Sponsors

The RIPE NCC is an independent, not-for-profit membership organisation that supports the infrastructure of the Internet. The most prominent activity of the RIPE NCC is to act as a Regional Internet Registry (RIR) providing Internet number resources and related services to a current membership base of around 10,200 members in over 75 countries. These members consist mainly of Internet Service Providers (ISPs), telecommunication organisations and large corporations located in Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia.The RIPE NCC also provides a range of technical and coordination services and supports the global Internet community by providing data, expertise and a neutral platform for the exchange of ideas.

MSK-IX is a neutral organization that supports high-speed switching platform, provides services for effective peering, consultations of experienced network engineers and invites to an open club of professionals.

MSK-IX accelerates communication between Internet companies by providing a neutral Internet eXchange platform for the exchange of IP peering and a global distributed network of DNS servers to support root domain zones. Many companies around the globe use MSK-IX services for development and network connectivity. Among them there are Telecom operators, social networks, search engines, video portals, cloud service providers, scientific and educational networks which are connected to MSK-IX.

MSK-IX today is: 10 cities, 500 participants, 41 locations, 18 DNS PoPs, supports traffic of 2,8 Tbit/s, ports up to 100 Gbit/s.

Netnod is a non-profit Internet infrastructure organisation. Netnod manages Internet exchange points (IXPs) in five cities in Sweden. Netnod offers DNS anycast & unicast slave services to TLDs worldwide and is the proud operator of i.root-servers.net, one of 13 logical DNS root name servers in the world.

The Technical Centre of Internet (TCI) is Russia’s largest highly professional technical centre. It specialises in supporting the DNS-infrastructure of the Russian Internet and interaction with accredited registrars. As a critical part of the Russian Internet infrastructure, TCI with the DNS node system it maintains is an independent entity that ensures the effective and uninterrupted operation of the domain addressing system. TCI provides technical support for the main registry and registration systems of ccTLDs .RU, .РФ, .SU, .ДЕТИ, .TATAR.

Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ is a registry for the country code top level domains .RU and .РФ (national ccTLD registry). CC for TLD .RU/.РФ has a mandate to develop terms and conditions for the registration of domain names in ccTLDs .RU and .РФ. It provides accreditation of registrars and development of prospective projects connected with the evolution of Russian top level domains.