BOTTOM LINE
To maintain the
security and stability of the Internet’s
address system,
ICANN turned to
Iron Mountain
Digital.
cover story:
Protecting Your Most Valuable
Internet
Asset WHAT IF THE COMPANY THAT REGISTERED
your organization’s Internet address
went out of business? What would happen—besides the obvious consequence
of your site crashing—to all the data the
now-defunct company held?
It was just such a scenario that
prompted ICANN, the organization that
ensures Internet users can find their way
around the Web, to make data escrow
a requirement for domain name regis-
trars. ICANN, the Internet Corporation
of Assigned Names and Numbers, has
partnered with Iron Mountain to put in
By Maria Doyle place the Registrar Data Escrow program,
to make sure Web sites continue to work
Photographs by Anne Hamersky even if the company they are registered
with shuts down.
ICANN
and Iron
Mountain
weave a
Web of
protected
data
