CommunityDns.net
Title
CommunityDNS
Additional Information
CommunityDNS is the premiere supplemental global Anycast DNS network. Based in the UK with offices in the US, the UK and Japan, CommunityDNS is the network:
- Engineered for security
- Optimized for speed
- Designed for resilience.
Comfortably processed over 863,000 queries per second during traffic spike in Hong Kong, August, 2010.
Supporting over 133,000,000 names, or close to 70% of the Internet, CommunityDNS provides:
Security:
- Supplemental global DNS Anycast network with platforms hardened to military specifications.
- Extensive security and encryption throughout CommunityDNS' complete Anycast infrastructure.
- The OS on each node is encrypted
- Data on each node is encrypted
- Connections between client and network are encrypted
- Connections between nodes are securely managed
- The number of ports traditionally used for DNS has been largely decreased.
Speed:
- 8 times faster than BIND
- 10 times faster than NSD
- Over 11 times faster than Oracle's fastest database on reads.
- Close to 4 times faster than Oracle's fastest database on writes.
- Never impacted by volumes associated with DoS/DDoS attacks, always delivering legitimate queries.
- The sheer speed of CommunityDNS' secure technology provides the speed and scalability and capacity essential for mitigating attacks and increased infrastructure demands associated with DNSSEC implementation.
Resilience:
- Maintained 100% uptime since first providing DNS services in 1996.
- Provides 99.999% SLA support.
- Stability of platform performance, scalability and capacity, currently supporting close to 70% of today's Internet.
- Successfully tested to authoritatively support 500,000,000 domains.
- Successfully tested to support 585,000,000,000 queries per day.
Serious about security, resilience and vision CommunityDNS fully supports:
- IPv6
- DNSSEC (NSEC, NSEC3, NSEC3+OptOut)
- Security-DNS DNSSEC zone signing tool
- IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names)
- Onsite authoritative resolving of over 133,000,000+ domain names
- Reverse lookup
- Helping ISPs identify client virus/bot infection
- Name server aliasing
- Complete white-label services
- Updates through standard AXFR or IXFR
- Real time monitoring information that also allows users to monitor their network.
- Automated process controls preventing loading of flawed zone files.
Other:
- CEO, Paul Kane, selected by ICANN as one of 7 from around the world as a Trusted Community Representative for safe-guarding a share of the ROOT Zone's DNSSEC Recovery Key.
- Working with the DNS Resiliency Infrastructure Task Force, competed a study for the EU's Directorate-General for Justice, Freedom and Security regarding resilience of the DNS for the EU and its Member States.
Customers:
- Listen to what our customers are saying about CommunityDNS!
External Links
- CommunityDNS: www.CommunityDNS.net
- DNS Signing tool: www.Security-DNS.net
- Alexa: www.CommunityDns.net
- WHOIS for CommunityDns.net
