CZ.NIC bolsters its .CZ DNS anycast by launching a new site in Los Angeles

This continues the Czech national domain administrator’s expansion of its own DNS infrastructure worldwide and strengthening of the robustness of its DNS anycast. Outside the Czech Republic, CZ.NIC has DNS nodes in 14 countries around the world.

In cooperation with ICANN, the Czech national domain administrator has launched a new foreign DNS site in Los Angeles, USA. This is the second DNS site on the West Coast of the United States: since 2020, the CZ.NIC Association also has servers in Seattle. This continues the Czech national domain administrator’s expansion of its own DNS infrastructure worldwide and strengthening of the robustness of its DNS anycast. Outside the Czech Republic, CZ.NIC has DNS nodes in 14 countries around the world.

“With the new DNS site in Los Angeles, we are improving our coverage of the U.S. West Coast and reducing latency in this area. The site complements the Seattle node, which we have been operating since 2020, and its establishment has further increased the overall capacity of anycast in the USA, which is a country with very significant DNS traffic both to the .CZ domain as well as to partner domains hosted by the Association on its DNS anycast,” said Tomáš Hála, IT Director of CZ.NIC.

In addition to the three locations in the Czech Republic, CZ.NIC servers are operated in 14 other countries. In Europe, the nodes are located in Austria (Vienna), Germany (Frankfurt am Main), the United Kingdom (London), Sweden (Stockholm), Italy (Milan), Slovakia (Bratislava) and Ukraine (Kiev). In the US, the Association operates two nodes in Reston (in cooperation with ICANN) and, from 2021, in the LINX NoVA peering center; another, more powerful node is located on the West Coast (Seattle). In Australia it is the Sydney DNS node and in South America it is Brazil (São Paulo) and Chile (Santiago de Chile). In Asia, the Association operates DNS servers in Japan (Tokyo) and also in Singapore (Singapore). Last spring, the first site on the African continent was established in Johannesburg, South Africa.