14 Facts About Neustar

Neustar, Inc is an American technology company that provides real-time information and analytics for risk, digital performance, defense, telecommunications, entertainment, and marketing industries, and provides clearinghouse and directory services to the global communications and Internet industries.

Neustar was the domain name registry for a number of top-level domains, including.

Until the end of 2018, Neustar was a North American Numbering Plan Administrator under behalf of the Federal Communications Commission, a role continued from its founder, Lockheed Martin.

Neustar was founded in Delaware in 1998 as a business unit within Lockheed Martin Corporation.

In January 2010, The Washington Post reported that under Hook's leadership, Neustar was chosen by a consortium of Hollywood studios and technology executives to manage a system whereby consumers could access movies and other video entertainment from multiple digital devices.

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Neustar entered into an asset purchase agreement in 2015 with Transaction Network Services for their caller authentication assets.

The following year, Neustar planned to split into two independent publicly traded companies.

Neustar lost its NPAC contract in 2016 to Ericsson subsidiary Telcordia.

Three months later, Neustar bought TRUSTID, a caller authentication and fraud prevention systems provider for contact centers.

From 1998 until 2015, the original business of Neustar was the administration of the North American Numbering Plan, the maintenance of the system of directories and databases that manage the telephone area codes and central office prefixes in North America.

Neustar provided clearinghouse services to emerging CSPs, including Internet service providers, mobile network operators, cable television operators, and voice over Internet protocol service providers.

Neustar offers internal and external managed Domain name system services that play a role in directing and managing traffic in the Internet, cloud-based DDoS attack protection and website performance management tools.

Neustar previously operated the authoritative directory for US Common Short Codes, part of the short messaging service relied upon by the US wireless industry, and provides solutions used by mobile network operators to enable mobile instant messaging for their end users.

Neustar offered a "Digital Rights Locker" for Hollywood studios, consumer electronics manufacturers and retailers looking for Digital restrictions management, such as UltraViolet and the planned Mobile DTV Trust Authority Open Mobile Video Coalition.