For more information:
Crystal Peterson, Marketing & Communications Manager
Email:
cpeterson@pir.org
Reston, VA – June, 2, 2009 – Today, .ORG, The Public Interest Registry (
www.pir.org),
the company behind the .ORG domain name, is the first open generic
Top-Level Domain to successfully sign the .ORG zone file with Domain
Name Security Extensions (DNSSEC). To date, the .ORG zone is the
largest domain registry to implement the security measure.
“We feel that implementing DNSSEC is a fundamental step in the upgrade
of Internet security and stability,” says Alexa Raad, CEO of .ORG, The
Public Interest Registry. “With continuing growth of the Internet and
the increasing number of applications depending on the DNS, this is a
critical step in the evolution of the Internet. Pioneering
technologies which are in the public interest, such as DNSSEC, are core
to .ORG’s mission.”
In June 2008, the PIR proposal to implement DNSSEC within the .ORG zone
was unanimously approved by the board of Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) after a thorough review by ICANN's
Security and Stability Committee. As the first open generic Top Level
Domain authorized to implement DNSSEC, .ORG launched the DNSSEC
Industry Coalition in August 2008 to execute an industry wide education
and adoption plan within the Internet infrastructure community.
"This is a major step forward in improving security for Internet users
and we congratulate PIR on this enormous accomplishment," said Ram
Mohan Executive VP and CTO for Afilias, PIR's technology provider.
"While Afilias' registry and DNS technology will ensure that the .ORG
zone is properly signed with DNSSEC, the additional collaboration with
testing partners during the quiet period will provide intelligence for
live use scenarios to ensure for the best possible end user experience
when .ORG owners add this technology to their domains."
Signing the .ORG zone is an important step to realizing full DNSSEC
implementation across the Chain of Trust. PIR will initially take a
phased approach to full production readiness with DNSSEC for end users.
The registry will be in a DNSSEC quiet period to manually test the
signed zone to mitigate any risks to the larger .ORG community.
"While DNSSEC will not solve all the problems associated with DNS, it
is an important step towards increased authentication of DNS responses.
I hope other Top-Level Domains will follow PIR's lead,” says Vint Cerf,
Chief Internet Evangelist, Google.
About Domain Name Security Extensions (DNSSEC)
With DNSSEC, Internet users know that their Internet-based
communications such as web site visits and email correspondence
actually connect to the parties they intend to reach. DNSSEC thwarts
attacks such as pharming, cache poisoning, and DNS redirection that
have been used to commit fraud, distribute malware, or steal personal
or confidential information. For more information on DNSSEC, please
visit
http://pir.org/dnssec.
About .ORG, The Public Interest Registry
Trusted across all ages, backgrounds and nationalities, .ORG is where
people turn to find credible information, get involved, fund causes and
support advocacy. .ORG, The Public Interest Registry empowers the
global noncommercial community to use the Internet more effectively
and, concurrently, takes a leadership position among Internet
stakeholders on policy and related issues. The .ORG domain is the
Internet’s third largest “generic” or non-country specific top-level
domain with more than 7 million domain names registered worldwide.
.ORG, The Public Interest Registry was founded by the Internet Society
in 2002. It is based in Reston, Virginia, USA.
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