Press Releases

NO-IP ADDS PRIVATE REGISTRATION TO ITS SERVICE LINEUP

No-IP™ is proud to announce the official release of private registration. The service can be added to domain purchases, transfers or domains that currently reside with No-IP.com.

Private registration allows a user to mask their contact information that is displayed in the public WHOIS database. This value added service protects you from spammers, telemarketers, identity thieves, stalkers and others who “mine” the public WHOIS database.

“Private registration is an important service for clients requiring privacy in their online endeavors,” said Dan Durrer, Chief Technology officer. “It is also important to any person concerned with having elements of their identity available in a public database.”

Adding private registration to your domain is simple. If purchasing a new domain or transferring an existing domain select the “enable private registration” option at checkout. To add it to a domain that is already with No-IP you can do so through the domain registration manager.

To find out more about the private registration service, visit http://www.no-ip.com/why-private-reg.php

About No-IP™
No-IP™, a subsidiary of Vitalwerks Internet Solutions, LLC, is a leading dynamic DNS and online services provider dedicated to helping companies and home users manage their Internet presence. No-IP™ offers a wide selection of online services, including domain registration, email solutions, server monitoring, and managed DNS to over three million users worldwide.

Today No-IP announces the availability of DNS text record support and SPF record creation wizard. Text record support is necessary for the implementation of the email sending authentication scheme known as Sender Policy Framework (SPF).

The current SMTP standard allows anyone to send email with a forged email address. SPF is used to help identify forged senders that are used by many viruses, worms, and spam. SMTP servers that support SPF can easily detect forged senders and flag or delete messages from spoofed senders. In turn drastically reducing or completely eliminating worm viruses and spam that are sent through email on infected machines.

An SPF record describes to a mail server which mail servers are allowed to send email for a particular domain name. SPF records are simply a string of text published in a DNS TXT record. When an email is sent to an SPF enabled mail server it checks the SPF record to make sure that the email is coming from one of the mail servers that is authorized to send email for the particular domain.

Thousands of email providers and companies including Hotmail, AOL, and Google have begun publishing SPF records and have built SPF support in their spam filters. Microsoft has announced that they will begin filtering email that does not support SPF starting Oct 1st, 2004 and is urging ISP’s to begin publishing SPF records.

No-IP.com feels this solution has great potential to stop the forgery of email and reduce spam and the propagation of viruses. In efforts to get all of our customers to publish SPF records No-IP has now added text record support and an easy to use SPF record wizard, which helps administrators easily create and modify their SPF records.

“SPF should be a boon to all legitimate mail providers,” said Joel Rasmus, Chief Operating Officer. “We are excited about the possibilities of better service for our customers and more reliable interactions with our peers.”

The SPF wizard and text record support is immediately available to all No-IP Enhanced and No-IP Plus customers.

About No-IP™
No-IP™, a subsidiary of Vitalwerks Internet Solutions, LLC, is a leading dynamic DNS and online services provider dedicated to helping companies and home users manage their Internet presence. No-IP™ offers a wide selection of online services, including domain registration, email solutions, server monitoring, and managed DNS to over three million users worldwide.

NO-IP.COM ADDS SITE IN LONDON, ENGLAND

Las Vegas, NV, June 20, 2004 – No-IP.com today announces the addition of its fifth geographically diverse name server located in London, England. The addition of the London site expands No-IP.com’s global DNS network while providing faster DNS lookups to European customers.

By adding the London location No-IP.com is able to provide a more diverse global DNS network, ensuring responsive name service is provided in the case of a network outage at any one location.

A large majority of DNS servers on the Internet route requests to the closest name server.
Because of this No-IP.com is now able to provide faster DNS lookups to European users and their customers. This in turn increases responsiveness of web services using No-IP.com’s global DNS network.

In addition to No-IP.com’s London site, name servers are operated in New York, San Diego, San Antonio and Chicago. All sites are strategically placed at core points on the Internet with different carriers at tier-1 datacenters to insure 100% uptime.

