Neustar

Type:	Public
Industry:	Telecommunication
Founded:	USA (1996)
Headquarters:	Corporate Headquarters 46000 Center Oak Plaza Sterling, VA 20166 USA
Employees:	966 (2009)
Revenue:	4,294,000 (2009)
Website:	http://www.neustar.biz
Key People
Lisa Hook, CEO Eric Brown, Director Paul S. Lalljie SVP and CFO Jack Dziak SVP and CSO

NeuStar is a telecommunication service providing company Virginia, USA, which also company provides surveillance, clearinghouse, and directory services to the global communications and Internet industry. NeuStar was founded in 1996 under Lockheed Martin CIS and changed its name to NeuStar in 1999.

NeuStar acts as both traditional providers of communications i.e. local exchange carriers, competitive local exchange carriers, wireless service providers, and long distance carriers etc and communication service technology providers i.e. VoIP services, wireless data, and law enforcement compliances. Thier clearinghouse services enable customers to manage activities like recordi exchanges, subscriber growth, network optimization, content management, and inter-network call origination and termination

History

In 1995 two technology companies, Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta Corporation merged to form Lockheed Martin Corporation. Lockheed Martin’s Communication Industry Services (CIS) division was transfared to NeuStar, Inc in November, 1999.

In 1996, NeuStar, then the Communications Industry Services (CIS) operating unit within Lockheed Martin, won its original contract to provide local number portability services to select regions throughout North America. In 1997, it won the contract to become the official North American Numbering Plan (NANP) administrator.

In 1998, Neustar trialed number pooling at the state-wide level.

In 1999, NeuStar and Austria based Melbourne IT combine strengths to form NeuLevel, new joint venture to .biz Internet domain name services under ICANN bid. The since dissolved joint was awarded the contract to administer the name registry for the .BIZ Internet domain. Today, Neustar is the sole registry operator for .BIZ.

In 2003, Neustar Acquired Assets Of NightFire Software, a standards-based service management solutions for the communications industry.

Neustar announced the first major number portability initiative outside the United States as number portability was launched in Taiwan in October,2005.

In 2005, Neustar became a public company on the New York Stock Exchange, trading under the ticker symbol "NSR". In December 2005, NeuStar won IPO of the year award by the IPO research committee at Renaissance Capital.

NeuStar acquired Foretec Seminar which will later be known as NeuStar Neustar Secretariat Services in 2005. NeuStar also Acquired Fiducianet, provides law enforcement compliance and fraud management services to carriers, in the same year and thus became the single largest provider of services involving subpoenas, court orders and law enforcement agency requests under electronic surveillance laws including CALEA, the USA Patriot Act and the Homeland Security Act of 2002.

In April 2006, NeuStar bought UltraDNS, a global and local DNS solution for about $61.8 million in cash. In November 2006, NeuStar acquired Uk based IM service provider Followap for $139 M..

In September 2007, NeuStar and ClearTech,a elecommunication service provider company, jointly won contract for number portability in Brazil.

In September 2008, NueStar and GSM Association (GSMA) signed an agreement to offer Root Domain Name System (DNS) services to more than 680 global GSM mobile operators.

In January 2008, NeuStar bought WebMetrics,San Diego company to provide SaaS and website testing and monitoring services, for $12.5 million.

NeuStar announced amendment of its telephone number portability contracts in Januray 2009.

External links

• NeuStar
• NeuStar Registry