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Europe and Middle East Institutional
SIDN Labs and the research platform behind a national domain registry
SIDN Labs occupies an unusual position between academic inquiry and the live operation of the Netherlands’ `.nl` domain ecosystem. Its importance comes from converting registry, DNS, routing and time-service visibility into measurements, prototypes and standards work, while its…
Global Institutional
Let's Encrypt's 2020 CAA bug made DNS authorization rechecking an accountability test
Certificate issuance is not only a cryptographic event. It is also a DNS authorization event. The 2020 Let's Encrypt CAA rechecking bug showed why that distinction matters. A certificate authority can validate that a subscriber controls a domain name, reuse that validation for a…
Leaders
Keyur Patel and the BGP Model Work Behind Routing Operations
The Internet depends on routing systems that decide how networks exchange reachability, or the information that says which network can carry traffic to which destination. Keyur Patel's public record connects that operating layer to two kinds of evidence: standards work on Border…
North America Institutional
Kodiak Networks and the Visible Cost of AS63209 Routing Continuity
Kodiak Networks and the Visible Cost of AS63209 Routing Continuity intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow. The…
Global Institutional
The 2019 DNS Tampering Alerts Made Registrar Change Control an Accountability Test
The 2019 alerts showed that DNS security ultimately depends on who can authorize, publish, observe and reverse changes to the infrastructure that turns a familiar domain name into a reachable service.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Ishikari City and 11 companies launch data-centre consortium
The new group will coordinate power, communications, disaster planning, and workforce development across Ishikari’s growing data-centre cluster.
Europe and Middle East Regional ISP
IIJ Europe's European Network Handoff Is Visible, but Its Physical Boundaries Are Not
IIJ Europe helps businesses connect their internal networks to Internet backbone services across Europe. Its public pages say it helps customers choose, implement and operate network services, while a 2018 IIJ Group announcement described dedicated connections from London…
Asia-Pacific Datacenter
Sunway Construction wins RM1.02bn Johor data-centre fit-out
Sunway Construction will deliver a RM1.02 billion MEP fit-out for an unnamed US technology company’s data centre in Johor.
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom
CANTV AS8048 route leaks made export policy a Venezuelan connectivity accountability test
CANTV AS8048 route leaks made export policy a Venezuelan connectivity accountability test intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
NTT DOCOMO starts Ericsson RAN Compute rollout
NTT DOCOMO is adding Ericsson baseband hardware to expand centralised RAN capacity while preparing for 5G Advanced services.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Sparkle, University of Genoa launch submarine cable course
Sparkle, the University of Genoa and the SubOptic Foundation have launched a postgraduate programme dedicated to submarine cable infrastructure.
North America Institutional
Virgin Islands Public Telecommunications System's .VI Registry Control Surface: DNS, RDAP, Record Accuracy, and Continuity Costs
Every website and email address ending in `.vi` depends on public authority records and running services staying aligned. Virgin Islands Public Telecommunications System, Inc. (VIPTS) is the company the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) names as manager of `.VI`, the…
Global Cloud Services
The 2025 DDoS Mitigation Leak Made BGP Role Boundaries an Accountability Test
The 2025 DDoS Mitigation Leak Made BGP Role Boundaries an Accountability Test intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may…
Leaders
Jan Kayser and the Operational Trade-Offs Behind LINX's Route-Server Observability Migration
Internet exchanges are places where networks connect directly, a practice called peering; transit is paid upstream connectivity. Route servers help operators share reachability information efficiently, while a looking glass lets engineers inspect that routing view without…
Africa National Telecom
Angola Cables' 2023 Route Leak Made Path Validation an Accountability Test
Angola Cables' 2023 Route Leak Made Path Validation an Accountability Test intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may…
Global National Telecom
Vodafone Idea's 2021 Route Leak Made Upstream Filtering an Accountability Test
Vodafone Idea's 2021 Route Leak Made Upstream Filtering an Accountability Test intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may…
Asia-Pacific Institutional
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China's .icbc Control Plane: DNS Traffic, RDAP, and the Cost of Operating a Brand Registry
Public delegation, contract, DNSSEC, RDAP, monthly reporting, and company records show why even a one-domain brand registry carries recurring control and continuity costs.
Leaders
Kyle Spencer and the Route-Server Continuity Decisions Behind UIXP's Multi-Site Growth
Kyle Spencer's signed operating reports for the Uganda Internet eXchange Point show how an exchange can turn routing constraints, site diversity, and content-service disruption into bounded continuity decisions rather than broad claims of resilience.
Global Cloud Services
Cloudflare's 2024 1.1.1.1 Incident Made Route Propagation an Accountability Test
Cloudflare's June 2024 1.1.1.1 incident showed that address records, route-origin authorization, transit policy, blackhole controls and public route observations protect different parts of reachability. Accountability begins with the routes that running networks accepted and…
Asia-Pacific Institutional
Beijing RITT-Net and the .手机 Registry Control Plane: DNSSEC, RDAP, and Continuity Costs
Public delegation, contract, DNSSEC, RDAP, and operator records show how the `.手机` registry depends on precise state, reliable interfaces, and recoverable operational control.