CommunityDNS is pleased to announce a new free monitoring service to customers.

Following customer feedback, CommunityDNS' service has proven to be considered one of the most reliable and robust DNS services available and as part of our on-going service improvement, customers have asked us to provide additional monitoring and alert service of their complete TLD name server suite.

Whilst this customer request was initially considered rather unusual, in that it is not common for a service provider to monitor servers outside of their own network; following extensive testing and customer input, the new service is launched.

CommunityDNS has now established a global network of Nagios 24x7x365 monitoring servers to check the availability of all of the DNS servers used by a TLD registry customer.

Consequently, CommunityDNS' free 24x7 Name Server checking service ensures that all authoritative name servers of a customer's TLD are responding to DNS queries from our three office locations, namely UK, USA and Japan. In the event that a server failure is identified from any of our Nagios server locations, an alert email will be sent to the customer's specified alert email address.

This new service compliments CommunityDNS' existing suite of monitoring services which are designed to support, inform and protect customer's provision of service to the Internet community.

Access to this new service is via customer's standard control and administration panel provided by CommunityDNS.

About CommunityDNS
After extensive development and testing by multiple DNS providers from various parts of the world, the Community DNS Anycast System was launched as a commercial service in June 2007. Today CommunityDNS receives billions of queries per day and is retained by "blue-chip" companies in the Internet world to provide a robust and secure service to their user community.

It is designed to act either as a secondary, Slave System to supplement and enhance existing DNS resolution infrastructure, or as a Master/Slave System for those DNS providers that want a complete DNS solution. The CommunityDNS Anycast System is cost effective, reliable, and secure providing unmatched performance results. Its expanding network of Anycast server clusters is designed to "localize" traffic while giving participating DNS operators secure control their own zones and data, as well as tools to monitor and react to DNS events. Currently CommunityDNS has contracts to support 104million (70%) of the world's registered domain names, worldwide.

Contact:
Sally Tomms at Sally.Tomms@communitydns.eu
URL www.communitydns.eu