Neustar

Neustar is a technology company that specializes in providing cloud-based services designed to assist marketing and IT professionals in enhancing and safeguarding their businesses. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Sterling, Virginia, Neustar operates complex data registries and leverages its expertise to deliver actionable insights that facilitate high-value business decisions in real time. The company's services encompass a unique identity system and cloud-based workflow applications, which empower organizations to understand and connect people, places, and things effectively. This comprehensive approach enables businesses to make precise decisions across various departments, including marketing, risk, security, and operations.

Colin Doherty

CEO

15 past transactions

TrustID

Acquisition in 2018
TrustID, Inc. is focused on securing telephony transaction platforms by delivering customer validation technology for the telephone channel. TrustID validates the identity of a caller and provides true physical security for remote banking and other remote telephony based commerce.

Datasnap.io

Acquisition in 2015
Datasnap.io was acquired by Neustar in Oct. 2015. Its platform combines technology to measure, monitor and report on user data generated by iBeacon, and other handset-originated proximity technology. Datasnap.io reports are enriched by linking to contextual location, first party transaction, and third party sources of consumer and media consumption data. The platform is distinguished by engaging visualization and verifiable metrics that are based on the founding team’s experience building market defining products in financial industry reporting, mobile advertising, and mobile media measurement.

Bombora Technologies

Acquisition in 2015
Bombora Technologies specializes in domain name registration services, offering registry management for various top-level domains. The company oversees a range of domains, including .au, .melbourne, and .sydney, and has an extensive portfolio that includes over 100 new top-level domains. Among its clients are several entities listed in the Fortune 500, highlighting its significant role in the domain registry industry.

GO.CO

Acquisition in 2014
Built from the ground up to support innovators and entrepreneurs, .CO has become one of the fastest-growing global domain extensions in the world, with over 1.6 million .CO domain names registered by people and businesses in more than 150 countries. From start-ups and small businesses to big brands and multinational corporations, .CO is building a thriving community of users, including companies like Angel List, Twitter, 500 Startups and more, who are building the future of the Internet together. More than just a domain, .CO provides valuable tools, resources and support designed to help .CO users to build and grow successful businesses, including coveted tickets to educational programs, exclusive invitations to networking events, and promotional opportunities to help their businesses and brands to get noticed. .CO was founded by serial entrepreneur, Juan Diego Calle, who sold his previous company, TeRespondo, to Yahoo,Inc. in 2005. You can learn more about .CO at www.go.co.

DSET

Acquisition in 2014
DSET specializes in developing software solutions for the telecommunications industry, focusing on automating and streamlining service provisioning for telecom providers. With over 25 years of experience, the company offers a comprehensive suite of gateway and operations support systems (OSS) tools designed to address critical challenges such as number portability and directory listing orders. DSET has a history of innovation, including the introduction of the first North American number portability gateway and solutions that comply with FCC mandates. By participating in key industry bodies, DSET ensures its offerings are in line with the latest standards and best practices, enabling service providers to achieve faster deployments, reduced operational costs, and quicker revenue generation. Headquartered near Atlanta, Georgia, DSET also has direct sales operations and partnerships with distributors in Europe and Asia, enhancing its global reach in the telecom marketplace.

Aggregate Knowledge

Acquisition in 2013
Aggregate Knowledge is a media intelligence company that provides a platform designed to optimize advertising efforts for marketers and agencies. By integrating media and audience data, the company offers tools that enable advertisers to precisely identify and engage high-performing customers. This unique approach allows for real-time personalization and audience-centric display optimization, enhancing the effectiveness of marketing campaigns. As a result, clients can allocate their media budgets more efficiently, leading to increased reach and improved sales performance. Aggregate Knowledge's patented technology positions it as a leader in the field of media intelligence, delivering significant value to its users.

TARGUSinfo

Acquisition in 2011
TARGUSinfo is a provider of real-time caller intelligence applications and on-demand data services, primarily serving consumer-oriented businesses. The company specializes in delivering accurate information on telephone numbers, names, and addresses within the North American dialing plan, offering identification, verification, and location services for web-based marketers, retailers, call centers, and telecommunications providers. With its proprietary network and advanced predictive analytics, TARGUSinfo enables organizations to enhance customer interactions and improve decision-making processes. It processes over 15 billion real-time consumer-initiated transactions and verifications annually, helping clients increase revenue, enhance audience targeting, and optimize customer experiences. TARGUSinfo's unique relationships with telecommunications providers ensure its data remains exceptionally accurate and actionable, making it a valuable resource for various industries, including consumer products, online marketing, commerce, and the public sector. Headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, TARGUSinfo is committed to providing insights that drive smarter customer interactions across multiple platforms.

