Redwood City, CA – August 10, 2009 – In an enlightened example of cooperation among competitors to improve online security, Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) today announced that Afilias and Neustar, Inc. are working with ISC to support ISC’s DNSSEC Look-aside Validation (DLV) registry by providing secondary DNS service for the DLV zone. 

Afilias Managed DNS Services will be exhibiting at the ad:tech New York event.

Afilias will be showcasing its Managed DNS Service at booth #435.

Afilias will be showcasing its Managed DNS Services at booth #525.

DUBLIN, IRELAND - 2 June 2009 - Afilias, a global provider of Internet infrastructure services and domain name registry technology, today announced that it has successfully signed the .ORG zone with Domain Name Security Extensions (DNSSEC) on behalf of its customer, .ORG, The Public Interest Registry (PIR).  The .ORG zone is being signed in a phased manner with an initial period allowing for key partners to test the signed zone.

New solution to speed adoption of DNSSEC and enhance Internet security

 DUBLIN, IRELAND - 2 March 2009 - Today Afilias announced the beta launch of 1-Click DNSSEC^TM , an enhancement to its Managed DNS Service, that allows organizations, corporations and government agencies to enable DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) on their domains, quickly and easily. Afilias is currently accepting ‘proof of concept' testing customers and expects to officially rollout 1-Click DNSSEC^TM as a service available to all of the Afilias Managed DNS customers later this year.

DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) was first introduced in the mid-1990s as an additional security measure to protect the DNS from cache poisoning exploits (recently referred to as the Kaminsky bug) which can allow a bad actor to get in the middle of an Internet users’ request to access a Web site without their knowledge. DNSSEC introduces digital signatures to the DNS infrastructure and can provide users with effective verification that their applications, such as Web or email, are using the correct addresses for servers they want to reach.

DNSSEC is the best approach to secure your DNS infrastructure and protect visitors to your Web site from unknowingly being victimized by bad actors.  Current efforts to deploy DNSSEC globally have been slowed by the complexity of implementation. 

Afilias is the world’s leading provider of Internet infrastructure solutions that connect people to their data. Whether you need to connect to your domain name, the DNS, or RFID data, Afilias’ technology connects you in a reliable, secure, stable, and globally available manner.