NeuStar

Neustar, Inc.

Type	Public
Traded as	NYSE: NSR
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	Sterling, Virginia, U.S. (1998 (1998))
Headquarters	Sterling, Virginia
Revenue	US$ 526,800,000 (2010)
Operating income	US$ 175,521,000 (2010)
Net income	US$ 106,207,000 (2010)
Total assets	US$ 733,864,000 (2010)
Total equity	US$ 596,112,000 (2010)
Employees	1040 (March 17, 2010)
Website	Neustar.biz
References: [1]

Neustar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR) is a provider of clearinghouse and directory services to the global communications and Internet industries.

History

Neustar was incorporated in Delaware in 1998. It started as a business unit within Lockheed Martin Corporation. It spun off to keep the neutrality that was essential to its original core contract with the nation's telecommunications providers.

Business overview

Neustar provides technology services upon which its carrier and enterprise customers rely to manage a range of technical and operating requirements. These services include:

Within the United States and Canada, Neustar operates the authoritative directories that manage virtually all telephone area codes and numbers, and enables the routing of calls among thousands of competing Communications Service Providers (CSPs). All telecommunications service providers (TSPs) that offer telecommunications services to the public at large must access the Neustar clearinghouse to properly route virtually all of their customers’ calls. Also, Neustar provides clearinghouse services to emerging CSPs, including Internet service providers (ISPs), mobile network operators, cable television operators, and voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) service providers.^{[citation needed]}

Neustar offers internal and external managed DNS services that play a key role in directing and managing traffic on the Internet, manages the authoritative directories for the .us and .biz Internet domains, and acts as the worldwide "registry gateway" for China's .cn and Taiwan's .tw Internet domains outside of these two countries.^[2] Neustar also provides back end registry services for .co Top Level Domain. Neustar manages a collection of these directories that maintain addresses to direct, prioritize and manage Internet traffic, and find and resolve Internet queries and top-level domains on behalf of its enterprise customers. Neustar serves as the provider of registry services and manages directories of similar resources, or addresses, that its customers use for access and connectivity.

Neustar also operates the authoritative directory for U.S. Common Short Codes, part of the short messaging service (SMS) relied upon by the U.S. wireless industry, and provides solutions used by mobile network operators to enable mobile instant messaging for their end users.

Neustar provides the Digital Rights Locker for the consortium of Hollywood studios, consumer electronics manufacturers and retailers behind the UltraViolet digital content scheme to provide consumers with "buy once, play anywhere" capabilities. Neustar is also working with the Open Mobile Video Coalition(OMVC) to manage the Mobile DTV Trust Authority (MDTV). The MDTV will issue a hierarchy of digital certificates and provide secure, efficient and easy-to-use on-line systems to manage the full lifecycle of Mobile DTV trust relationships from registration to ordering, delivery, authentication, status checking and revocation.

Customers

Neustar serves traditional providers of communications, including local exchange carriers (LECs), competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs), wireless service providers, and long distance carriers. The company also serves emerging communication service providers (CSPs) and providers of VoIP services.

In addition to serving traditional CSPs, Neustar also serves a growing number of customers who are either enablers of Internet services or providers of information and content to Internet and telephone users.

See also

• Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
• Compuware
• Neotys
• Keynote Sigos
• Pingdom

References

1. ^ Neustar, Inc. (March 2, 2009), U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Form 10-K, FY2008, http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1265888/000095013309000545/w72883e10vk.htm, retrieved January 1, 2010 
2. ^ Neustar, Inc. (March 25, 2009), U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( Form S-1, http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1265888/000104746905008020/a2154212zs-1.htm, retrieved January 1, 2010 

Further reading

• NeuStar, Inc. (February 26, 2010), U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Form 10-K, FY2009, http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1265888/000095012310018171/w77295e10vk.htm

External links

• Neustar Inc. Official Website
• Neustar Investor Relations
• Neustar Facebook page