Fwd: [BSA] How to make the Internet DNS green

[Nicolas Adam]

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Subject: 	[BSA] How to make the Internet DNS green
Date: 	Mon, 9 Jan 2012 15:51:36 -0500
From: 	Bill St. Arnaud <noreply at greenstarnetwork.com>
To: 	nickolas.adam at gmail.com



[The Dutch Internet registry SIDN has launched a unique program in
partnership with CleanBits to identify what proportion of .nl domain
names were hosted on a green or CO2-neutral basis. The results show a
strong trend towards the ‘greening’ of the .nl internet zone.
Nearly 30 per cent of .nl names were found to have green hosts. That
is more than twice the percentage identified in a 2009 survey, which
revealed that 11% of the .nl zone was green-hosted. To be counted as
green, a host had to use only green energy, or offset its CO2
emissions.

The Domain Name Systems is probably one of the most critical
components of the global Internet, and yet one that could easily be
made truly green by moving DNS servers to follow the wind/follow the
sun architectures such as Greenstar. Because DNS relies extensively on
local caching, as well as primary and secondary servers, it is an
Internet application that could be easily adapted to this type of
architecture. A typical DNS zone may process millions of DNS queries
per hour representing, in aggregate, thousands of kilowatt hours and
potential CO2 emissions.

The recent work undertaken by the Greenstar project could easily
quantify these CO2 emissions and possibly someday make them eligible
for cash offsets in the various voluntary markets .—BSA]

For more information please see:

SIDN and Cleanbits

https://www.sidn.nl/en/news/news/article/number-of-green-hosted-nl-domain-names-has-more-than-doubled/

Greenstar Follow the Wind/Follow the Sun

http://www.greenstarnetwork.com/

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email: Bill.St.Arnaud at gmail.com

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