CHANNELISLES.NET and Netnod team up for to provide improved experience for local Internet users.
Alderney & Stockholm
9th of October 2012, 02.00 pm UTC
CHANNELISLES.NET operates the local web addresses of .GG and .JE and will use Netnod’s extensive infrastructure to complement it’s own worldwide name service network (which currently uses servers in both Bailiwicks, as well as in the UK, Denmark and New Zealand) by adding Netnod’s DNSNODE service which provides DNS service from a multitude of strategic locations world wide using anycast technology. This will enhance service for users of the local web address, provide rapid response to any unexpected demand and provide a significant capacity upgrade.
Nigel Roberts, Chief Technical Officer of CHANNELISLES.NET said today:
“We have chosen Netnod for their outstanding technical expertise and fully trust their competence to meet the high level demands associated with the operation of our supplementary name service for .GG and .JE since they already run one of the most important sites on the 'Net, one of the “root” servers, and also provide the same services to the largest country-code Internet domain registry (Germany).”
Kurt Erik Lindqvist, Chief Executive Officer of Netnod added:
“Netnod is happy to assist the Islands in enlarging their virtual footprint by offering them the shared use of our widespread multi-site anycast infrastructure for full backup support of .GG and .JE names, for the common good of all Internet users. Of course, we are very pleased, after having supported a large fraction of the European top-level domains for a long time, that the Channel Islands domain registry choose us to be their strategic partner for secondary name services.”
About CHANNELISLES.NET
CHANNELISLES.NET is the trading name of the Island Networks Group, which was founded by Nigel Roberts in 1996 and operates the local Internet web addresses of .GG for the Bailiwick of Guernsey, and .JE for the Bailiwick of Jersey. Next to running a multi-site worldwide name server network, CHANNELISLES.NET provides all domain database and registration system resources for .GG and .JE.
CHANNELISLES.NET's mission is supporting a fast, secure and reliable access to Islanders' Internet pages and e-mail addresses, through the excellence of its extensive name server infrastructure and services. Today, many ISPs and other registrars from the IT and telecommunications industry in the islands and also abroad offer .GG and .JE registration services.
CHANNELISLES.NET is also committed to be a leading force in shaping the continued development of the open, decentralized and secure Internet, in a regular collaborative effort with international Internet bodies including ICANN, CENTR and others.
About Netnod
Netnod is a not-for-profit, neutral and independent Internet infrastructure organisation, based in Sweden and owned by the TU foundation. Netnod provides technical services to domain registry operators worldwide through its highly respected and robust DNSNODE product.
Netnod is also the proud operator of i.root-servers.net, one of the thirteen “root” name servers in the world that keep the Internet running. This service is provided as a public service to the Internet community at-large, as part of Netnod’s goal to work for the “Good of the Internet”.
Finally, Netnod operates five exchanges in Sweden where Internet operators exchange traffic. The Netnod IX has among the highest amount of traffic per peer in Europe and is fully IPv6 enabled.