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gov.uk's traffic seems to be handled by Fastly, a well known CDN. What I'm a bit surprised / unsure of is what happens when I run "dig ns gov.uk". The results

gov.uk's traffic seems to be handled by Fastly, a well known CDN. What I'm a bit surprised / unsure of is what happens when I run "dig ns gov.uk". The results are: gov.uk. 21559 IN NS ns1.surfnet.nl. gov.uk. 21559 IN NS auth50.ns.de.uu.net. gov.uk. 21559 IN NS ns3.ja.net. gov.uk. 21559 IN NS ns2.ja.net. gov.uk. 21559 IN NS ns0.ja.net. gov.uk. 21559 IN NS auth00.ns.de.uu.net. gov.uk. 21559 IN NS ns4.ja.net. Who is ja.net , uu.net and surfnet.nl ..? EDIT: I see that ja.net i.e. jisc.ac.uk "manages the second level domain .gov.uk" -- https://www.jisc.ac.uk/domain-registry https://www.jisc.ac.uk/domain-registry . I imagine that uu.net and surfnet.nl are there for redundancy

PaywallBuster 5y ago
whois ja.net Domain Name: JA.NET Registry Domain ID: 499794_DOMAIN_NET-VRSN Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.demys.com Registrar URL: http://www.demys.com "Demys is a leading provider of corporate domain name management and an ICANN accredited registrar" whois uu.net Domain Name: UU.NET Registry Domain ID: 5486163_DOMAIN_NET-VRSN Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.markmonitor.com surfnet is just an ISP in Netherlands https://www.surf.nl/ https://www.surf.nl/
- gregsadetsky 5y ago
  Thanks Is it possible to see if/where is gov.uk using GCP or AWS for its domain zones? From what I can see -- that's not the case? Or am I looking in the wrong place?
  - PaywallBuster 5y ago
    I think you did the right query, maybe they're using it for different domain names?
sakisv 5y ago
Ah sorry, you're indeed right. Turns out it was just the .service.gov.uk domain that uses GCP and AWS - I just thought that applied to the parent domain too. $ dig NS service.gov.uk +short ns-cloud-e4.googledomains.com. ns-cloud-e3.googledomains.com. ns-cloud-e2.googledomains.com. ns-cloud-e1.googledomains.com. ns-831.awsdns-39.net. ns-1983.awsdns-55.co.uk. ns-117.awsdns-14.com. ns-1080.awsdns-07.org.

PaywallBuster 5y ago

whois ja.net Domain Name: JA.NET Registry Domain ID: 499794_DOMAIN_NET-VRSN Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.demys.com Registrar URL: http://www.demys.com "Demys is a leading provider of corporate domain name management and an ICANN accredited registrar" whois uu.net Domain Name: UU.NET Registry Domain ID: 5486163_DOMAIN_NET-VRSN Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.markmonitor.com surfnet is just an ISP in Netherlands https://www.surf.nl/ https://www.surf.nl/

gregsadetsky 5y ago
Thanks Is it possible to see if/where is gov.uk using GCP or AWS for its domain zones? From what I can see -- that's not the case? Or am I looking in the wrong place?
- PaywallBuster 5y ago
  I think you did the right query, maybe they're using it for different domain names?

sakisv 5y ago

Ah sorry, you're indeed right. Turns out it was just the .service.gov.uk domain that uses GCP and AWS - I just thought that applied to the parent domain too. $ dig NS service.gov.uk +short ns-cloud-e4.googledomains.com. ns-cloud-e3.googledomains.com. ns-cloud-e2.googledomains.com. ns-cloud-e1.googledomains.com. ns-831.awsdns-39.net. ns-1983.awsdns-55.co.uk. ns-117.awsdns-14.com. ns-1080.awsdns-07.org.