The Public Interest Registry, which operates the .ORG domain though their service provider Afilias, announced that they will complete full adoption of DNSSEC in June. An excerpt from their press release:
RESTON, VA--(Marketwire - March 11, 2010)- .ORG, The Public Interest Registry (PIR) today announced plans to complete the final step to realizing full DNSSEC deployment in the .ORG registry by accepting second level signed .ORG zones beginning in June of 2010. This positions .ORG as the first generic top-level domain (TLD) to offer full DNSSEC deployment.
All registrars can now plan to offer an additional security service to their customers. The benefits of DNSSEC include the ability to thwart the increasing predominance of attacks like pharming, cache poisoning, and DNS redirection that have been used to commit fraud, distribute malware, and/or identity theft. DNSSEC, an upgrade to the internet infrastructure, protects Internet resolvers (clients) from forged DNS data, such as that created by DNS cache poisoning.
"We applaud PIR's leadership in the deployment of DNSSEC in the gTLD space," said Rod Beckstrom, president and chief executive officer of ICANN. "Opening up general registration of signed zones in .ORG is a major step forward."
This is a big step in improving Internet security. Without the authentication provided by DNSSEC we will never be secure online and we will never get full adoption of cloud computing (see recent comments from a former NSA Tech Chief "I don't trust the cloud" in Network World).
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