Abstract
There have been growing concerns about the concentration and centralization of Internet infrastructure. In this work, we scrutinize the hosting industry on the Internet by using active measurements, covering 19 Top-Level Domains (TLDs). We show how the market is heavily concentrated: 1/3 of the domains are hosted by only 5 hosting providers, all US-based companies. For the country-code TLDs (ccTLDs), however, hosting is primarily done by local, national hosting providers and not by the large American cloud and content providers. We show how shared languages (and borders) shape the hosting market — German hosting companies have a notable presence in Austrian and Swiss markets, given they all share German as official language. While hosting concentration has been relatively high and stable over the past four years, we see that American hosting companies have been continuously increasing their presence in the market related to high traffic, popular domains within ccTLDs — except for Russia, notably.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2022 |
Subtitle of host publication | Network and Service Management in the Era of Cloudification, Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence, NOMS 2022 |
Editors | Pal Varga, Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Alex Galis, Istvan Godor, Noura Limam, Prosper Chemouil, Jerome Francois, Marc-Oliver Pahl |
Pages | 1-9 |
Number of pages | 9 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-6654-0601-7 |
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Publication status | Published - 9 Jun 2022 |
Event | IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2022 - Budapest, Hungary Duration: 25 Apr 2022 → 29 Apr 2022 https://noms2022.ieee-noms.org/ |
Conference
Conference | IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2022 |
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Abbreviated title | NOMS 2022 |
Country/Territory | Hungary |
City | Budapest |
Period | 25/04/22 → 29/04/22 |
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