“Recently, Iran began hosting a root DNS server, thereby potentially providing this critical service to the rest of the world. In this blog, we’ll explore some of these latest developments and their challenges. In November, European Internet registrar RIPE will hold its regional operator meeting (MENOG) in Tehran, where attendees from around the world will learn firsthand about recent developments in the fast-growing Iranian Internet.”
As always with Dyn Research (formerly Renesys) blog, a lot of data and very interesting analysis.
▻http://research.dyn.com/2015/09/iran-latest-nation-to-host-critical-global-internet-infrastruture