Quova

Acquisition in 2010
Quova, now known as Neustar's IP Intelligence, specializes in providing Internet Protocol (IP) geolocation data and services that enable businesses to accurately determine the geographical location of their website visitors, ranging from country to city. Their offerings include an Internet Location Intelligence Platform that helps online businesses locate visitors, a GeoDirectory Server for deploying location data, and an On-Demand Web service for integrating geolocation data into web applications. Additionally, Quova provides a comprehensive database called GeoPoint, which includes details about physical locations and network characteristics. The company emphasizes data accuracy and offers services such as geolocation audits and historical analysis to enhance the decision-making capabilities of advertising agencies, publishers, and web design firms.

Webmetrics

Acquisition in 2008
Founded in 1999 and acquired by Neustar in 2008 Neustar Webmetrics is a leading provider of collaborative web performance management solutions. Webmetrics website monitoring and testing services are used by companies that want to ensure online performance, competitive advantage and a positive end-user experience. Webmetrics Monitoring services enable companies to track, identify, solve and prevent web performance issues before customers are impacted. Webmetrics tests, monitors and measures the performance of web sites, web applications, web services, network services and streaming media to ensure 24/7 uptime and performance integrity. To meet customers’ unique requirements, Webmetrics offers both Basic and Enterprise Monitoring, with agents located in over 100 major cities worldwide. Webmetrics Load Testing services test your sites and applications against heavy loads or inputs to find the point at which they fail or performance degrades – providing real-world validation that your web applications are ready to go. Webmetrics offers both Full-Service and On-Demand Load Testing to meet customers’ unique needs, including the only solution with real browser users for testing.

Followap

Acquisition in 2006
Followap was the leading provider and pioneer of mobile Messenger - Instant Messaging and Presence solutions to the mobile industry. It was founded and managed by Dan Volach and Ben Volach when mobile Internet was just born. By the time it was acquired, it had over 20 mobile operators many of them tier-ones, serving a combined user base of over 200 million subscribers. Followap’s products enabled operators to establish advanced, interoperable mobile Messenger and presence-enhanced services, which were key for next-generation networks. Followap held numerous patents and was actively contributing to industry standardization efforts in forums including OMA, XMPP, IETF, 3GPP and the GSM Association. Followap cooperated with device manufacturers including Samsung, Nokia and LG. Followap has launched the first commercial mobile Messenger service in the year 2000 in partnership with Eircell, Ireland's largest mobile network. Other key customers of Followap included the Vodafone Group, Hutchison 3G Group, BT Group, Turkcell, Telecom Italia, Wind and Vimpelcom. The mobile Messenger which Followap pioneered evolved into extremely popular services following the introduction of the iPhone and App stores for wide-market distribution. These include Whatsapp, Line, QQ, WeChat and KakaoTalk. Its interconnect products included Interconnectivity, an important GSMA initiative for mobile operators, for the global adoption of instant messaging, across networks, and mobile phones. The company was founded in 1999 and was headquartered in London, the United Kingdom with offices in Europe, the United States and Asia.

UltraDNS

Acquisition in 2005
UltraDNS is a managed DNS service provider that focuses on delivering enhanced security, reliability, and performance for organizations that depend on DNS for essential business functions. As e-commerce expands and advanced DNS-based communication and supply chain management services emerge, UltraDNS offers innovative solutions tailored to meet evolving market demands. The company provides a variety of global and local DNS options, including managed services and custom infrastructure, leveraging its unique Directory Services Platform and proprietary technologies. Their offerings encompass traffic management solutions, website performance monitoring, recursive DNS, DNS-based load balancing, and geographic traffic shaping, ensuring that customers maintain seamless internet connectivity and optimal application performance.

Fiducianet

Acquisition in 2005
Fiducianet specializes in providing law enforcement compliance and fraud management services tailored for traditional and VoIP-enabled wireline, wireless, and cable service providers. The company offers a range of solutions that assist telecommunications carriers in fulfilling their legal obligations, including subpoena and court order review and processing. Additionally, Fiducianet supports law enforcement agencies by ensuring compliance with laws governing electronic surveillance, such as CALEA and the USA PATRIOT Act. The firm also manages call data and content, facilitates remote switch mediation and provisioning, and implements comprehensive electronic surveillance compliance. Furthermore, Fiducianet's revenue assurance services help service providers mitigate losses arising from revenue leakage and unaccounted costs.

NightFire Software

Acquisition in 2003
NightFire Software offers the first packaged order management software to automate the telecommunications service supply chain. By simplifying the interaction between retailers and wholesalers of telecommunications services, NightFire's products enable telecommunications service providers to deliver services quickly and cost-effectively to the newly deregulated telecommunications market, estimated to be $160 billion in 1998. The NightFire flagship product, NetServ Express automates the entire ordering process for competitive service providers, ensuring the highest level of service at the lowest cost and reducing the management burden on incumbent providers.

BizTelOne

Acquisition in 2003
BizTelOne provides operations support system (OSS) interconnection services to the communications industry. The company develops OSS interconnection clearinghouse, the American Communications Exchange to automate interconnection with incumbent local exchange carriers.
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