{"id":227795,"date":"2017-09-05T11:16:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T09:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=227795"},"modified":"2017-09-05T11:18:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T09:18:15","slug":"teraco-sponsors-root-name-server-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/227795-teraco-sponsors-root-name-server-operators.html","title":{"rendered":"Teraco sponsors root name server operators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teraco has stated it will sponsor colocation infrastructure to all 13 global root operators.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In sponsoring colocation infrastructure, we hope to increase the number of root operators available within the continent,&#8221; said Teraco.<\/p>\n<p>The company said root operators are not widely understood, but are a critical part of Internet infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Root operators run\u00a0name servers for the root zone of the Domain Name System.\u00a0These servers are the first step in translating, or resolving, a human readable web address into the IP addresses that computers use to communicate with one another.<\/p>\n<p>A root name server\u00a0directly answers requests for records in the root zone and answers other requests by returning a list of the authoritative name servers for the appropriate top-level domain.<\/p>\n<p>Teraco has invited all root operators to join it in its mission to &#8220;build strong digital communities&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are especially hoping that root operators such as Packet Clearing House, an organisation responsible for providing operational support and security to critical Internet infrastructure, will join the Teraco community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/204408-behind-the-scenes-photos-of-data-centre-under-construction-at-teraco.html\">Behind-the-scenes photos of data centre under construction at Teraco<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teraco is sponsoring colocation infrastructure to all 13 global root operators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":145117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[10028,45835,45833,38978,441],"class_list":["post-227795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-andrew-owens","tag-domain-name-system","tag-packet-clearing-house","tag-root","tag-teraco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227805,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227795\/revisions\/227805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}