Web infrastructure services provider VeriSign has opened two new European centres which should help improve internet traffic management through faster domain name system (DNS) resolution and improve supervisors' ability to tackle region-specific domain attacks.

The new European Regional Internet Resolution Sites, based in Paris and Brussels will include upgraded server infrastructure making it easier to tackle two of today's most pressing internet issues: the strain placed on bandwidth by the rampant growth in video use; and transaction logging with DNS lookups.

Silva outlined the two main areas of strain on the Internet as being bandwidth, due to the amount of videos and video content people were downloading; and transaction logging with DNS lookups. "Anytime anybody wants to find something on the internet, they have to do a DNS query and even for Europe we need to increase the infrastructure required," said Silva

"What we're trying to do is regionalise the area, so customers systems don't need to go as far for DNS lookups," he added.

The new centres form part of VeriSign's Project Titan, which will see 100 similar centres being built across the globe by 2010. These centres will be ready for the transition to the next version of the Internet Protocol, IPv6.