SLA monitoring

ICANN (glossary)ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers The nonprofit that coordinates the global DNS and gTLD policy. Full definition of ICANN's constant checking of whether gTLD (glossary)gTLD generic top-level domain A top-level domain not tied to a country, run under ICANN contracts. Full definition of gTLD registries (glossary)registry The central database and system of a top-level domain, or loosely the organization that runs it. Full definition of registry meet the service levels in their contract, for example that DNS (glossary)DNS Domain Name System The internet's directory that links domain names to computer addresses. Full definition of DNS, registration data (glossary)registration data The information kept about a domain and its owner. Full definition of registration data services and EPP (glossary)EPP Extensible Provisioning Protocol The protocol registrars use to manage domain names at registries. Full definition of EPP are reachable and fast enough. Test points around the world take the measurements. Long outages trigger alerts and can lead to emergency measures.