Ars Technica

A root-server at the Internet’s core lost touch with its peers. We still don’t know why.

For more than four days, a server at the very core of the Internet’s domain name system was out of sync with its 12 root server peers due to an unexplained glitch that could have caused stability and ...
ITWeb

Africa`s first root domain name server installed

South Africa has an 'insurance policy` against an Internet catastrophe, with its own root name server now operational at the Johannesburg Internet Exchange (JINX), thanks to volunteers and ...
Threat Post

Internet Root Name Servers Survive Unusual DDoS Attack

An unusual DDoS amplification attack was carried out 10 days ago against many of the Internet’s 13 root name servers, the authoritative servers used to resolve IP addresses. An unusual DDoS ...
MyBroadband

Teraco sponsors root name server operators

Teraco has stated it will sponsor colocation infrastructure to all 13 global root operators. “In sponsoring colocation infrastructure, we hope to increase the number of root operators available within ...