CommunityDNS looks back at 2009's achievements and forward to 2010
(Bath University's Innovation Centre, UK - December 12, 2009)
2009 has been a year underscoring CommunityDNS' commitment to providing the DNS network engineered for security, optimized for speed and designed for resilience. Designed from the ground up, including an operating system designed around the highest levels of (military grade) security, purpose built DNS application software and network monitoring serivces, CommunityDNS has brought new levels of service to the DNS community. Whilst we prefer our customers to use CommunityDNS as a supplement to their existing service (providers), we have seen an increasing number of customers migrate from their existing providers to the CommunityDNS platform.
Originally designed for the TLD community (both ccTLD and gTLDs) we have seen an increasing number of ISPs obtain service from our expanding network. The introduction of four more Anycast networks, bringing our total to six dedicated Anycast service, some dedicated to DNS Services, whilst others applications of our networks promote other high availability services, such as web sites.
Whilst we have always been providing 100% uptime, we moved from a 99.999% availability Service Level Agreement to 100% "always-on SLA" - over time we have proven to our customer and to ourselves that our network is always "on".
We were delighted when in March 2009, CommunityDNS was approved by a project of the European Commission DG for Justice Freedom and Security as the only Technology provider meeting their threshold for the Prevention, Preparedness and Consequence Management of Terrorism and other Security Related Risks as part of the European Programme on Critical Infrastructure Protection.
CommunityDNS was pleased to be accepted as a contributing partner to the United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Internet Governance Forum division. CommunityDNS was honoured to be recognised by Ambassador Kummer as "Providing one of the largest foundational serivces key to making the Internet resilient for all users, CommunityDNS has always worked to stay ahead of the malicious curve by delivering a service that is proven, well distributed and secure".
Our DNS platform supports all forms of DNSSEC, (NSEC, NSEC3, NSEC3 with opt-out) and we were pleased to be able to assist existing customer in their transition to DNSSEC. Our Paper for TLD Registry operators was well received (over 1000 downloads) and has been used as reference material for Policy makers and operators alike.
Aside from being fully DNSSEC aware, CommunityDNS also supports IPv6 and is ready for IDNs when they emerge on to the global name space.
We were honoured to contribute staff and resources to the "DNS Infrastructure Resilience Task Force" www.dir.org the pioneering work in the "early warning and information sharing system" specifically relating to DNS issues is likely to be adopted by other organisations around the world.
As we look forward to 2010, we see increasing emphasis being placed on Contingency Planning and SLA's that guarantee 100% uptime of DNS infrastructure. The moving of DNSSEC from the academic world to the production environment will lead to a few unexpected results some of which we raised in February 2009. The concept of having idea of having two sets of complimentary Root Servers, one set signed the other the unsigned legacy system, (slide 17) was rejected for fear of being a burden to ROOT operators - time will tell. When things do go wrong that will be a real burden.... to users and operators alike!
As contingency planning and DNS resilience becomes increasingly important, it has become aparent why we were selected by the DNS Infrastructure Resilience Task Force - we obtained the "Contractor's GOLD standard" for Contingency and Resiliency - another benchmark for our unparalled quality of service. If you have any questions or subject of feedback, please feel free to contact us feedback@communitydns.net.
About CommunityDNS
With offices in the US, the UK and Japan, CommunityDNS is the global Anycast provider whose network was engineered for security, optimized for speed and designed for resiliency. Successfully supporting over 120 million domain names from over 97 TLDs, CommunityDNS processes 25 billion queries per day. With security integral in the network's initial design, CommunityDNS was chosen to work in a study commissioned by the EU Commission's office of the Directorate General for Justice, Freedom and Security regarding Internet resiliency for the European Union. Fully supporting IPv6, DNSSEC and IDNs, CommunityDNS provides global DNS Anycast services, fully managed DNS platform services and DNS white-labeling.
More information regarding CommunityDNS may be found at http://www.cdns.net/facts.html