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.COM DOMAIN NAMES – THE MOST RECOGNIZED AND TRUSTED TLD

April 17, 2011 Reply

The .com top-level domain (TLD) has become the standard for doing business online. More than 100 million .com and .net domain names have been registered by businesses and consumers worldwide.

THE POWER OF .COM ONLINE
Millions of businesses and consumers worldwide choose .com to enable their web sites, email, and web-based applications. As more people gain Internet access, the global demand for .com continues to grow and renewals in established areas remain strong. When companies register a .com domain name, they use it and are likely to renew it. Nearly 90 percent of .com domain names resolve to a web site.

THE GLOBALIZATION OF .COM
As companies and communications go global, people are breaking down borders to conduct business anywhere the Internet reaches, and .com has come to mean business everywhere. Make sure your customers are easily found online by adding .com to your suite of domain names. You can even potentially increase registrations with Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) for .com.

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.NET DOMAIN NAMES – A GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS DELIVERY SERVICE

April 16, 2011 Reply

The .net top-level domain (TLD) is one of the most important communication networks in the world. Originally intended for use by network providers, today there are no restrictions on who can register a .net domain name. While .net continues to serve as the backbone for the global Internet infrastructure, .net domain names may be used for network infrastructure, ecommerce web sites, email, and every other application on the Internet.

THE MOST IMPORTANT NETWORK IN THE WORLD
The .net TLD delivers electronic communications for some of the largest email and electronic communications providers in the world, and thus has become the backbone for the global Internet. The .net registration and resolution service is comparable in magnitude to a national telephone network or postal service. When the entire ecosystem of .net is considered, it is directly or indirectly involved with at least 30 percent of all Internet activity.

OFFER MORE THAN .COM
Domain names are the foundation for your online presence. A .net after your company name or business keyword shows the world that you are available 24/7. Many of the largest telecommunications providers and network operators, as well as non-profit organizations and high-profile government agencies, have discovered .net as a valuable complement or alternative to a .com domain name. They depend on the reliability and global recognition of .net for communication, information dissemination, ecommerce, and fundraising.

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DNSSEC finally goes mainstream

April 1, 2011 Reply

DNSSEC, a more secure version of the internet domain name to IP address lookup protocol, was enabled on the .com top-level domain on Thursday.

The move by VeriSign, the operator of .com, marks an important milestone in the adoption of the technology, now accessible to 80 million registered domains.

The internet’s root servers at the top of the DNS (Domain Name System) hierarchy added DNSSEC support last July. More than 25 top-level domains—including .gov, .org, .edu and .net—have enabled DNSSEC since then.

DNSSEC, or DNS Security Extensions, uses cryptographic checks to make sure that IP results returned by a DNS query point to the corresponding domain name. The technology is a countermeasure against DNS cache-poisoning attacks, such as those famously highlighted by security researcher Dan Kaminsky back in 2008.

The technology has existed for more than a decade and is seen as an important safeguard against certain types of “man in the middle” and cache-poisoning attacks. Despite its longevity, awareness of the importance of the protocol remains patchy.

For example, half the security experts quizzed in a recent survey by internet security firm IID (Internet Identity) admitted they either knew nothing about DNSSEC or only had limited familiarity with the protocol.

Source : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/01/dnssec_com_goes_live/