The recent events in Egypt that led to Egyptian websites becoming
unavailable to the world at large have seen the ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom
to suggest "that a policy to encourage the establishment of secondary
servers to promote continuity of service as well as DNS stability could
be useful and in the global public interest."
Writing on the ICANN Blog, Beckstrom says that "ICANN will ask the ccNSO
to consider proposing a policy to address this type of situation."
This proposal follows most internet connectivity to Egypt being shut
down on 27 January, "apparently on the instruction of the national
government. This has led to the inaccessibility of the main domain name
system (DNS) server of the Egyptian ccTLD (.eg)."
"The primary servers they operate have been inaccessible to those
outside of Egypt since January 27. Secondary DNS servers for .eg,
located in Austria and the United States, have continued to function
with data provided before the shutdown.
"The .مصر DNS servers are exclusively in Egypt and there do not appear
to be any secondary DNS servers outside the country. This means that
service to sites served by this top-level domain are unreachable by the
rest of the world."
For more information and to read the post by Rod Beckstrom in full, see:
blog.icann.org/2011/01/status-report-on-the-dns-in-egypt/
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