Cricket Liu graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, that great bastion of free speech, unencumbered Unix, and cheap pizza. He joined Hewlett-Packard after graduation and worked there for nine years.

Cricket began managing the hp.com zone after the Loma Prieta earthquake forcibly transferred the zone's management from HP Labs to HP's Corporate Offices (by cracking a sprinkler main and flooding a Labs computer room). Cricket was hostmaster@hp.com for over three years and then joined HP's Professional Services Organization to co-found HP's Internet Consulting Program.

He left HP in 1997 to form Acme Byte & Wire, a DNS consulting and training company, with his friend (and now coauthor) Matt Larson. Network Solutions acquired Acme in June 2000 and, later the same day, merged with VeriSign. Cricket worked for a year as Director of DNS Product Management for VeriSign Global Registry Services.

He joined Infoblox, a company that develops DNS and DHCP appliances, in March 2003, and is currently its Vice President of Architecture.

Cricket, his wife Paige, their son Walt, and daughter Greta live in California with their two Siberian Huskies, Annie and Dakota.

Paul Albitz is a software engineer at Hewlett-Packard. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse, and a Master of Science degree from Purdue University.

Paul worked on BIND for the HP-UX 7.0 and 8.0 releases. During this time, he developed the tools used to run the hp.com domain. Since then, he has worked on various HP products during his 19-year career: HP JetDirect software, HP OfficeJet fax firmware, the HPPhoto web site, and HP Photosmart Premier software.

Paul and his wife Katherine live in San Diego, California with their two cats, Gracie and Tiffany.