NIC Chile informs that a new dedicated server providing DNS service for .CL domain names is now in operation. Located in Culpeper (Virginia, USA), it belongs to an anycast cloud under direct control of NIC Chile. The server is hosted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization in charge of root DNS administration.

In this way, the network of servers for .CL which NIC Chile manages directly, is now present in 4 regions outside of Chile: Europe (Czech Republic and Denmark), North America (USA and Mexico), South America (Brazil and Peru) and Asia (Taiwan); in addition to 10 nodes distributed over 3 cities in Chile, that cover almost all the domestic internet service providers (ISP).

Additional DNS service for .CL are provided by agreements and contracts with prestigious external organizations, such as ISC, NETNOD (Autonomica) and Packet Clearing House.

With the operation of this new nameserver, NIC Chile continues to improve the robustness and response time of the network of servers that resolve domain names for .CL worldwide.

See .CL nameservers map (in spanish).

NIC Chile
Santiago, july 21 2011.

NIC Chile, a center of the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the University of Chile, is in charge of administering the domain name registry of .CL, that identifies Chile in the Internet. In this role, it is responsible before the local and global Internet community for its secure and efficient operation, to allow persons, enterprises and institutions to build their identity on the Internet, under.CL.