permaDNS™ operates on a backbone with the largest and most reliable data providers in the business. Providing each DNS request with complete redundancy is what we guarantee for each of the 400 million DNS requests received on the network.

permaDNS servers are located on site at world class facilities. Each node (cluster of servers) has Internet access via a OC-12 to OC-256 connectivity to provide maximum throughput for your domain.

permaDNS uses an IP Anycast Routed DNS network to ensure one of the highest quality DNS networks worldwide. IP Anycast Routing is an industry best practice to give servers the highest possible uptime. This routing gives permaDNS servers the highest amount of uptime worldwide. This is of course what the largest web sites in the world use to keep working (ie. Google, Yahoo, Ebay, Amazon, etc.).

IP Anycast Routing gives systems: load balancing, increased reliability, decreased latency, and a true distributed response to DoS. The best part is that all of this is transparent to the client (the end user). By having multiple networks dynamically respond to the same IP you are able to increase performance and uptime.

Other DNS providers that provide the IP Anycast technology are

  Akamai
  Verisign (offers both, anycasted and non-anycasted DNS)

In depth IP Anycast Routing information is available at Carnegie Mellon University.