NeuStar at a Glance
Historical Highlights
- 2008
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- Webmetrics Acquisition
- 2006
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- Followap Acquisition
- Ultra DNS Acquisition
- Partnership with Bridge Mobil Alliance
- CSC 6-digits
- 2005
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- SIP-IX
- GSMA root directory
- NeuStar Initial Public Offering
- Fortec Seminars acquisition
- 2004
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- IP Traffic Exchange
- Identity Services Exchange
- Taiwan Number Portability
- VoIP OMS Launched
- 2003
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- First Industry Identity Federation Trial
- Nightfire Software acquisition
- Wireless Portability Launched
- Common Short Codes
- 2002
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- .US Registry Launch
- .CN and .TW Registry Gateways
- First Digital Identity Standards
- Order Management Services
- 2001
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- CARE Launched
- Number Pooling Administration
- 2000
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- .biz Registry Awarded
- First Industry ENUM Trials
- 1999
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- Divested From Lockheed, Become NeuStar
- NANP Exhaust Study (to preserve NANP)
- 1998
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- Number Pooling State Trials
- 1997
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- North American Numbering Plan Administration (NANPA)
- Wireline Portability Successfully Launched
- 1996
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- NeuStar Launched as Lockheed Martin CIS
- First Numbering Portability Contracts Awarded
Corporate Overview:
NeuStar (NYSE: NSR) is a leading provider of essential clearinghouse services to the global communications and Internet industry.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer:
Jeffrey E. Ganek
Corporate Headquarters:
NeuStar Inc.
46000 Center Oak Plaza
Sterling, Virginia 20166
1-571-434-5400
Founded in 1996:
McLean, Virginia
Business:
NeuStar (NYSE: NSR) provides the North American communications industry with essential clearinghouse services. We operate the authoritative directories that manage virtually all telephone area codes and numbers, and enable the dynamic routing
of calls among thousands of competing communications service providers (CSPs) in the United States and Canada. All telecommunications service providers (TSPs), as well as CSPs that offer telecommunications services to the public at large, must access our clearinghouse as one of our customers to properly route virtually all of their calls. We also provide clearinghouse services to emerging CSPs, including Internet service providers, cable television operators, and voice over Internet protocol, or VoIP, service providers. In addition, we manage the authoritative directories for the .us and .biz Internet domains, as well as for Common Short Codes, part of the short messaging service, or SMS, relied upon by the U.S. wireless industry.
Stock Symbol:
NSR on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
Corporate Headquarters:
NeuStar, Inc.
46000 Center Oak Plaza
Sterling, VA 20166
+1-571-434-5400
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Major Products by Category
Addressing Services
Addresses are resources such as telephone numbers or Internet top-level domain names that are shared among service providers and critical for effective communications. Each communications device must have a unique address so that communications can be routed correctly to the intended device. NeuStar provides the following Addressing Services:
- Number Pooling
- NANP Administration
- European Telephony Numbering Space (ETNS)
- .BIZ Domain
- .US Domain
- kids.us Domain
- .tw Domain Registry Gateway (Taiwan)
- .cn Domain Registry Gateway (China)
- Wireless Do-Not-Call (WDNC)
- ENUM
- Common Short Codes (CSCs)
Interoperability Services
Our interoperability services enable the exchange of operating data so communications originating on one service provider's network are delivered to and received by another network. These solutions consist of wireline and wireless number portability and order management services, including:
- Local Number Portability
- Local Service Request (LSR)
- Access Service Request (ASR)
- Enhanced Service Request (ESR)
- Customer Account Record Exchange (CARE)
- Intercarrier Communications Process (ICP)
- Pre-Port Validation
- Enhanced 911 (E911)
- Line Information Database / Calling Name (LIDB/CNAM)
- Identity Services Exchange
- SIP-IX
- Industry Alliance Program
- Wireless Number Portability (WNP)
- Wireless Message Routing Service (WMRS)
Infrastructure Services
Our infrastructure services enable centralized network management, connection services and fiduciary compliance with the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) such as: