The next question would be how does this robust and secure DNS infrastructure that we have make a difference when it comes to DDOSes. So the question is how does that play into the big picture. So this is one of the things that makes it, you know, a little better for our company and for our customers able to defend against the attacks, but nothing is perfect. We've been doing this for many, many years, and because the companies that we have as customers are so critical for many things, not just for the internet, but in banking, and in finance, and in government, and in shipping and transportation and in the power industry we've been able to get assistance from a lot of third parties to harden what we have from a technology point of view, from the point of view of resources, and also from the point of view of being able to respond when there's an event.
We have infrastructure that's global, we have systems that sit in probably 20 or 25 countries around the world that are protected by mechanisms that we've developed over the last 10 or 12 years. That gives us a very good basis with which to actually defend our customers, or to help defend our customers because we're able to do things within DNS that most companies don't.
So, for example, in UltraDNS and in Neustar what we've done is we've developed some mechanisms that make it as robust as possible, effectively turning it into a carrier class mechanism for protecting infrastructure. Now we end up in a world where that weakness is actually exploited many times by the criminals, by attackers.
It was designed for networks that weren't very reliable and so it made it, you know, to a certain extent reliable. It was designed to be robust from a reliability point of view and it's built on a protocol that says if my packets don’t get through I’ll just retransmit them and they're not critical. The DNS infrastructure was never designed to be very secure. The key thing to understand is that actually, the foundation of these attacks and the thing that makes the internet that vulnerable actually lies within the DNS, the domain name system, which is the system that converts domain names to IP addresses which is what the computers understand.