| Website | neustar.biz |
| Category | Network/Hosting |
| Phone | 571-434-5400 |
| Employees | |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Description | Information Technology and Services |
NeuStar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR) is a provider of surveillance, clearinghouse, and directory services to the global communications and Internet industry. Its customers use the databases NeuStar contractually maintains in its clearinghouse to obtain data required to route telephone calls in North America, to exchange information with other communications service providers, and to manage technological changes in their own networks.
With it’s acquisition of Fiducianet in 2005, NeuStar 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.
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.
In addition, 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. 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 worldwide to enable mobile instant messaging for their end users.
