. In the Launch Phases leading up to the official public opening of the domain, .CO Internet received over 39,000 domain applications including Grandfatheri...READ MORE

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Latin America / Bogota / UltraDNS network node / more…

DNS Matters