100% availability

English translation: servers being stable and accurate 100% of the time

06:55 Jan 8, 2012
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Tech/Engineering - Computers (general)
English term or phrase: 100% availability
Hi,

I need your help in order to clarify the following sentence.

"VeriSign operates the Internet infrastructure that has supported the .com and .net top-level domain names with 100% availability since 1998"

What does 100% availability mean in this context? I can't fully comprehend it. It doesn't just make sense.

Does it mean that VeriSign supports and covers all (100%) of the .com and .net domain names?

Thank you for sparing your time to help out.
Yasin Koç
Local time: 11:32
Selected answer:servers being stable and accurate 100% of the time
Explanation:
The 100% availability refers to “the Internet infrastructure”, specifically “the Internet infrastructure that has supported the .com and .net top-level domain names”.

ICANN’s list shows Verisign to be the “operator” of the .com and .net domains.

According to Verisign, the “infrastructure” specifically the “routing support” for DNS queries and the “100% availability” refers to “operational accuracy and stability” of “TLD resolution services”. In other words, they are talking about the reliability of their DNS servers.

We provide the routing support for more than 90 million domain names ending with .com, .net, .tv, .name, .cc, .edu and .jobs—up to 50 billion DNS queries a day. More than half (56%) of the world's DNS hosts rely on the Verisign .net and .com infrastructure.
Our continued commitment to our infrastructure has enabled us to maintain operational accuracy and stability of .com and .net TLD resolution services 100 percent of the time over the past 12 years, and earning us the reputation of being one of the most reliable and trusted networks in the world.
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3 +2servers being stable and accurate 100% of the time
Ambrose Li
4100% ready for use
Pham Huu Phuoc
4the infrastructure has always been 'up' since 1998
Oliver Lawrence
4with total accessibility
eski
3have given continuous support to the .com and .net -level domain names
DLyons


  

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servers being stable and accurate 100% of the time


Explanation:
The 100% availability refers to “the Internet infrastructure”, specifically “the Internet infrastructure that has supported the .com and .net top-level domain names”.

ICANN’s list shows Verisign to be the “operator” of the .com and .net domains.

According to Verisign, the “infrastructure” specifically the “routing support” for DNS queries and the “100% availability” refers to “operational accuracy and stability” of “TLD resolution services”. In other words, they are talking about the reliability of their DNS servers.

We provide the routing support for more than 90 million domain names ending with .com, .net, .tv, .name, .cc, .edu and .jobs—up to 50 billion DNS queries a day. More than half (56%) of the world's DNS hosts rely on the Verisign .net and .com infrastructure.
Our continued commitment to our infrastructure has enabled us to maintain operational accuracy and stability of .com and .net TLD resolution services 100 percent of the time over the past 12 years, and earning us the reputation of being one of the most reliable and trusted networks in the world.


    Reference: http://www.icann.org/en/registries/listing.html
    Reference: http://www.verisigninc.com/en_US/why-verisign/verisign-brand...
Ambrose Li
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agree  Nikita Kobrin
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neutral  DLyons: It's one interpretation of what's said, but not physically possible.
4 hrs
  -> Much appreciated; your comment is quite valid, but this is a piece of marketing text after all, isn’t it. I don’t expect much from a registry that sabotaged the semantics of both the .com and .net domains.

agree  Susana Alves
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100% ready for use


Explanation:
The ratio of (a) the total time a functional unit is capable of being used during a given interval to (b) the length of the interval.

Example sentence(s):
  • For example, a unit that is capable of being used 100 hours per week (168 hours) would have an availability of 100/168. However, typical availability values are specified in decimal (such as 0.9998). In high availability applications, a metric known as ni

    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nines_%28engineering%29
Pham Huu Phuoc
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neutral  DLyons: It's one interpretation of what's said, but not physically possible.
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the infrastructure has always been 'up' since 1998


Explanation:
is how I read it.
The top domains have never had any downtime.

Oliver Lawrence
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neutral  DLyons: It's one interpretation of what's said, but not physically possible.
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have given continuous support to the .com and .net -level domain names


Explanation:
They have provided services 100% of the time e.g. validating Registrars, issuing SSL certificates etc. I'm relying on memory here, but I'm pretty sure the DNS servers have been down during that period - certainly large chunks of the Net have been inaccessible so a claim of 100% uptime sounds wrong to me.

DLyons
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with total accessibility


Explanation:
with total accessibility

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eski :))

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