Cricket Liu is the co-author of all of O'Reilly's Nutshell Handbooks on the Domain Name System, "DNS and BIND," "DNS on Windows NT," "DNS on Windows 2000," "DNS on Windows Server 2003," and the "DNS & BIND Cookbook," and was the principal author of Managing Internet Information Services.

Cricket is Infoblox's vice president of architecture and serves as a liaison between Infoblox and the DNS user community. He worked for HP for nearly 10 years, where he ran hp.com, one of the largest corporate domains in the world, and helped found HP's Internet consulting business. Cricket later co-founded his own Internet consulting and training company, Acme Byte & Wire. After Network Solutions acquired Acme Byte & Wire and later merged with VeriSign, Cricket became director of DNS Product Management.