CEO of DotDM, Jennifer Aird, ICANN Caribbean Manager, Albert Daniels
The DotDM Corporation recently announced the deployment of a Domain Name Server Node in Dominica to improve internet security, speed and resilience for DotDM domain names through strategic partnership with Community DNS (CDNS) Limited (a world renowned leader in the area of cyber security).
The announcement was made at the 10th Caribbean Internet Governance Forum (CIGF) which was held in Nassau, Bahamas from August 5-8, 2014 by the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) in collaboration with internet stakeholders ICANN, ISOC and ARIN.
The Dominica node is a first for Dominica and the Caribbean and the first node to be deployed on the CDNS platform in the Caribbean and South America.
It is supported on one of the world’s largest global networks consisting of 59 nodes located in data centers in 50 countries and 6 Anycast Clouds.
The benefits of an in-country node include heightened resilience against cyber attacks, improved response, performance, robustness to mitigate against international internet failure, and overall upgraded service to local Internet Service Providers and internet users in Dominica.
“CDNS offers one of the largest and most secure anycast DNS constellations in service on the internet. Our platform has been tested to support over 500 million names and presently supports 73% of all registered domain names on the internet” says Paul Kane, President of CDNS and holder of one of the seven keys to the internet.
Jennifer Aird, CEO of the DotDM Corporation and Administrator of the .DM Domain Name Registry adds, “In keeping with our mission, we have forged a strategic alliance with Community DNS, an established global leader in operational capacity and are privileged to partner towards enhancing internet governance in the region and providing a case and experience to share with our neighboring CARICOM Member States. The DotDM Registry platform currently resolves queries for numerous domain names including government, local and international web sites. Undergirded by Dominica’s cyber security legislation, the .DM Domain Name Registry is uniquely poised to defend its customers against cyber crime, combat growing economic cyber threats and thwart attacks on the Dominica namespace.”
Along with ICANN officials and other Caribbean Registry operators attending the CIGF, Jennifer Britton, Deputy Programme Manager of the ICT4D Program of the Caricom Secretariat offered “Congratulations on this very forward-thinking move by you and your organisation in Dominica and for Dominica”.
LIME’s general manager also offered congratulations.
“Congratulations to you and your team and certainly a bold step with positive implications for Dominica. Well done!” he said.
Hope that will solve some of our International internet failures like frequently getting server error messages when accessing websites around the world especially the UK, London. Domain name registries must keep world standards in quality assurance for registrants. Heightened resilience, improved response, and robustness to mitigate will enable DotDM’s to function optimally in Dominica. We must also prevent cybersquatting by doing thorough background checks on DotDM registrants. That would prevent expensive future litigation and protect the true interest of our DotDM registry.
If only it were easy for Dominicans to use an automated system to register .dm domain names without paying the exorbitant rates charged to the rest of the world!
i think a definition of ‘node’ would help me understand… i had to look it up…
“A node is any device connected to a computer network. Nodes can be computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), cell phones, or various other network appliances. On an IP network, a node is any device with an IP address.”
Let me be the first to say internet security in dominica is a joke- ANYONE WITH A .DM CARE TO TRY ME.
Well you just proved their case for implementing this to enhance .dm security.