Hosting Industry Centralization and Consolidation

Luciano Zembruzki; Raffaele Sommese; Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville; Arthur Selle Jabocs; Mattijs Jonker; Giovane Moura

doi:10.1109/NOMS54207.2022.9789881

Hosting Industry Centralization and Consolidation

Luciano Zembruzki, Raffaele Sommese, Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Arthur Selle Jabocs, Mattijs Jonker, Giovane Moura

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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
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
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS54207.2022.9789881
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/

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Conference	IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2022
Abbreviated title	NOMS 2022
Country/Territory	Hungary
City	Budapest
Period	25/04/22 → 29/04/22
Internet address	https://noms2022.ieee-noms.org/

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Hosting Industry Centralization and Consolidation
Zembruzki, L., Sommese, R., Granville, L. Z., Jacobs, A. S., Jonker, M. & Moura, G. C. M., 2 Sept 2021, ArXiv.org.
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Zembruzki, L., Sommese, R., Granville, L. Z., Selle Jabocs, A., Jonker, M., & Moura, G. (2022). Hosting Industry Centralization and Consolidation. In P. Varga, L. Z. Granville, A. Galis, I. Godor, N. Limam, P. Chemouil, J. Francois, & M.-O. Pahl (Eds.), Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2022: Network and Service Management in the Era of Cloudification, Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence, NOMS 2022 (pp. 1-9) https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS54207.2022.9789881

Zembruzki, Luciano ; Sommese, Raffaele ; Granville, Lisandro Zambenedetti et al. / Hosting Industry Centralization and Consolidation. Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2022: Network and Service Management in the Era of Cloudification, Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence, NOMS 2022. editor / Pal Varga ; Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville ; Alex Galis ; Istvan Godor ; Noura Limam ; Prosper Chemouil ; Jerome Francois ; Marc-Oliver Pahl. 2022. pp. 1-9

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Zembruzki, L, Sommese, R, Granville, LZ, Selle Jabocs, A, Jonker, M & Moura, G 2022, Hosting Industry Centralization and Consolidation. in P Varga, LZ Granville, A Galis, I Godor, N Limam, P Chemouil, J Francois & M-O Pahl (eds), Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2022: Network and Service Management in the Era of Cloudification, Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence, NOMS 2022. pp. 1-9, IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2022, Budapest, Hungary, 25/04/22. https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS54207.2022.9789881

Hosting Industry Centralization and Consolidation. / Zembruzki, Luciano; Sommese, Raffaele; Granville, Lisandro Zambenedetti et al.
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