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We curate data from trusted sources to help everyone understand the health, availability and evolution of the global Internet.

Ongoing Internet Shutdowns
Internet Shutdowns in last 12 months
Global HTTPS Adoption
Global IPv6 Adoption

Internet Shutdowns

Learn more about Internet shutdown events occurring around the world and find out more about the economic and human impact of these actions.

Enabling Technologies

Learn more about adoption rates for some of the key technologies that are essential for the continued growth and evolution of the global Internet.

Pulse Blog

Read the latest blog posts on the Pulse Blog:

May 10, 2021

Tracking Internet Shutdowns

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Susannah Gray
Communications Wrangler
Categories: Shutdown

Internet shutdowns harm societies, economies and the global Internet infrastructure – that’s why we’re tracking disruptions on the Internet Society Pulse platform. There are thousands of disruptions to Internet access every day all over the world, but not all of them are the result of deliberate shutdowns. Lengthy outages are usually the result of technical errors, […]

May 5, 2021

Uzbeks celebrate birthday of .uz by deploying DNSSEC

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Mat Ford
Technology Insights
Categories: Technology

The administrators of the Uzbek country-code top-level-domain (ccTLD) are celebrating the 26th birthday of .uz in the best way possible: by deploying DNSSEC. In their announcement of this happy news, UZINFOCOM highlight that the .uz ccTLD now boasts 92,000 registered domains, having grown by over 50% in just the last three years. The celebrations include the release […]

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May 4, 2021

Opposing Shutdowns Proactively

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Hanna Kreitem
Disruptions Observer
Categories: Shutdown

Several governments around the world turn to limiting or shutting down access to the Internet as an easy solution to quell potential local problems. In the past few years, we’ve noticed that Internet shutdowns occur around periods of local unrest, elections, or national school/university exams. We have also noticed that shutdowns rarely serve their purpose […]