Yesterday, the DNS root zone was signed. This is an important step in the deployment of DNSSEC, the mechanism that will finally secure the DNS against manipulation by malicious third parties. The ...

The U.S. government is soliciting input on a way to make the Internet’s addressing system less susceptible to tampering by hackers. Under the idea, records in the DNS (Domain Name System) root zone ...

The DNSSEC initiative to embed security at the heart of the internet by preventing URL spoofing and other attacks has passed an important milestone. The secure domain name server (DNS) protocol DNSSEC ...

Currently, our Child Domain Domain controllers host the Root Domains DNS zone as a secondary zone. I have considered removing the secondary DNS zones for the root domain from the Child Domain DCs and ...

In the second part 2 of a 5 part series of articles released by Verisign on its blog was written by Danny McPherson on the possible dangers of the impending rollout of the new gTLD program. Basically ...

So far, so good. That’s the report from Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as it rolled out the first-ever changing of the cryptographic key that helps protect the internet’s ...

The U.S. government is seeking input on a way to make the Internet’s addressing system less susceptible to tampering by hackers. Under the idea, records in the Domain Name System (DNS) root zone would ...