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Īt one time NordVPN also used L2TP/IPSec and Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) connections for routers, but these were later removed, as they were largely outdated and insecure.

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The tests showed higher average download and upload speeds than both OpenVPN and IKEv2. The wider implementation was preceded by a total of 256,886 tests, which included 47 virtual machines on nine different providers, in 19 cities, and eight countries. In April 2020, NordVPN announced a gradual roll-out of the WireGuard-based NordLynx protocol on all its platforms.

According to tests performed by Wired UK, NordLynx produces 'speed boosts of hundreds of MB/s under some conditions.' NordLynx is a VPN tool based on the WireGuard protocol, which aims for better performance than the IPsec and OpenVPN tunneling protocols. For encryption, NordVPN has been using the OpenVPN and Internet Key Exchange v2/ IPsec technologies in its applications and also introduced its proprietary NordLynx technology in 2019. NordVPN routes all users' internet traffic through a remote server run by the service, thereby hiding their IP address and encrypting all incoming and outgoing data. The company's valuation reached $1.6 billion. In April 2022, NordVPN's parent company Nord Security raised $100 million in a round of funding led by Novator. In 2022, NordVPN closed its physical servers in India in response to the CERT-In's order for VPN companies to store consumers’ personal data for a period of five years. On his blog, Hunt described this role as 'work with NordVPN on their tools and messaging with a view to helping them make a great product even better.' In August 2020, Troy Hunt, an Australian web security expert and founder of Have I Been Pwned?, announced a partnership with NordVPN as a strategic advisor. In 2020, the initiative announced 5 key areas of focus: security, privacy, advertising practices, disclosure and transparency, and social responsibility. In December 2019, NordVPN became one of the five founding members of the newly formed 'VPN Trust Initiative', promising to promote online security as well as more self-regulation and transparency in the industry. The bug bounty was launched in December 2019, offering researchers monetary rewards for reporting critical flaws in the service. On October 29, 2019, NordVPN announced additional audits and a public bug bounty program. The press sources quoted the market rise in SASE technology as one of the key factors in the rebrand. Two years later, NordVPN Teams rebranded as NordLayer and moved towards SASE business solutions. In September 2019, NordVPN announced NordVPN Teams, a VPN solution aimed at small and medium businesses, remote teams and freelancers, who need secure access to work resources. As a result, NordVPN still operates in Russia, but its Russian users have no access to local servers. The provider declined to comply with the request and shut down its Russian servers on April 1. NordVPN was reportedly given one month to comply, or face blocking by Russian authorities. In March 2019, it was reported that NordVPN received a directive from Russian authorities to join a state-sponsored registry of banned websites, which would prevent Russian NordVPN users from circumventing state censorship. As of June 2021, NordVPN was operating 5,600 servers in 59 countries.

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In June 2018, the service launched an application for Android TV. In October 2017, it launched a browser extension for Google Chrome. Late in May 2016, it presented an Android app, followed by an iOS app in June the same year. NordVPN was established in 2012 by a group of childhood friends which included Tomas Okmanas. NordVPN has released their Linux client under the terms of the GPLv3 only.

Its offices are located in Lithuania, the United Kingdom, Panama and the Netherlands. NordVPN operates under the jurisdiction of Panama, as the country has no mandatory data retention laws and does not participate in the Five Eyes or Fourteen Eyes intelligence sharing alliances.

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NordVPN is developed by Nord Security (Nordsec Ltd), a company that creates cybersecurity software and was initially supported by the Lithuanian startup accelerator and business incubator Tesonet.

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Manual setup is available for wireless routers, NAS devices, and other platforms. NordVPN is a VPN service provided by company Nordsec Ltd with applications for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, and Android TV.

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