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Network operators need to protect themselves and their customers against major outages.

Geopolitical, historical, and linguistic factors shape which companies and countries are relied upon for web infrastructure.

Internet consolidation has shifted us toward an ecosystem where a handful of companies underpin much of the global digital economy.

Borges is a new, open-source framework that provides real-time network ownership maps.

A new game-theoretic model shows that consumer benefits peak at a sweet spot in the number of firms that depends on market size, spectrum, investment efficiency, and user usage.

A new study of 58 countries shows that many online government services are served and routed via foreign networks and have low HTTPS encryption adoption rates.

An hour-long outage of one of the most popular global Domain Name System (DNS) services highlighted the need for greater diversity of this critical Internet infrastructure.

Healthy competition among Internet Service Providers can increase consumer choice, reduce prices, and foster innovation, efficiency, quality, and resilience.

Studying changes in the deployment of content delivery networks and content providers helps uncover trends in how these key players adapt to shifts in the modern Internet ecosystem.

GlobalSign's growing popularity among the top 1,000 most popular websites as the preferred SSL certificate authority has changed the global balance of market concentration.

Study shows that 62% of government URLs worldwide are hosted by third-party providers.

Subsea cable construction has broadened substantially since 2002, moving away from focusing only on Europe, North America, and East Asia. However, it remains concentrated in large markets.