For DNS Operators, growing DNS infrastructure challenges include:

• Exposure to increasingly sophisticated DDOS attacks:  requires greater system capacities and stronger security mechanisms to combat.

• Exponential increase in traffic presents scalability and capacity challenges.

• Increased expectations imposed by governmental oversight and scrutiny as the importance of the Internet increases for communications, commerce and other vital interests.

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• Need to rapidly expand DNS resolution capabilities and footprint.

• Budgetary and operational considerations associated with the exponential growth in DNS traffic.

• Increased demands on internal human and technological resources.

Community DNS provides the answers:

• The Community DNS Anycast platform has been tested to a capacity of 500 million names, answering in excess of 100,000 queries per second (6 million queries per minute, 8.6 billion queries per day) on each server in its Anycast constellation, giving it ample capacity to thwart even the most sophisticated DDOS attacks of today.

• The Community DNS Anycast platform has the capacity under existing configurations to accommodate the dramatic growth of any DNS Operator in the world.

• The Community DNS Anycast platform represents a remarkable technological break-through in DNS resolution, allowing DNS Operators around the world to meet the expectations of customers, including governments, for robustness, stability, and security.

• The Community DNS Anycast platform offers pricing alternatives affordable to virtually any DNS Operator, and at a fraction of the cost of alternatives including in-house solutions.

• The Community DNS Anycast platform provides a simple interface to virtually any resolution system for easy integration and ongoing resolution operations.

• The Community DNS Anycast platform gives DNS Operators outsource advantages with maximum ability to control and manage their zone(s) and data, with flexible service offerings