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PKNIC (Pakistan’s official .PK country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) authority and operator) and COMSATS Internet Services (CIS) have mutually collaborated to place additional mirror servers of the authoritative root DNS server in the CIS data center infrastructure within Pakistan. This major development between CIS and PKNIC took place after the establishment of a Gold Channel Partnership relationship.

The server mirroring strategy comes with following major advantages:

1- Redundancy
2- Fault tolerance
3- Back-up provisioning

PKNIC initiated the mirroring strategy a few years ago. In collaboration with CIS, the users within Pakistan will get some pivotal benefits since the new mirror will enhance local resolution of .PK websites.

Statements of key representatives

While sharing his thoughts about the development, CEO of CIS Amir Malik stated:

“We are delighted to be working closely with PKNIC as strategic channel partners to augment .PK domain name services root servers. Through the collaboration and relationship between CIS and PKNIC, we will enable and implement additional mirroring of the Authoritative root DNS server to a local CIS server”

Talking about the goals of the development, he said:

“Our goal is to support PKNIC’s efforts to continually improve customer experience of Pakistani Internet users, by adding more edge network locations for .PK domains. CIS infrastructure will contribute to further enhance the capacity, persistence and availability of the .PK root server systems”

The management team of PKNIC welcomed the development while stating:

“PKNIC is building on its nearly 25 years of secure management of the .PK ccTLD for Pakistan. As more and more Pakistani Internet users, entrepreneurs, and organizations use .PK domain names we continue to enhance our network and globally distributed systems. Working with reliable strategic channel partners and industry players like CIS, we are happy to add new mirror server capabilities within Pakistan, to enhance service resiliency and reliability of the .PK industry and ecosystem”