NeuStar UltraDNSOverview

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Company Overview

• Leading global directory infrastructure services provider – SLA guaranteed uptime (99.999%)– Development and management of massively scalable databases– Most reliable DNS service in the world

• NeuStar’s UltraDNS has achieved significant market adoption– Thousands of customers worldwide– Manages 20-million domains– Significant penetration among Fortune 1000– Infrastructure provider to Top Level Domains including .org, .uk, .info

• UltraDNS Acquired by NeuStar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR) in April 2006– Leading Clearinghouse services provider– An essential component of the operations of service providers globally– Customers across the global communications and Internet industry

An industry leader and pioneer in Managed DNS Services

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Global Network

Current Data Centers

• North America– Palo Alto, CA– San Jose, CA– Miami, FL– Chicago, IL– New York, NY– Dallas, TX– Ashburn, VA

• Europe– Luxembourg– London, UK

• Africa– Johannesburg, SA

• Asia– Beijing, China – Hong Kong– Noida, India

• Australia– Sydney

Planned Expansion Canada South America

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Managed DNS Value Proposition

• Industry network availability guaranteed with SLA• Protects essential enterprise intellectual property• Highly resilient to DDoS attacks• No single point of failure

• Enhanced DNS manageability through multiple channels– Advanced web-based user interface– XML-based Application Programming Interface (API)

• Propagate DNS changes rapidly (i.e., in less than 5 minutes)• Geographic and historical DNS query reporting

• Protects and increases customer revenue• Reduces operating costs• Reduces capital expenditures• SLA guarantees infrastructure

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Performance

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Reliability and

Security

Reliability and

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Cost Effective

Cost Effective

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UltraDNS Solutions

Managed External

DNSService

Directory Services Platform

Managed External DNS

Reporting & Statistics

Management & Administration

DNS Shield

DNSTraffic

Management

Managed Internal DNS

Our unique proprietary directory service platform provides the foundation for reliable, secure and cost-effective content delivery network services.

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UltraDNS Product Suite Overview

• Managed DNS Service – Featuring DNS Shield− Industry leading outsourced DNS Service− Significantly enhances network security and reliability (99.999% SLA guarantee)− Web-based GUI or XML API for increased zone manageability

• Managed Internal DNS Service − Addresses internal DNS requirements behind the corporate firewall − Distributed and delegated management interfaces− Complete DHCP functionality

• SiteBacker Service− Mission critical IP monitoring and failover service

• Directional DNS Services− Global traffic load distribution solution

Weighted Load Balancing Service (WLB)− DNS resolution based on load balancing metrics

• Traffic Controller Service− Traffic shaping based on AS number

• Recursive DNS Service− Leverages the UltraDNS network for highest reliability, uptime

and scalability

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Managed DNS Service

Software Proprietary non-BIND software

Service Guarantee Includes SLA with 100% uptime network guarantee

Performance Faster customer connections via routing to closest geographical server

Management Tools Intuitive web-based GUI to centrally administer DNS settings using role-based security

Security Protects from hacker attacks including DDoS

Secured access to UltraDNS nodes and name servers

Scalability Leverages its DNS infrastructure in 5 continents to scale globally

Support 24x7 proactive support

No additional hardware, software, maintenance or training costsNo additional hardware, software, maintenance or training costs

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Intuitive Web-Based Management Portal

• Common Management tool for all UltraDNS

• Detailed zone / query reports

• Mass editing function

• Role-based access control

• Audit log of all changes

• Error checking

• XML-based API management option

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DNS Shield Trusted DNS Infrastructure

• Focus on top 20 Global ISP / network providers− AOL, EarthLink, CableVision, Verio, Yahoo!− Significant ISP and network provider demand− Targeting to cover 75% of end users

• Unrivalled DNS security and performance− UltraDNS customer domains protected from DDoS Attacks − Minimized latency required to support advance services (e.g. VoIP)

• Each partner deploys one or more authoritative UltraDNSprivate nodes− Functionally identical to UltraDNS Public Nodes− Use Anycast IP addressing via BGP− Connected privately to UltraDNS Replication System

