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VeriSign to Add Additional TLD DNS Servers

John Markhoff writes in The New York Times:

VeriSign servers, now in 20 regional centers around the world, will be expanded to 70 sites. The effort would not only improve response time, the company said, but would also make it possible to diagnose and contain Internet attacks more quickly.

VeriSign profits indirectly from the growth of Internet traffic from its business managing the .com and .net domains.

In addition to resisting cyber attacks, the enhancement of the root server system is made necessary by the rapid growth in new types of Internet devices, many of which can communicate among themselves without direct human intervention.

posted by Fergie @ 2/07/2007 07:30:00 PM