One of three regional Internet registries recently announced an agreement to let Nominum manage parts of its domain name services.

The Redwood City-based company, which develops and supports Internet naming and address management solutions, got he nod this week from the America Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) to supply ARIN's portion of the IN-ADDR.ARPA domain delegations.

The IN-ADDR.ARPA domain makes inverse address (address-to-name) domain lookups possible. Although not as frequently used as name-to-address, inverse address lookups are crucial to the smooth operation of the Internet.

Nominum's role will be to outsource its proprietary Global Name Service (GNS) to give ARIN management of IP address space.

"The IN-ADDR.ARPA domain requires a stable, reliable infrastructure to support it. Nominum's GNS will enhance our ability to provide the best possible service to the Internet community" says ARIN president and CEO Ray Plzak.

GNS is based on a multi-site, multi-server, multi-networked infrastructure that Nominum says is designed to be reliable, fault-tolerant and as user-friendly DNS as possible. Backbone GNS locations house multiple servers on different hardware and operating system platforms in order to maximize redundancy and security.

The company says its GNS was a good choice for ARIN because Nominum supports and writes the DNS implementation known as Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) as well as Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), a widely used Open Source software for the automated assignment of IP addresses.

ARIN is a non-profit organization established for the purpose of administration and registration of Internet Protocol (IP) numbers for North America, South America, the Caribbean and the southern portions of Africa.

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