• Providers create and maintain Access Control Lists (ACLs)− Restricts access to UltraDNS Nodes and provider’s recursive name servers− Forms a protected environment for DNS query and response traffic

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DNS Shield Architecture

• Private Nodes deployed in Major ISPs / Network providers− UltraDNS zones milliseconds from >100 million Internet users − Inaccessible to public− Accessible only to “trusted” recursive servers

Private Node Deployments UltraDNS Public Nodes Private Node Deployments

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Directional DNS

DNS responses based on Geographic Location

Directional DNS allows enterprises to route DNS responses based on which NeuStar UltraDNS production node answers the query, enabling enterprises with the ability to provide different responses based on the geographic location of the originator.

Query response “10.10.10.20” to “myweb.com” from North American NeuStar UltraDNS node

Query response “10.10.10.20” to “myweb.com” from European NeuStar UltraDNS node

Query from Europe for “myweb.com” routed to closest topological NeuStar UltraDNS node

routed to closesttopological NeuStar UltraDNS node

Query from North America for “myweb.com” routed to closest

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AS-Based Directional DNS DNS responses based on the source ASN of the query

• AS-Based Routing allows customers to route DNSresponses based onoriginating network

• Routing customizationconfigured throughmanagement portal

• Recent application:– Level 3 / Cogent Dispute– Network Cost Efficiencies

UltraDNS Global DNS Network

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SiteBacker

SiteBacker service provides enhanced real-time monitoring, failover, and traffic control capabilities.

UltraDNS

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Managed Internal DNS Services

• Unrivaled performance and scalability for Enterprise’s internal DNS environment− Leverages NeuStar UltraDNS industry-leading global DNS network

• Powerful set of DNS / DHCP management tools− Simplifies DNS / DHCP administration− Significantly reduces DNS configuration errors

• Flexible role-based access control− Permits both centralized control of an Enterprise’s global DNS environment and

delegation to local IT administrators

• Comprehensive audit logs − Maintains a complete audit trail of all changes across the Enterprise’s DNS / DHCP

environment

• Non-BIND solution − Avoids the security vulnerabilities inherent even with the very latest release of BIND

• Comprehensive IP Address Management functionality

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Managed Internal DNS Architecture

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Reporting

• Advanced Reporting― In addition to standard reports supplied by UltraDNS, Advanced Reporting allows you to analyze DNS

traffic and patterns to better utilize your network resources

• XML-API― Standard API to insert, modify or delete data from customer-specific applications

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Select Corporate Customers

Sony Music

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Select Infrastructure Customers

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Testimonials

“After extensive testing of the UltraDNS network and directory platform, we found that the Managed DNS

Service met our stringent operational and business requirements

for this critical infrastructure component.

Amazon continually seeks to improve the customer shopping experience, and with UltraDNS we are able

to ensure that our customers have unparalleled speed and

reliability in DNS resolution for Amazon Web sites.”

Chris PinkhamVP Systems & Network Engineering

"By adopting the UltraDNS Managed DNS Service, we have been able to leverage a larger network footprint

with no additional capital expenditure.

Utilizing the scalable UltraDNS managed service enables us to outsource our DNS requirements while providing a more robust level of service to our user

community."

Lesley Cowley Managing Director

“Our users rely on Forbes.com for timely, relevant content and

our advertisers expect quantifiable exposure to our readers,

the world’s business leaders.

A brand like ours cannot afford downtime due to DNS errors

or denial of service attacks. Forbes.com is a trusted resource

for business information on the Web and NeuStar UltraDNS

helps us insure the integrity of that value proposition”

Michael Smith

VP and General Manager

"Oracle's worldwide demands require literally millions of onlinetransactions to be accomplished successfully every day and NeuStar UltraDNS‘s ability to deploy DNS globally as well as

to guarantee 100 percent uptime reliability was critical to our decision.

Quality of service grows in importance as Internet usage increases, and NeuStar’s UltraDNS offers a DNS service that simply

makes the Internet work better by scaling up as the needs of our worldwide customer base grow.“

Charles R. Hoynowski

Global DNS Services Manager