MoRSe : Monitoring Registrar Services

Internet domain registration services provided by .it Registry are used by over one thousand Registrars. In line with the contract between the .it Registry and the Registrars, .it Registry carries out R&D projects, which, in most cases, bring to the development of new services useful for the Internet community and the Registrars. One of these projects, which has also been approved by the Registry .it Steering Committee in 2018, is called MoRSe (Monitoring Registrar Services): a monitoring Cloud based platform whose aim is to complement the existing set of services delivered to the Registrars by focusing on services availability and security. The core features of MoRSe are hosts and networks monitoring and vulnerability scans of the services offered to Registrars. This allows the Registrars to promptly detect possible network problems as low latency, BGP routing changes, BGP Hijacking cases, etc., and to identify host vulnerabilities. This document describe describes the platform MoRSe and the implementation choises that led to its realization.