📅 - Providing increased resilience and performance to the domain name system in Montenegro, the .ME Registry is placing F-root servers at its data center in Podgorica, Montenegro, as a result of a partnership with non-profit, open-source Internet software provider the Internet Systems Consortium (isc.org), and Internet infrastructure services provider Afilias Limited (www.afilias.info).
"Having an F-root name server located in Podgorica provides improved response times and enhanced resiliency within the DNS infrastructure for all Internet users in Montenegro and the region," .ME Registry chief technology officer Željko DraškoviÄ
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