Afilias EVP and CTO Ram Mohan said the signing of .GI, .MN, and .SC helps to broaden DNSSEC deployment across its registry system.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Internet infrastructure services provider Afilias (www.afilias.info) has enabled Domain Name System Security Extensions for .GI, the country code Top Level Domain for Gibraltar, .MN for Mongolia, and .SC for the Seychelles.
According to Afilias’ Thursday announcement, the signing of these three ccTLDs is part of the organization’s “Project Safeguard” to deploy DNSSEC across its registry platforms. This latest deployment brings the number of secured TLDs on its registry platform to 11.
“This is another step forward in Afilias’ Project Safeguard rollout that is broadening DNSSEC deployment across our registry system,” Afilias executive vice president and chief technology officer Ram Mohan said in a statement. “With more than 50 TLDs having now deployed DNSSEC, we are pleased to enable our customers to benefit from our global leadership on DNSSEC and our supporting registry technology.”
DNSSEC development began in the early 1990’s, but it has only recently become ready for broad deployment as an additional security measure to protect the DNS from cache poisoning exploits. Exploit can, for instance, let malicious entities intercept Internet users’ requests to access a website, and redirect or eavesdrop on them without their knowledge, and with no ability to reassert control.
Earlier this month, Afilias enabled DNSSEC for .IN, the country code top-level domain representing India, improving global security for the Asian TLD, which has more than 700,000 individual domains.
The trio of Gibraltar, Mongolia, Seychelles represents a relatively small body of users. Gibraltar is a British overseas territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula at the entrance of the Mediterranean; Mongolia a landlocked country in East and Central Asia bordered by Russia to the north and the China in each other direction; and Seychelles an island country spanning an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, some 932 miles east of mainland Africa.
Marc Houareau, executive chairman of VCS Pty Ltd, which manages .SC, said that the impact of DNSSEC will reach far beyond Seychelles.
“.SC domains are used not just in the Seychelles, but around the globe as a meaningful and short Web address,” he stated. “Signing the .SC domain with DNSSEC allows us to play a key leadership role in evolution of the Internet.”
Afilias’ rollout of DNSSEC is based on the strategy successfully used in the successful deployment of the .ORG registry between 2009 and 2010. The company said that its deployment of DNSSEC to other TLDs will be done in a similar, careful, step-by-step way.
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