For more information about No-IP.com’s network and technology go to:

http://www.no-ip.com/company/page/tech

About No-IP™
No-IP™, a subsidiary of Vitalwerks Internet Solutions, LLC, is a leading dynamic DNS and online services provider dedicated to helping companies and home users manage their Internet presence. No-IP™ offers a wide selection of online services, including domain registration, email solutions, server monitoring, and managed DNS to over three million users worldwide.

NO-IP.COM RELEASES DYNAMIC UPDATE PROTOCOL V2.1

Today No-IP announces the public release of the No-IP Dynamic Update Protocol v2.1. Now router manufacturers and software vendors can integrate No-IP’s rock solid dynamic DNS service into their products adding substantial value to their product and leveraging No- IP’s growing user base of over 2 million worldwide.

With Dynamic DNS the trouble of accessing a computer or network attached to the Internet via a dynamically assigned IP address becomes a thing of the past. Dynamic DNS solves this problem by updating DNS records in seconds after an IP address change is detected and insures that an easy to remember static domain name is always in sync with the end users current IP address. Users then have endless opportunities to take full advantage of their Internet connection including running a website, hosting a game server, aiding remote administration, managing security cameras and endless other client-server applications.

Adding No-IP support to your product is simple. With No-IP’s easy to understand HTTP based update protocol, router manufactures and software vendors can add support to their product in no time. Additionally, incorporate our affiliate program and earn residual income by referring customers to No-IP.

“The new protocol specifications bring together all the features that have been available to the No-IP supported update clients.” Said Dan Durrer, Chief Technology Officer, “The new documentation makes the system easy to understand and quick to implement.”

A compatibility update protocol is also available which implements a protocol commonly used by other providers. This is convenient for vendors who already support other dynamic DNS providers. Adding support under the compatibility protocol may be as simple as making your software aware of the No-IP update server.

To read more about the update protocol specifications and design guidelines please visit http://www.no-ip.com/integrate/

About No-IP™
No-IP™, a subsidiary of Vitalwerks Internet Solutions, LLC, is a leading dynamic DNS and online services provider dedicated to helping companies and home users manage their Internet presence. No-IP™ offers a wide selection of online services, including domain registration, email solutions, server monitoring, and managed DNS to over three million users worldwide.

NO-IP.COM INTRODUCES BASIC AND ADVANCED SERVER MONITORING

Las Vegas, NV, February 6, 2004 — No-IP.com today announces the introduction of No-IP Monitoring. No-IP Monitoring provides site monitoring, notification and failover to ensure high-availability of your mission critical internet based services.

No-IP’s monitoring services will provide you with the piece of mind that your sites are up and running. Services are monitored 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. When a configured service starts to produce a warning or goes down, our monitoring network will failover your site to an alternate IP address or offline page and send out a notification to any email addressable device.

“In all the jobs I have had, there has always been that late night phone call from your boss saying he can’t get to the site, or something is down. With No-IP.com’s monitoring service you can avoid these situations by being notified of a problem as soon as they occur. By catching and dealing with the problem when it happens, it not only makes you look good, but makes your company look good.” explained Kurt von dem Bussche, Senior Network Engineer at No-IP.com.

Each monitored site is checked from multiple monitoring locations located across the country to insure that your site is in fact down. Failover is performed using No-IP’s industry proven dynamic DNS system to insure the smallest amount of downtime.

For more information visit:
http://www.no-ip.com/services/monitoring/

About No-IP™
No-IP™, a subsidiary of Vitalwerks Internet Solutions, LLC, is a leading dynamic DNS and online services provider dedicated to helping companies and home users manage their Internet presence. No-IP™ offers a wide selection of online services, including domain registration, email solutions, server monitoring, and managed DNS to over three million users worldwide.

NO-IP ANNOUNCES AFFILIATE PROGRAM

Las Vegas, NV, September 22, 2003 — No-IP.com launches affiliate program.

The affiliate program works by linking to our site with a special URL that contains your affiliate code. When your users click on that link a cookie is stored on their machine for 30 days. So whether the user signs up and buys something that day, or if that users decides to come back in a few weeks to sign up and purchase, you still get credit for the sale!

The affiliate system includes an Affiliate Dashboard. Here you will be able to view your sales and commission reports, traffic statistics and download banners and html links to add to your website.

