Cesidian Root

The Cesidian Root is an independent root (or Internet) started by the President of the Fifth World Council on 30 September 2005, and for the benefit of Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Worlders who wish to utilise this resource for reasons of independence and/or national security. VIPs and DNS technicians also utilise this root for the same or similar reasons, and we hope to provide our services to jurisdictions worldwide in the future as well.

The Cesidian Root later became a full-fledged root on 23 November 2005, and on 11 January 2006 it became a complete Internet. On 8 March 2006, the Cesidian Root became an Intercontinental Internet, now using root servers on the European (3) and North American (3) continents.

The Cesidian Root now resolves not one, but 6 or more roots: ICANN root (281 TLDs), Cesidian Root proper (38 TLDs), China MII Root (5 TLDs), Arabic GCC Root (4 TLDs), i-DNS.net Root (19 TLDs), and other roots (15 TLDs). It currently resolves the entire ICANN namespace of 281 TLDs as well as 81 additional TLDs: 5wc, amomu, amore, ant, baron, beasley, blah, bu, bucksfan, bucrafan, c4, cesidio, core, cuseeme, cw, devel, develop, df, dnscloset, free, god, hack, hosted, ili, island, islands, ispsp, italiana, lowtek, midnightconsulting, mosimos, pic, pirates, satan, savoia, seeit, sel, seo, src, state, tabarnak, tallini, tlds, ttf, ucann2, ucs, um, ummoa, university, wacht, wild, xn--3rc8e2bb9h, xn--55qw42g, xn--55qx5d, xn--81b8b9a9c, xn--90ae, xn--c1avg, xn--e1apq, xn--e1ay, xn--fiqs8s, xn--g2b9a1a, xn--h1akdx, xn--i1b6b7e, xn--io0a7i, xn--j1aef, xn--mgbaam7a8h, xn--mgberp4a5d4ar, xn--p1ag, xn--p1ai, xn--pgbs0dh, xn--qlc9a5a, xn--u1aaa, xn--usc8b9a, xn--uscn1bv9bh3h, xn--vf4b131b, xn--wgbl6a, xn--zb0bnw, xn--zfr164b, xn--zv4b74y, and zones.

The Cesidian Root was started because problems were discovered with the Public-Root, problems that lead us to believe that the root was not safe, nor was the future of this root entirely assured. The President of the Fifth World Council held not one, but 10 Top-Level Domains (TLDs) that depended on the services of this root, and these TLDs at this point in time required another root for their services.

After discovering that another root that was forming in the wake of the Public-Root collapse was no more reliable than the Public-Root itself, the President of the Fifth World Council and Massimiliano Mastrocinque, a brilliant Italian IT, started the Cesidian Root. Later Karin & Peter Dambier joined the team with their eclectic IT skills.

At the moment the Cesidian Root employs five servers (root nameservers) in Europe, and three in the U.S. We also have email services in the Cesidian Root.

More information about the Cesidian Root is available at this wiki article: http://www.wikinfo.org/index.php/Cesidian_Root.

Uncle Sid Wants YOU!
No, I don't want you for my army. Our army is already extremely powerful! ;-) What "Uncle Sid" needs is volunteers to come forward to run a server. While we could use secondary root servers, even a humble Windows server, and a simple 256 KB ADSL line would be fine to activate a DNS resolver. To run a server you'll need at least:

• 1 spare UNIX, Linux, or Windows server
• 1 ADSL 256 KB line
• 1 available IP number
• Knowledge about UNIX, Linux, or Windows Servers
• Knowledge about DNS
  

If you wish to help build the Cesidian Root into a reliable root server system, let us know by clinking the the EMAIL button at the bottom of this page, and sending the email to the Cesidian Root building.