What has Internet infrastructure done for us lately?

The end-user rarely has to worry or even think about a lot of what domain name systems companies do to keep things humming along. Working primarily in the background, infrastructure companies provide a critical yet completely overlooked service, unless something out of the ordinary, like abuse of the domain name system, or general downtime, happens.

During the pandemic, the Internet’s infrastructure has not only endured, but thrived. The opportunity and ability to scale and support increased work has been fundamental to the increased load the Internet has to bear, and yet most end-users take this fantastic technical undertaking as a given. While it is important to make sure that the world is being protected from malicious attacks and evil actors, it’s just as important to acknowledge the tremendous work being put into making the internet not just safer, but faster, stronger and more accessible.