Wednesday, 23 June 2010

Manama, Bahrain: 2Connect and Netnod/Autonomica have today announced that an instance of i-root-servers.net has been installed in one of 2Connect’s Bahrain data centres. This is the first DNS root server in Bahrain, which will contribute to the reliability and redundancy in DNS services to Internet users in Bahrain and surrounding regions.

Thanks to the successful cooperation between 2Connect and Netnod has the installation of i.root-servers.net been possible. This is the second time that i.root-servers.net has been deployed in the GCC, the first one was installed in Doha, Qatar approximately two years ago.

Shaikh Mohammed bin Essa Al Khalifa, Chief Executive of the Economic Development Board, commented, “Bahrain has played a pioneering role in the development of the information technology and telecommunications industry in the Gulf and today boasts of one of the most dynamic and deregulated telecom markets in the region.

“The TRA has played a key...