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.ORG Becomes First Generic Top-Level Domain to Deploy Enhanced Domain Security Protocol (DNSSEC)

Brussels, Belgium.... June 23.... .ORG, The Public Interest Registry (PIR) has taken the final step to become the first generic top-level domain (gTLD) to offer full deployment of Domain Name System Security Extensions or DNSSEC.

Alexa Raad, the CEO of .ORG made the announcement today during ICANN's 38th International meeting in Brussels.

Raad was joined in a news conference at 09:30 UTC by Steve Crocker, Co-Chair of ICANN's DNSSEC Deployment Initiative; noted DNS security expert Daniel Kaminsky, Chief Scientist at Recursion Ventures and Rod Beckstrom, President and Chief Executive Officer of ICANN.

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The Global Deployment of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) Begins

Culpepper, VA USA… June 16… The generation of the cryptographic key that will be used to secure the root zone of the Domain Name System using DNSSEC has been created in a high security data centre located in Culpeper, VA, outside of Washington, DC.

The ceremony was conducted with the goal of ensuring that there is widespread confidence throughout the technical Internet community that the root zone, once signed, can be relied upon to protect users from false information.

DNSSEC provides a cryptographic framework that improves the security of the Domain Name System. DNSSEC provides Internet users greater assurance that when they type in their destination address they are actually reaching the destination they intended to reach.

• View video with highlights of the ceremony
• Read the ICANN announcement about the ceremony
• View and/or download high resolution photos of the ceremony

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Issues of Interest to Journalists

New gTLDs  |  Internationalised Domain Names  |  Fast-track IDN ccTLD Activities  |  IPv6  |  Affirmation of Commitments

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What Is ICANN?

To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have one global Internet.

ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet’s unique identifiers.

ICANN doesn’t control content on the Internet. It cannot stop spam and it doesn’t deal with access to the Internet. But through its coordination role of the Internet’s naming system, it does have an important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet.