A screen shot of the US General Services Administration website
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Internet infrastructure service provider VeriSign (www.verisign.com) announced on Thursday it has been selected by the US General Services Administration (www.gsa.gov) to operate the nation’s domain name registry for .gov.
The move comes just a few months after the GSA awarded 11 companies a five-year, government-wide Blanket Purchase Agreement to offer Infrastructure as a Service solutions to all levels of government through the gateway Apps.gov.
Following a competitive RFP and evaluation process, the GSA granted Verisign the authority to provide designated domain name registration services to federal, state and local governments operating sites under the .gov and fed.us domain names.
The services include processing requests, help desk assistance and operation of the authoritative .gov DNS servers, as well as supporting the implementation of DNS Security Extensions on .gov and fed.us.
The .gov domain is used by federal organizations like Congress and the FBI, state and county governments and small municipalities.
Additionally, agencies such as the US Forest Service and US District Court in New Mexico use the fed.us registry to serve many more websites and the citizens who visit them.
“Verisign is honored to be granted the responsibility of operating the .gov and fed.us domain name registries,” says Mark McLaughlin, president and CEO of Verisign. “Our unmatched operational excellence and proven security expertise offers the GSA a trusted and experienced partner, poised to protect its infrastructure against threats now and into the future. In addition to providing GSA the best in industry service to reliably meet its evolving demands, we are prepared to deliver value-added services that the GSA and its customers may require.”
In making its selection, the GSA determined Verisign addressed all the prequisites for operating the .gov domain name registry.
These components included designing and operating a registry infrastructure capable of scaling to meet the needs of the GSA, while maintaining best-in-class reliability and accessibility, operating a network infrastructure that supports both IPv4 and IPv6, full support of DNSSEC, and unmatched security and stability.
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