{"id":44800,"date":"2018-10-21T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cira.ca\/news\/cira-d-zone-anycast-dns-gains-worldwide-momentum\/"},"modified":"2023-03-10T10:56:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T15:56:54","slug":"cira-d-zone-anycast-dns-gains-worldwide-momentum","status":"publish","type":"cira_news","link":"https:\/\/www.cira.ca\/en\/resources\/news\/cybersecurity\/cira-d-zone-anycast-dns-gains-worldwide-momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"CIRA D-Zone Anycast DNS gains worldwide momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is celebrating the momentum of D-Zone Anycast DNS among its global country code top-level domain (ccTLD) partners at the ICANN\u00a0meeting in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>BARCELONA \u2013 October 22, 2018 \u2013 Today, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is celebrating the momentum of <a href=\"\/node\/606\">D-Zone Anycast DNS<\/a> among its global country code top-level domain (ccTLD) partners at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) meeting in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>With two new ccTLD partners\u2014Singapore (.sg) and Chile (.cl)\u2014and two new global nodes\u2014in Brazil and Japan\u2014CIRA continues to see tremendous support and growth for its DNS services.<\/p>\n<h2>Key facts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sgnic.sg\/\">Singapore Network Information Centre<\/a> (SGNIC) manages the .sg top-level domain for Singapore, which counts more than 180,000 domains under management.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nic.cl\/\">NIC Chile<\/a> manages the .cl top-level domain on behalf of Chile. Currently, more than 570,000 domain names are under management with NIC Chile.<\/li>\n<li>CIRA now has 25 nodes across the globe providing a robust network that powers <a href=\"\/node\/606\/\">D-Zone Anycast DNS<\/a> for our ccTLD customers.<\/li>\n<li>CIRA D-Zone Anycast DNS now answers approximately 180 million DNS queries per day for its TLD customers to help provide greater resiliency to their networks.<\/li>\n<li>CIRA D-Zone Anycast DNS is built for resilience with a strong footprint at each node across a global, well-peered network that is recognized as best-in-class by some of the most discriminating buyers in the industry.<\/li>\n<li>CIRA D-Zone Anycast DNS is now used by ccTLDs across the globe including .cl, .cr, .dk, .nl, .nu, .nz, .pt, .se, .sg and of course .CA. D-Zone Anycast DNS answers queries for nine percent of all global ccTLDs domain names.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Executive quotes<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"quote-figure\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>We were looking for DNS partner with a global reputation and solid infrastructure. We found that partner in CIRA and look forward to a productive relationship.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><figcaption class=\"attribution\"><span class=\"name\">Queh Ser Pheng,<\/span> <span class=\"organization\"> General Manager, SGNIC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"quote-figure\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>CIRA&#8217;s global reputation in the ccTLD community provided us with the confidence that we could trust them with our DNS. Our customers demand the highest standards of uptime and security and D-Zone Anycast DNS helps us deliver that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><figcaption class=\"attribution\"><span class=\"name\">Eduardo Mercader Orta,<\/span> <span class=\"organization\"> Director of Operations, NIC Chile<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"quote-figure\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>CIRA is proud to partner with ccTLDs to provide a stable, secure, high performance DNS. Starting with DNS, our relationships have expanded to be true partnerships that include collaboration and information sharing with our ccTLD peers around the globe.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><figcaption class=\"attribution\"><span class=\"name\">Mark Gaudet,<\/span> <span class=\"organization\"> DNS Program Manager, CIRA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Additional resources<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn more about <a href=\"\/node\/606\">D-Zone Anycast DNS<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Get the <a href=\"\/node\/2706\">CIRA Cybersecurity Survey Report<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>About the Canadian Internet Registration Authority<\/h2>\n<p>The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) manages the .CA top-level domain on behalf of all Canadians. CIRA also develops technologies and services\u2014such as D-Zone DNS Firewall\u2014that help support its goal of building a better online Canada. The CIRA team operates one of the fastest-growing country code top-level domains (ccTLD), a high-performance global DNS network, and one of the world&#8217;s most advanced back-end registry solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is celebrating the momentum of D-Zone Anycast DNS among its global country code top-level domain (ccTLD) partners at the ICANN\u00a0meeting in Barcelona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"slim_seo":{"title":"CIRA D-Zone Anycast DNS gains worldwide momentum - CIRA","description":"Today, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is celebrating the momentum of D-Zone Anycast DNS among its global country code top-level domain (ccT"},"footnotes":""},"topic":[28],"class_list":["post-44800","cira_news","type-cira_news","status-publish","hentry","cira_news_type-cira-news-type-press-release","cira_topic-cira-topic-cybersecurity","cira_author-spencer-callaghan"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cira.ca\/en\/wp-json\/cira\/v1\/news\/44800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cira.ca\/en\/wp-json\/cira\/v1\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cira.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cira_news"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cira.ca\/en\/wp-json\/cira\/v1\/news\/44800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cira.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cira_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cira.ca\/en\/wp-json\/cira\/v1\/topic?post=44800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}