UltraDNS status

[Steve Atkins]

(Apologies for a possibly duplicate post)

In article <9i8e46$nvl at pub3.rc.vix.com>, giselle_laure at hotmail.com says...
>The following might be instructive for anyone who wonders exactly what
>is going on with UltraDNS.  Clearly any organization can and
>frequently does change their contact information, but this begs the
>question, "Just exactly who is running/providing service for
>UltraDNS?"

It would be instructive if it was correct. However, the data below is either
scrambled or (more likely) tucows has database/whois server problems.

I'm not a contact for ultradns.com nor for ultradns.net, nor have I ever
been.

I *do* own ultradns.org, which is also registered via tucows. It's likely
something in the opensrs whois database got confused.

I've seen whois database scrambling happen a fair amount - I'm the author
of SamSpade, the whois client you use, and get a fair few bug reports that
turn out to be database problems with one registrar or another.

Mr Guglielmis account of UltraDNS' status is correct as I understand it.

Cheers,
  Steve

>giz
>
>
>=====================================================
>I did this today (see below for yesterday's results):
>=====================================================
>
>07/07/01 16:49:37 whois ultradns.com
>.com is a domain of USA & International Commercial
>Searches for .com can be run at http://www.crsnic.net/
>
>whois -h whois.crsnic.net ultradns.com ...
>Redirecting to TUCOWS, INC.
>
>whois -h whois.opensrs.net ultradns.com ...
>Registrant:
> UltraDNS Corporation
> 800 N. San Mateo Drive
> San Mateo, CA 94401
> US
>
> Domain Name: ULTRADNS.COM
> 
> Administrative Contact:
>    Registration, Domain  domreg at ultradns.net <<---== Note this...
>    800 N. San Mateo Drive
>    San Mateo, CA 94401
>    US
>    650-227-2600
>
> Technical Contact:
>    Registration, Domain  domadmin at ultradns.net <<---== and this...
>    800 N. San Mateo Drive
>    San Mateo, CA 94401
>    US
>    650-227-2600
>
> Billing Contact:
>    Billing, Domain  dombill at ultradns.net <<---== and this!!
>    800 N. San Mateo Drive
>    San Mateo, CA 94401
>    US
>    650-227-2600
>
>
> Record last updated on 07-Jul-2001.
> Record expires on 28-Jun-2002.
> Record Created on 29-Jun-1998.
>
> Domain servers in listed order:
>    UDNS1.ULTRADNS.NET   204.69.234.1
>    UDNS2.ULTRADNS.NET   204.74.101.1
>
>
>=================================================
>Here are the results from a whois done yesterday:
>=================================================
>
>07/02/01 14:39:12 whois ultradns.com
>.com is a domain of USA & International Commercial
>Searches for .com can be run at http://www.crsnic.net/
>
>whois -h whois.crsnic.net ultradns.com ...
>Redirecting to TUCOWS, INC.
>
>whois -h whois.opensrs.net ultradns.com ...
>Registrant:
> UltraDNS Corporation
> 800 N. San Mateo Drive
> San Mateo, CA 94401
> US
>
> Domain Name: ULTRADNS.COM
> 
> Administrative Contact:
>    Registration, Domain  steve at blighty.com <<---== Looky here...
>    800 N. San Mateo Drive
>    San Mateo, CA 94401
>    US
>    650-227-2600
>
> Technical Contact:
>    Registration, Domain  steve at blighty.com <<---== and here...
>    800 N. San Mateo Drive
>    San Mateo, CA 94401
>    US
>    650-227-2600
>
> Billing Contact:
>    Billing, Domain  steve at blighty.com <<---== and here!!
>    800 N. San Mateo Drive
>    San Mateo, CA 94401
>    US
>    650-227-2600
>
>
> Record last updated on 16-May-2001.
> Record expires on 28-Jun-2002.
> Record Created on 29-Jun-1998.
>
> Domain servers in listed order:
>    UDNS1.ULTRADNS.NET   204.69.234.1
>    UDNS2.ULTRADNS.NET   204.74.101.1
>
>
>Forrest Aldrich <forrie at navipath.com> wrote in message
>news:<9i57q6$aso at pub3.rc.vix.com>...
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I inquired to UltraDNS, in response to some rumors that I had read here on 
>> the list about their being defunct.  I received this response, and they 
>> politely requested that I post it to the list to clarify things.
>> 
>> I thought this was appropriate.  If it's not, accept my apologies.  (I have 
>> no relationship with this company; I'm just a curious third-party)
>> 
>> 
>> Forrest
>> 
>> ===============================================
>> 
>> From: "Michael Guglielmi" <mikeg at ultradns.com>
>> To: <forrie at forrie.com>
>> Subject: UltraDNS - Follow-up
>> Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 09:56:17 -0700
>> Message-ID: <LPBBIHHKOGHJHGOFDDCPCELICLAA.mikeg at ultradns.com>
>> MIME-Version: 1.0
>> Content-Type: text/plain;
>>          charset="iso-8859-1"
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>> X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
>> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
>> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
>> Importance: Normal
>> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300
>> X-UID: 12224
>> 
>> Hello Forrest:
>> 
>> This couldn't be further from the truth.  In fact, I can tell you with great
>> confidence that we are in better shape now than we have ever been.  I assume
>> you are referring to news back in May when we announced a stream-lining
>> event?  To be honest with you, our DNS platform has reached a mature stage
>> and we could no longer justify keeping the large development and operations
>> teams in place.  In fact, we have been running our network in a production
>> environment for 2 years now.  Like many companies, we hired aggressively
>> last year in expectation of a continuing boom that would justify the need
>> for additional head-count.  And when reality sets in it makes sense to
>> stream-line if you can maintain the same QoS to your customers that they
>> have grown to expect.  From a financial perspective we are in great shape
>> and have over 2 years of operating cash left in the bank.  We recently
>> (January 2001) closed our Series B round with Reuters, Vantage Point Venture
>> Partners, and New Enterprise Associates.  To be more direct, we did a very
>> fiscally responsible thing by acting the way we did to stream-line and
>> conserve our cash burn.  And on top of that, even after the press came out
>> we still have had major customer announcements from companies like MSN
>> Hotmail and, soon to be publicly released, a second Fortune 200 company.
>> 
>> May I ask where you heard this rumor from?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Michael Guglielmi
>
>

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