We describe the results of a large-scale study of third-party dependencies around the world
based on regional top-500 popular websites accessed from vantage points in 50 countries …

Recent studies have shown centralization in the Domain Name System (DNS) around public
DNS services, which are hosted on centrally managed infrastructure and advertise higher …

The centralization of the global DNS ecosystem may accelerate the creation of an oligopoly
market, thereby, increasing the risk of a single point of failure and network traffic …

The Domain Name System (DNS) service is one of the pillars of the Internet. This service
allows users to access websites on the Internet through easy-to-remember domain names …

Although the Internet continues to grow, it increasingly depends on a small set of dominant
service providers for Domain Name System (DNS) hosting and web hosting providers. This …

Businesses increasingly outsource their ICT services to cloud environments, mostly driven
by considerations about costs, processes and security. However concerns around cloud …

We present the first large-scale analysis of the adoption of third-party serving infrastructures
in government digital services. Drawing from data collected across 61 countries spanning …

Centralization of Internet‐based services in a few key players has been a topic of study in
recent years. One of such services, the domain name system (DNS), is one of the pillars of …

Many network services are provided by third-party providers, eg name resolution, content
hosting, certificate authorities. Dependence on these providers may lead to cascading …

DNS relies on domain delegation for good scalability, where domains delegate their
resolution service to authoritative nameservers. However, such delegations lead to complex …