[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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