Members of the Edge-IX not only benefit from peering with each other but have access to a number of key Internet resources to help improve the service of the Internet as a whole or to improve the service they provide to their end users

Nominet

Nominet is the Internet registry for .uk domain names. As such they operate at the heart of e-commerce in the UK, running one of the world's largest internet registries and managing over nine million domain names. Nominet maintain the register of .uk domain names. They run the technology which locates a computer on the Internet hosting the web site or email system you're looking for when you type in a web address or send an email to an address that ends in .uk.

The Nominet name servers are a key global resource for any organisation using a .uk domain name. In order to ensure they are always available multiple server in multiple geographical locations provide a distributed service to the Internet community. Edge-IX are very please to support Nominet by providing access and connectivity to one of the .uk name servers. Members of the exchange directly benefit from a .uk name server connected directly to the exchange. By peering with the Edge-IX route collector Members can ensure incredibly fast access to the name server irrespective of what may occur on their upstream feeds.

Team Cymru Bogon Route Server

A bogon prefix is a route that should never appear in the Internet routing table. A packet routed over the public Internet (not including over VPNs or other tunnels) should never have a source address in a bogon range. These are commonly found as the source addresses of DDoS attacks.