Saturday, July 18, 2009
Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: The transition of county code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) of Pakistan ‘.pk’has been successfully completed marking it as the most significant and noteworthy landmark in the internet history of the county.
A press release issued on Friday revealed that in this regard, Chairman PTA, Dr Mohammed Yaseen, visited Lahore office of PKNIC. PKNIC was the present ccTLD operator for ‘.pk’ domain. The purpose of his visit was to appraise the newly upgraded ‘.pk’ infrastructure, data centre and customer services department in Pakistan.
During the visit Chairman PTA noted that the root server mirroring for ‘.pk’ domain in Pakistan was fully operational. PKNIC had successfully implemented the root server mirroring for ‘.pk’ and tested it with all global root servers from a.root-servers.net to m.root-servers.net.
The new authoritative mirror M-2.PKNIC.NET.pk (203.128.7.123) would enable local resolution of ‘.pk’ websites. PKNIC representatives briefed the Chairman regarding mirroring techniques and provided some testing on new Domain Name Service (DNS) resolution mechanism of .pk ccTLD. Formal inauguration of new PKNIC office should be organized in August.
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