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DNS.com LLC

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ5285865 ↗
Source-derived summary

DNS.com LLC was an American Domain Name System service website which evolved into a brand. In March 2014 it was re-branded dnsbycomodo.com.

History

The website, founded in 1991, was administrated by Dan Kimball (CEO), Brian Smith (CTO), Sean Stafford (COO) and Eric Radtke (CMO). In 2010, Comwired Inc. acquired the site and began offering its enterprise DNS service from it. In February 2011, DNS.com was acquired by cybersecurity company Comodo.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014, 1991, 2010, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1991. For this dossier, Open-knowledge and entry is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5285865. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2014, 1991, 2010 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “DNS.com LLC” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.