Empowering Your gTLD Application
With our extensive support of TLDs/ccTLDs and long-time experience in:
DNSSEC
IPv6
IDNs
Technology and Operation Capacity
Security
Comprehensive Monitoring and Support
CommunityDNS is ready to assist with your new gTLD's success.
CommunityDNS supports all three flavors of DNSSEC (NSEC, NSEC3 and NSEC3 with OptOut). In 2004, 2005 and 2007 CommunityDNS participated in DNSSEC testbed initiatives with TLDs. CommunityDNS has always supported NSEC as the platform was developed to incorporate NSEC. When NSEC3 was ratified in March 2008 CommunityDNS was NSEC3 compliant shortly thereafter. Understanding the value NSEC3 with OptOut has for TLDs, CommunityDNS became compliant with NSEC3 with OptOut also in March 2008.
CommunityDNS is experienced in signing zones for domain names and TLDs/ccTLDs. CommunityDNS also easily out performs BIND and NSD platforms in handling unsigned and signed zones from small to very large.
| Standard | RFC | Status | When |
| NSEC | 4033 4034 4035 |
Fully Compliant | Incorporated in platform's initial design |
| NSEC3 | 5155 | Fully Compliant | March 2008 |
| NSEC3 with OptOut | 5155 | Fully Compliant | March 2008 |
For more information: Learn more at DNSSEC
CommunityDNS’ platform was initially designed to support IPv6 addressing so is thus native IPv4 and IPv6 compliant.
CommunityDNS has already been supporting second-level IDN support for registries for several years prior to IDNs being allowed into the Root.
Having provided global DNS Anycast operations since 1996 with 100% uptime, CommunityDNS provides DNS support for over 142,000,000 names with a global network consisting of 41 points of presence across 5 continents.
CommunityDNS' platform can successfully support 500,000,000 domain names, and has easily handled traffic spikes as large as processing 1.6 million queries per second. CommunityDNS also absorbs additional queries where other DNS platforms strain or fail from high traffic loads.
Using full clustering technology, CommunityDNS maximizes resilience multiple processes and functions spanning multiple continents for complete redundancy.
CommunityDNS is fully compliant with all RFCs necessary to meet the requirements for your new gTLD application needs.
| RFC | Status |
| 1034 | Compliant |
| 1035 | Compliant |
| 1982 | Compliant |
| 2181 | Compliant |
| 2182 | Compliant |
| 2671 | Compliant |
| 3226 | Compliant |
| 3596 | Compliant |
| RFC | Status |
| 3597 | Compliant |
| 3901 | Compliant |
| 4033 | Compliant |
| 4034 | Compliant |
| 4035 | Compliant |
| 4343 | Compliant |
| 4472 | Compliant |
| 5155 | Compliant |
To believe in true resilience means incorporating security throughout your entire network as well as practices. CommunityDNS' platform was designed and built to exceed hardened military specifications. If you wish to learn more about the lengths to which CommunityDNS applies security
As noted from our customers, CommunityDNS' monitoring platform is exceedingly accurate and is a valuable tool when compared to other monitoring tools.
With offices in the US, UK and Japan, providing 24 x 7 x 365 support is easy.
With a record of 100% uptime since 1996, CommunityDNS' SLA of 99.999% uptime is easy to attain.