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| industry        = DNS provider
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| headquarters    = Bath University Innovation Centre <br/> Carpenter House Broad Quay<br/> Bath, BA1 1UD England
| country        = UK
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| products        =
| employees      = 100+
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| website        = [http://www.communitydns.net CommunityDNS.net]
| blog            =
| facebook        =
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| twitter        = CommunityDNS
| keypeople      = [[Paul Kane]], CEO <br/>
[[Chuck Kisselburg]], Director of Strategic Partnerships
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'''CommunityDNS:''' The network engineered for security, optimized for speed and designed for resilience.
'''CommunityDNS''' is a [[DNS]] service provider. The company started to provide DNS services in 1996, and currently has offices in the UK, Japan and the US.  
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===About CommunityDNS===
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Are you serious about a secure and resilient DNS?<br><br> Early adopters of DNSSEC, IPv6 and IDNs with a platform proven to comfortably support over 863,000 queries per second, CommunityDNS is the premiere secure global anycast DNS provider with the network engineered for security, optimized for speed and designed for resilience. CommunityDNS strives for excellence in DNS resilience because:
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*This is your Internet.
*This is your business.
*This is your country’s on-line perception.
*This is your online economy.
*This is important!
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===Staying Informed===
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*[http://www.communitydns.net CommunityDNS' Website] <br>
*[http://on.fb.me/bWoIyG-FB-Wall-CDNS CommunityDNS on Facebook]<br>
*[http://www.twitter.com @CommunityDNS on Twitter]<br>
*[http://www.linkedin.com/company/1456205?trk=null CommunityDNS on LinkedIn]<br>
*[http://www.blog.communitydns.net CommunityDNS' blog]<br>
*We welcome your input with e-mail to "FeedBack@CommunityDNS.net"
*Intersted in learning more?  Send e-mail to "BizDev@CommunityDNS.net"
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CommunityDNS supports 120 million domain names from 94 [[TLD]] zones, answering up to 18 billion queries per day, althought it has the current capacity to support 585 billion queries per day.<ref>[http://www.CommunityDNS.eu/facts.html communitydns.eu]</ref> It supports [[IPv4]], [[IPv6]] and [[DNSSEC]]. including [[NSEC3]] technologies, as well as [[AXFR]] and [[IXFR]] (with or without [[TSIG]]) and [[FTP]] over [[VPN]] interfaces.
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===Security===
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*The OS on each node is encrypted.
*The database on each node is encrypted.
*The links between nodes are encrypted.
*The link between customer and network is encrypted.
*Number of available ports typically used by DNS heavily decreased.
*Other secrets ensuring data integrity.
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===Speed and Capacity===
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*Supporting over 138,000,000 domain names, or close to 68% of the Internet.
*August 2010 Traffic Spike yielded comfortable processing of over 863,000 queries per second until spike ended close to 2 hours later.
*Average, non-busy day, the network easily processes 20Gbits/second traffic inbound and 50Gbits/second traffic outbound.
*Speed trial comparison with Oracle's fastest database when processing 11,000,000 transactions per second:  Over 11 times faster on writes, close to 4 times faster on reads.
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[[Category:CommunityDNS]]
[[Category:Anycast]]
[[Category:Recovery]]
[[Category:Disaster_Recovery]]
[[Category:Business_Continuity]]
[[Category:Disaster_Resiliency]]
[[Category:DNS]]
[[Category:Review for NPOV]]
[[Category:Companies]]


==History==
* CommunityDNS was part of a much larger group that has been working in the computer networking industry since the early 80's and the domain name industry since the mid 90's. CommunityDNS' parent company has been providing software and technology systems services since 1994, <ref>[http://www.communitydns.net/about_us.html CommunityDNS.net]</ref> and started providing DNS services in 1996.
* In 2001, it started its own anycast [[DNS]] infrastructure.<ref>[http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-55/presentations/kane-community-anycast.pdf ripe.net]</ref> In 2007, CommunityDNS was launched as a separate legal entity to provide anycast DNS services to the global internet community. <ref>[http://icannwiki.org/index.php?title=CommunityDNS_Fun_Facts&printable=yes icannnwiki.org]</ref>
* In February, 2008, CommunityDNS announced the establishment of a partnership with [[CentralNic]], a registry services provider.<ref>[https://www.centralnic.com/company/news/2008/community-dns CentralNic.com]</ref>
* In September, 2008, [[EURid]], the European registry for .eu, announced the addition of a second anycast network to be operated by CommunityDNS Ltd., using the CommunityDNS Anycast Resolution System. <ref>[http://www.eurid.eu/en/content/eu-gets-second-anycast-network EURid.eu]</ref>
* In October, 2009, the University of Maryland entered into an agreement with CommunityDNS as part of the Maryland International Incubator Programme.<ref>[http://www.mtech.umd.edu/mi2/companies.html Maryland International Incubator]</ref>
* Also in October, 2009, CommunityDNS announced an agreement with United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs to recognize its valuable contributions, fostering the forum for multi-stakeholder policy dialogue and service delivery.<ref>[http://www.communitydns.eu/UN.html CommunityDNS.eu]</ref>
==Products and Services==
CommunityDNS offers [[DNS]] resolution service for [[TLD]] [[:Category:Registries|registries]] around the world. It provides Shared Rack Space, server, dedicated servers, license solution, and package options with its services.
==References==
{{reflist}}
== External links==
* [http://www.communitydns.net/ CommunityDNS]
[[Category:DNS Services]]
[[Category:Past Sponsors]]
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Latest revision as of 17:23, 25 February 2022

Industry: DNS provider
Headquarters: Bath University Innovation Centre
Carpenter House Broad Quay
Bath, BA1 1UD England
Country: UK
Employees: 100+
Website: CommunityDNS.net
Twitter: @CommunityDNS
Key People
Paul Kane, CEO

Chuck Kisselburg, Director of Strategic Partnerships

CommunityDNS is a DNS service provider. The company started to provide DNS services in 1996, and currently has offices in the UK, Japan and the US.

CommunityDNS supports 120 million domain names from 94 TLD zones, answering up to 18 billion queries per day, althought it has the current capacity to support 585 billion queries per day.[1] It supports IPv4, IPv6 and DNSSEC. including NSEC3 technologies, as well as AXFR and IXFR (with or without TSIG) and FTP over VPN interfaces.

History

  • CommunityDNS was part of a much larger group that has been working in the computer networking industry since the early 80's and the domain name industry since the mid 90's. CommunityDNS' parent company has been providing software and technology systems services since 1994, [2] and started providing DNS services in 1996.
  • In 2001, it started its own anycast DNS infrastructure.[3] In 2007, CommunityDNS was launched as a separate legal entity to provide anycast DNS services to the global internet community. [4]
  • In February, 2008, CommunityDNS announced the establishment of a partnership with CentralNic, a registry services provider.[5]
  • In September, 2008, EURid, the European registry for .eu, announced the addition of a second anycast network to be operated by CommunityDNS Ltd., using the CommunityDNS Anycast Resolution System. [6]
  • In October, 2009, the University of Maryland entered into an agreement with CommunityDNS as part of the Maryland International Incubator Programme.[7]
  • Also in October, 2009, CommunityDNS announced an agreement with United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs to recognize its valuable contributions, fostering the forum for multi-stakeholder policy dialogue and service delivery.[8]

Products and Services

CommunityDNS offers DNS resolution service for TLD registries around the world. It provides Shared Rack Space, server, dedicated servers, license solution, and package options with its services.

References

External links