VeriSign, the firm that owns the .com and .net domain names, has launched a major new initiative today to expand its technical capabilities by ten times over the next three years.
The intelligent infrastructure company aims to increase its daily Domain Name System query capacity from 400 billion queries a day to more than four trillion by 2010, while it will also boost its resolution systems' bandwidth from 20 gigabits per cent to 200 per cent.
Such changes should provide greater redundancy and reduced latency, meaning that traffic bottlenecks will be avoided and individual users' speed increased.
"With the emergence of consumer-driven services and the surge in web-ready wireless devices, the internet we know today is radically different than the one we knew just five years ago," said Stratton Sclavos, chief executive of VeriSign.
"We must make sure that VeriSign's infrastructure is ready to support a new era of the internet, the Any Era, where billions of users demand anywhere, anytime, any device access to communications, information and entertainment."
Over the next three years, VeriSign predicts that the number of web users will double to 1.8 billion and most of the world's two billion mobile phones will have internet capabilities.
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