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Bagram, formerly the site of the largest US military base in Afghanistan.
Over the past few weeks, the Taliban have taken control of substantially the
whole of Afghanistan, with just Kabul
Airport and
the Panjshir Valley presently
controlled by the US Military and the National Resistance Front of
Afghanistan
respectively.
Yet the situation with Afghanistan’s internet infrastructure is quite different
to what anyone following the mainstream media might reasonably expect, as
Afghanistan’s key internet resources – domains, IP addresses, routing and
government communications – are controlled by a diverse set of entities subject
to Western jurisdictions.
Who is in control of the .af domain?
Presently, .af‘s DNS is run using Anycast DNS
services
from Packet Clearing House, a San Francisco based
not-for-profit organisation, and Gransy, a Czech
registrar and registry services provider. Packet Clearing House provides free
Anycast DNS services to
“developing-country ccTLD registries”, and Gransy provides free Anycast DNS
services to ccTLDs with fewer than
10,000 domains – .af has around 6K domains and is well within Gransy’s
criteria for a free service.
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