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North America Institutional
The Unisys Hostmaster Four-AS Control Surface: Registry Accuracy, Routing Continuity, and Secure Network Operations
By Theo March
North America Institutional
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.'s Brand-TLD Control Surface: Delegation, RDAP, and Continuity Across Four Namespaces
By Theo March
Global National Telecom
Shetland's 2022 Cable Outage Showed Why Physical Redundancy Must Be Usable
Shetland appeared to have the basic shape of resilience: a subsea fibre path south through Orkney to mainland Scotland and another path north toward the Faroe Islands. In October 2022, the northern path developed trouble first. When the southern path was damaged days later, much…
Leaders
Mark Erskine and Host Depot: From Internet Access to Hosting Automation and Durable Network Identity
Mark Erskine and Host Depot: From Internet Access to Hosting Automation and Durable Network Identity intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure…
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services
AMS-IX NOC's Peering Control Surface: Route-Server Filters, Maintenance, and Operator Boundaries
By Theo March
Leaders
Ilya Vagner and Megared: How a Local IXP Changed the Cost and Reach of Connectivity in Las Toninas
Ilya Vagner and Megared: How a Local IXP Changed the Cost and Reach of Connectivity in Las Toninas intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure…
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services
VeriSign Sarl's IDN Registry Control Surface: Delegation, RDAP, and Change Obligations Across Script Variants
By Theo March
Global National Telecom
KDDI's 61-Hour Mobile Outage Made Router Change Control an Accountability Test
A routing error that lasted roughly fifteen minutes should not be confused with the outage it initiated. In July 2022, KDDI reverted an incorrect route setting, yet millions of voice and data users remained affected while signalling retries congested VoLTE nodes, overloaded the…
Leaders
María Teresa Montaño Vélez and VisionNet: A Decade of Internet Service and Regulatory Continuity in Southern Ecuador
María Teresa Montaño Vélez and VisionNet: A Decade of Internet Service and Regulatory Continuity in Southern Ecuador intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the…
North America Cloud Services
Dog Beach's Registry Change Surface: The Cost of Operating Separate TLD Obligations on Shared Infrastructure
Dog Beach, LLC is the company examined here. Current IANA delegation records identify it as the sponsoring organisation for a sample of twelve generic top-level domains, while the corresponding ICANN agreement pages identify it as registry operator. The records show a…
Latin America and Caribbean Regional ISP
AS270453 Makes 4TELECOM's Dual-Stack Footprint Visible, but Not Its Coastal Delivery Boundary
AS270453 Makes 4TELECOM's Dual-Stack Footprint Visible, but Not Its Coastal Delivery Boundary intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure…
North America Cloud Services
Binky Moon's Shared Registry Control Plane: The Cost of Standardising Change Across Many TLDs
Binky Moon, LLC is the company examined here. Current IANA delegation records identify it as the sponsoring organisation for a sample of twelve generic top-level domains, while corresponding ICANN pages identify it as the registry operator under twelve separate agreements. This…
Leaders
Luis Aníbal Quimbita Panchi and SISCOM: A Regulated ISP, a University Partnership, and Network Stewardship in Cotopaxi
Ecuador's public record presents Luis Aníbal Quimbita Panchi through three unusually concrete lenses: a telecommunications title renewed after regulatory review, a signed university agreement that names his institutional role at a specific date, and a registered autonomous-system…
North America Cloud Services
XYZ.COM's Registry Portfolio Under Load: The Operator Work Behind DNSSEC, RDAP and Abuse Controls
XYZ.COM LLC is the company examined here. Public IANA delegation records and ICANN registry-agreement pages identify the operator across a sampled multi-TLD portfolio, while the registry website exposes policy, WHOIS, privacy, terms and abuse-contact surfaces. This article…
Leaders
César Vega and I-TIC: From Internet Access Licensing to Multi-Service Connectivity
Two official ENACOM decisions, six years apart, document a careful regulatory sequence: César Augusto Vega received an internet-access licence in 2017, then requested and obtained registration for an additional subscription-broadcasting service in 2023. Current I-TIC and exchange…
Latin America and Caribbean Regional ISP
AS264876 Makes 5GTELECOM's Dual-Stack Identity Visible but Not Its Delivery Boundary
AS264876 Makes 5GTELECOM's Dual-Stack Identity Visible but Not Its Delivery Boundary intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Vodafone Portugal's 2022 Core-Network Recovery Made Telecom Resilience Evidence an Accountability Test
When Vodafone Portugal's network failed on 7 February 2022, recovery moved backward through mobile generations before it moved forward. Voice returned over 2G. Mobile data returned over 3G. Teams then restored 4G and 5G while fixed voice, television, SMS, customer care and…
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services
ShortDot's Multi-TLD Registry Test: What Abuse Controls and Outsourced DNS Leave to Operators
Shortdot SA is the company examined here. Its public materials describe a portfolio of generic top-level domains and a registry-services business, while IANA delegation records and ICANN agreement pages establish a narrower set of current operator and technical-contact facts.…
Leaders
Héctor Mena’s Network-Visibility Playbook: From TECMESH to ECUAPEER
A close reading of Ecuador’s regulatory record shows how Héctor Mena’s work moved through authorization, compliance repair, traffic visibility, company-level carrier obligations and, later, a carefully bounded piece of coauthored API-security research.
Europe and Middle East Institutional
Belnet's 2021 DDoS Outage Made Shared Public-Network Resilience an Accountability Test
When a large distributed denial-of-service attack reached Belnet in May 2021, the effects did not stop at an operator status page. Government websites became difficult or impossible to reach, parliamentary work was interrupted, students and public employees lost remote access…