Digital Envoy, Inc., part of Dominion Enterprises

Dominion Enterprises

Dominion Enterprises is a Norfolk, Virginia-based media and information services company for the automotive and commercial vehicle, real estate, apartment rental, and employment industries...

, a media and information services company, is the parent company of Digital Element

Digital Element

Digital Element is a U.S.-based corporation that first coined the phrase "IP Intelligence", a technology that maps the Internet using non-invasive methods and indexes by Internet Protocol addresses...

 and Digital Resolve.

Company & History

Founded in 1999 by Rob Friedman, Sanjay Parekh and Dennis Maicon, Digital Envoy patented and introduced geotargeting technology (also recognized as geolocation

Geolocation

Geolocation is the identification of the real-world geographic location of an object, such as a radar, mobile phone or an Internet-connected computer terminal...

 or IP location technology). In 2005, Digital Envoy created two business units: Digital Element

Digital Element

Digital Element is a U.S.-based corporation that first coined the phrase "IP Intelligence", a technology that maps the Internet using non-invasive methods and indexes by Internet Protocol addresses...

 and Digital Resolve. In 2007, Landmark Communications

Landmark Communications

Landmark Media Enterprises LLC is a privately held media company headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia specializing in cable television, broadcast television, print publishing, and internet publishing...

, Inc. purchased Digital Envoy. The company became part of Dominion Enterprises in 2009.

See Also

• Geolocation
  Geolocation
  Geolocation is the identification of the real-world geographic location of an object, such as a radar, mobile phone or an Internet-connected computer terminal...
  
  
• Geolocation software
  Geolocation software
  In computing, geolocation software is used to deduce the geolocation of another party. For example, on the Internet, one geolocation approach is to identify the subject party's IP address, then determine what country , organization, or user the IP address has been assigned to, and finally,...
  
  
• Geomarketing
• Geotargeting
• Internet Protocol
  Internet Protocol
  The Internet Protocol is the principal communications protocol used for relaying datagrams across an internetwork using the Internet Protocol Suite...
  
  
• IP Address
  IP address
  An Internet Protocol address is a numerical label assigned to each device participating in a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication. An IP address serves two principal functions: host or network interface identification and location addressing...
  
  
• Website localization
  Website localization
  Website localization is the process of adapting an existing website to local language and culture in the target market.Two factors are involved—programming expertise and linguistic/cultural knowledge....
  
  
• Web analytics
  Web analytics
  Web analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of internet data for purposes of understanding and optimizing web usage....
  
  
• Identity Theft
  Identity theft
  Identity theft is a form of stealing another person's identity in which someone pretends to be someone else by assuming that person's identity, typically in order to access resources or obtain credit and other benefits in that person's name...
  
  
• Internet Fraud
  Internet fraud
  Internet fraud refers to the use of Internet services to present fraudulent solicitations to prospective victims, to conduct fraudulent transactions, or to transmit the proceeds of fraud to financial institutions or to others connected with the scheme....
  
  
• Two-factor authentication
  Two-factor authentication
  Two-factor authentication is an approach to authentication which requires the presentation of two different kinds of evidence that someone is who they say they are. It is a part of the broader family of multi-factor authentication, which is a defense in depth approach to security...
  
  
• Man-in-the-middle attack
  Man-in-the-middle attack
  In cryptography, the man-in-the-middle attack , bucket-brigade attack, or sometimes Janus attack, is a form of active eavesdropping in which the attacker makes independent connections with the victims and relays messages between them, making them believe that they are talking directly to each other...
  
  
• Online banking
  Online banking
  Online banking allows customers to conduct financial transactions on a secure website operated by their retail or virtual bank, credit union or building society.-Features:...