Owned and operated by Terremark, says the company, NAP of the Americas is one of five Tier-1 network access points in the world.

The move, says Terremark, will bolster the NAP infrastructure that currently processes more than five billion network connections and transactions a day. The gTLD server is one of 13 that VeriSign owns and operates globally to assign and manage the definitive list of the world?s .com, .net and .org domain names.

?VeriSign is committed to the stability of the Internet and the development of DNS infrastructure to deliver on the power and promise of the Internet,? says Mark Rippe, vice president of operations, VeriSign Global Registry Services. ?Having the most redundant, secure, and technologically advanced DNS network in place, allows us to offer our enterprise customers 100 percent uptime for their Internet services now and in the future, plus it will allow us to bridge voice and data networks to make the Internet accessible on any device for commerce and communications.''

VeriSign?s gTLD servers manage approximately 28 million Web addresses and respond to more than five billion look-ups each day. Approximately 10 to 15 percent of this look-up traffic, says Terremark, comes from Latin America.

?Moving one of VeriSign's US-based gTLD servers closer to Latin America reduces the latency that could occur when Internet users in this vital region access the Web,? says Manuel D. Medina, chairman and CEO of Terremark Worldwide, Inc. ?With a gTLD server in the NAP of the Americas, we can help VeriSign address the ever increasing look-up traffic originating in Latin America while increasing the efficiencies for Internet traffic around the world.?