VeriSign CEO Stratton Sclavos announced during his RSA 2007 keynote that the company will invest over $100 million to increase its DNS query capacity from 400 billion to 4 trillion per day. The initiative is code named Project Titan. Rich Miller at Data Center Knowledge reports that it will expand VeriSign's presence from 20 regional centers around the world to 100+, and scale connectivity to its resolutions systems from 20Gbps to 200Gbps.
The interesting thing is, VeriSign currently handles just 24 billion queries per day, which means it should have available capacity for 376 billion additional queries? And according to the New York Times, VeriSign expects the Internet user population to increase no more than 2x (from 1 billion to 1.8 billion) by Project Titan's completion in 2010. But ZDNet's Dan Farber says VeriSign's DNS infrastructure will also have to support 2 billion cell phone/PDAs, 63 million IPTV users and 34 million VoIP households by 2010.
In other news, the nation of Hackistan claims responsibility for Tuesday's attack which nearly took down 3 of the Internet's 13 root servers (VeriSign operates "A" and "J").
Well, ok. Not really. Lovely Hackistan (which I read about on Business 2.0's Dawn Patrol blog) is a figment of Fortify Software's imagination. The really funny marketing campaign drew huge crowds at Fortify's RSA booth. In addition, it's inspired a 150% increase in attacks on Fortify's website. You should check it out!
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