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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> | 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== | |||
Community DNS offers DNS resolution service for top level domain registries around the world. It provides Shared Rack Space, server, dedicated servers, License Solution etc package options with its services. | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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| Industry: | DNS provider |
| Headquarters: | CommunityDNS Ltd
Bath University Innovation Centre |
| Employees: | 100+ |
| Website: | http://www.communitydns.net/ |
| Key People | |
| Paul Kane, CEO Chuck Kisselburg (Director of Strategic Partnerships) | |
CommunityDNS is a DNS service provider company. The company started to provide DNS services from 1996 and currently has offices in UK, Japan and the US.
According to its official website, CommunityDNS supports 120 million domain names from 94 TLD zones, answering up to 18 billion queries per day with a current capacity of supporting 585 billion queries per day.[1] It supports IPv4, IPv6 and DNSSEC including NSEC3 technologies and CommunityDNS supports AXFR and IXFR (with or without TSIG) and FTP over VPN interfaces.
History
From CommunityDNS's official website, 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. This parent company to CommunityDNS has been providing software and technology systems services since 1994. [2] and started providing DNS services from 1996.
In 2001, it started own DNS infrastructure, as an AnyCast platform. [3]. Finally in 2007, CommunityDNS was lunched as a separate legal organization to provide DNS Anycast services to the global Internet community. [4]
In February, 2008, CommunityDNS announced the establishment of a partnership with CentralNic, a registry services provider company. [5]
In September, 2008, EURid, the European registry for .eu, announced the addion of a second anycast network to be operated by Community DNS ltd. using the Community DNS 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
Community DNS offers DNS resolution service for top level domain registries around the world. It provides Shared Rack Space, server, dedicated servers, License Solution etc package options with its services.
References
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