The NSD was primarily developed by NLnet Labs on request from and close
cooperation with RIPE NCC, as an alternative name server software to be
run on the root name server RIPE NCC operates.

Below is the NSD team (nsd-team@nlnetlabs.nl) in alphabetical order:

Alexis Yushin, NLnet Labs       - design and implementation for NSD 1.0.x 
                                  and 1.1.x.
Erik Rozendaal, NLnet Labs      - design and implementation for NSD 1.2.x
                                  and later.
Daniel Karrenberg, RIPE NCC     - design, major testing and bug reports
Jaap Akkerhuis, SIDN NL         - consultancy, advice and company :)
Jelte Jansen, NLnet Labs        - testing, patches, advice, NSD 3
Matthijs Mekking, NLnet Labs    - testing, patches, maintenance, NSD 3
Miek Gieben, NLnet Labs         - testing, patches, zone compiler, NSD 2
Olaf Kolkman, RIPE NCC          - protocol purist, design, perl test implementation
Ronald van der Pol, NLnet Labs  - code review, MacOS X portability, IPv6.
Ted Lindgreen, NLnet Labs       - design, code review, testing
Wouter Wijngaards, NLnet Labs   - design and implementation for NSD 3 and NSD 4.

Contributors (in alphabetical order):

Aaron Glenn                                     - DragonflyBSD, BSD/sparc64 testing.
Ben Laurie                                      - NSEC3 patch.
Bin Zhang                                       - NSD 3 prerelease testing.
Colm MacCárthaigh,                              - IPv6 binding and cleanups.
Greg Bock                                       - confine-to-zone feature.
Farkas Levente                                  - rpm specfile improvements.
Jakob Schlyter, Kirei                           - chroot and several other patches
Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino, IIJLab                - IPv6 transport
Kai                                             - NSD 3 prerelease testing.
Mans Nilsson                                    - (Solaris) Testing
Markus Heimhilcher                              - .AT zones for testing 
Martin Svec                                     - Optimalization patches.
Matthew Smith                                   - NetBSD testing.
Ondrej Sury                                     - nsd-notify.8 man page
Paul Wouters                                    - zone compiler testing
Peter Hessler                                   - OpenBSD, amd64 testing.
Stephane Bortzmeyer                             - Tru64 portability. Config conversion.