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Customers who register domain names with us now have the option of signing up for SafestDNS™ to minimize DNS resolving downtime.
SafestDNS™ is an addition to the availability of the name servers. When a customer subscribes to the service, he gains access to a cloud of over 35 geographically diverse name servers which all answer to the same IP address.
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Why SafestDNS™?
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For governments, businesses and internet communities around the world, Internet infrastructure is of vital importance for online transactions, communications, education and information dissemination. Organizations’ Internet Infrastructures have become potential targets to increasingly sophisticated and numerous DDOS and other malicious attacks, and must be prepared with adequate defences.
The SafestDNS™ architecture isolates malicious traffic as much as possible within the geographical region of its origin. In the event of your local operations being subject to catastrophic failure (e.g. fibre break, fire, flood) internal or external malicious attack, service to your Internet community outside the local region is unaffected, and can remain functioning at normal levels.
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Challenges that can be met with SafestDNS™:
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Exposure to increasingly sophisticated DDOS attacks: requires greater system capacities and stronger security mechanisms to combat
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Exponential increase in traffic presents scalability and capacity challenges
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Increased expectations imposed by governmental oversight and scrutiny as the importance of the Internet increases for communications, commerce and other vital interests
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Need to rapidly expand DNS resolution capabilities and footprint
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Budgetary and operational considerations associated with the exponential growth in DNS traffic
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Increased demands on internal human and technological resources
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Increased Security, Stability, Performance, Quality of Service and Scalability
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For customers, this means:
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Resistance to DDOS attacks. The SafestDNS™ cloud is guaranteed an uptime of 99,999%
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Increase in overall performance. If one server goes down, the load is shifted over the remaining servers.
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Faster DNS response times. A query goes to the nearest name server that appears closest to the querying name server.
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For more information, please also see:
How to activate SafestDNS™
SafestDNS™ Technology Facsheet
ICANN Factsheet: Root Server attack on 6 February 2007
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How to activate SafestDNS™
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You will need to ensure that CName, AName and MX Fields in the for a domain name have been populated in your Customer Panel account for at least 24 hours before switching to SafestDNS™. If your DNS Records for the domain name in your Customer Panel account is not yet populated please follow these steps:
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Login to your account at the Customer Panel
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Select “Edit DNS Records” & search for the required domain name
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Click on the link for the required domain name
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Fill in the CName, AName and MX with the currently resolving data for the required domain name
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Save, Logout and wait for 24 hours
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Repeat steps a) to c)
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Fill in the CName, AName and MX with the Safest DNS Data (which would be provided to you after signup). Save & Logout
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NOTE: If your DNS Records for the domain name in your Customer Panel account has already been populated for 24 hours or more, please begin with step f)
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SafestDNS™ - Technology Factsheet
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The technology found in SafestDNS™ was originally designed with high levels of security in mind, working to military grade specifications. When delivering DNS resolution services to provide for a resilient Internet, especially when protecting customers from the malicious community, both security and speed of response matter!
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Capacity:
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Fully SafestDNS™ Clouds operating in more than 20 locations around the world
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505 Billion queries per day and growing!
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Security:
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256 bit AES Encryption for both transmission and storage of data
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Service Level Agreement:
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99.999% SLA support. SafestDNS™ SLA gives 99.999% uptime (has been 100% since 1996), customisable reverse IP lookup and offers significant cost benefits obtained from economies of scale and community participation
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Speed:
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SafestDNS™ is over 8 to 10 times faster than traditional DNS platforms
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SafestDNS™ database is 11.447 times faster on reads and 3.895 times faster on writes than Oracle’s (fastest) Berkeley database at 11 million transactions per second.
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Designed to supplement existing DNS services, loading the Secondary/Slave DNS servers at 26,000 names per second
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Resolution rate less than 1 millisecond with optimized network routing
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3 second update time to the Safest DNS global constellation wherever it is located
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Fast disaster recovery of 1 million+ names per minute database reload
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Supports:
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Standard Interfaces - IXFR (with or without TSIG) and FTP over VPN
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IPv4, IPv6 and DNSSEC including NSEC3
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All recognized Standard Resource Record Types both standard and non-standard (like ENUM)
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Also see: ICANN Factsheet: Root Server attack on 6 February 2007
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