“It’s FREE to join and you can make substantial revenue with our generous 15% commission payout!” said Dan Durrer, Chief Technology Officer.

For more information visit: http://www.no-ip.com/affiliate-signup.php.

To become an affiliate you must first be a member of No-IP.com

Should you have any questions or comments about the affiliate program please contact affiliates@no-ip.com

About No-IP™
No-IP™, a subsidiary of Vitalwerks Internet Solutions, LLC, is a leading dynamic DNS and online services provider dedicated to helping companies and home users manage their Internet presence. No-IP™ offers a wide selection of online services, including domain registration, email solutions, server monitoring, and managed DNS to over three million users worldwide.

NO-IP.COM ADDS ALTERNATE-PORT SMTP TO ITS MAIL SERVICE LINEUP

Las Vegas, NV, August 27, 2003 — No-IP.com today launches Alternate-Port SMTP mail service.

Internet service providers are making their networks more and more restrictive in order to reduce the amount of unsolicited email that travels through their networks. In response to this No-IP.com is offering a new service which allows its customers to send email through No-IP’s mail servers on a non-standard port, getting around ISPs who block their users from sending email through a third party server on port 25.

“There are legitimate reasons for a home user to send email from their own server. Not everyone is a spammer. And we have taken precautions to avoid abuse of our new service.” explained Joel Rasmus, Chief Operating Officer

“We get hundreds of support requests asking how come I can’t send email from my server, now instead of telling them to find a new ISP, we can help them out” said Adam LaForge, Manager of Technical Support

No-IP.com’s Alternate-Port SMTP service compliments its other mail offerings, particularly the popular Mail Reflector service. The combination of Mail Reflector and Alternate-port SMTP allow a home user to still run a complete mail server regardless of the restriction imposed by their ISP.

For more information visit:

http://www.no-ip.com/services/managed_mail/outbound_port_25_unblock.html

About No-IP™
No-IP™, a subsidiary of Vitalwerks Internet Solutions, LLC, is a leading dynamic DNS and online services provider dedicated to helping companies and home users manage their Internet presence. No-IP™ offers a wide selection of online services, including domain registration, email solutions, server monitoring, and managed DNS to over three million users worldwide.

NO-IP.COM UNVEILS NEW WEBSITE AND CORPORATE IDENTITY

Las Vegas, NV, June 26, 2003 — No-IP.com today announced the unveiling of the company’s new website. The new site is designed to streamline the use of our services putting everything from support to account management in one easy to use interface.

The new site features domain transfers, expanded, searchable support documentation, as well as an attractive easy to use interface. Gone is the clutter of every-option-on-one-page: now information is presented as it is pertinent.

“The new look puts our web identity on par with the quality of service we have always been providing.” says Dan Durrer, Chief Technology Officer.

View the new website at http://www.no-ip.com

About No-IP™
No-IP™, a subsidiary of Vitalwerks Internet Solutions, LLC, is a leading dynamic DNS and online services provider dedicated to helping companies and home users manage their Internet presence. No-IP™ offers a wide selection of online services, including domain registration, email solutions, server monitoring, and managed DNS to over three million users worldwide.

NO-IP.COM ADDS VIRUS AND SPAM PROTECTION TO POP3 MAIL

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, January 29 — No-IP.com announced today the addition
of virus and spam protection to the No-IP POP Mail service.

“Our spam filter detects and flags “junk” e-mail or “spam” for each users mailbox, protecting workers from unwanted distractions and interruptions.” said David Jonas, mail administrator for No-IP.com. “With the ever-increasing amount of unsolicited e-mail arriving daily, protection is an important means of saving time and staying focused on important work at hand. Additionally, our virus filter detects and eliminates viruses before they enter your network.”

Key Features of the Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus include:

• Whitelists for each account
• Blacklists for each account
• SPAM threshold settings for each account

Visit http://www.no-ip.com today for more information.

About No-IP™
No-IP™, a subsidiary of Vitalwerks Internet Solutions, LLC, is a leading dynamic DNS and online services provider dedicated to helping companies and home users manage their Internet presence. No-IP™ offers a wide selection of online services, including domain registration, email solutions, server monitoring, and managed DNS to over three million users worldwide.