[gregsadetsky]

gov.uk's traffic seems to be handled by Fastly, a well known CDN.

What I'm a bit surprised / unsure of is what happens when I run "dig ns gov.uk". The results are:

  gov.uk.     21559 IN  NS  ns1.surfnet.nl.
  gov.uk.     21559 IN  NS  auth50.ns.de.uu.net.
  gov.uk.     21559 IN  NS  ns3.ja.net.
  gov.uk.     21559 IN  NS  ns2.ja.net.
  gov.uk.     21559 IN  NS  ns0.ja.net.
  gov.uk.     21559 IN  NS  auth00.ns.de.uu.net.
  gov.uk.     21559 IN  NS  ns4.ja.net.

Who is ja.net , uu.net and surfnet.nl ..?

EDIT: I see that ja.net i.e. jisc.ac.uk "manages the second level domain .gov.uk" -- https://www.jisc.ac.uk/domain-registry . I imagine that uu.net and surfnet.nl are there for redundancy

[sakisv]

Ah sorry, you're indeed right. Turns out it was just the .service.gov.uk domain that uses GCP and AWS - I just thought that applied to the parent domain too.

  $ dig NS service.gov.uk +short

  ns-cloud-e4.googledomains.com.
  ns-cloud-e3.googledomains.com.
  ns-cloud-e2.googledomains.com.
  ns-cloud-e1.googledomains.com.
  ns-831.awsdns-39.net.
  ns-1983.awsdns-55.co.uk.
  ns-117.awsdns-14.com.
  ns-1080.awsdns-07.org.

[PaywallBuster]

  whois ja.net
    Domain Name: JA.NET
    Registry Domain ID: 499794_DOMAIN_NET-VRSN
    Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.demys.com
    Registrar URL: http://www.demys.com

"Demys is a leading provider of corporate domain name management and an ICANN accredited registrar"

  whois uu.net
    Domain Name: UU.NET
    Registry Domain ID: 5486163_DOMAIN_NET-VRSN
    Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.markmonitor.com

surfnet is just an ISP in Netherlands

https://www.surf.nl/

[gregsadetsky]

Thanks

Is it possible to see if/where is gov.uk using GCP or AWS for its domain zones? From what I can see -- that's not the case? Or am I looking in the wrong place?

[PaywallBuster]

I think you did the right query, maybe they're using it for different domain names?