Paving the Way for a Safer, More Secure Internet

Cyber crime is often stealth. Some attacks can be virtually invisible to those they affect, and any Internet user, anywhere in the world, could fall prey.

Deployment of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) is paving the way for a safer, more secure Internet.

Rewind two years ago - 2008 Black Hat Conference, Las Vegas

Dan Kaminsky, a superstar in the security research community, made headlines worldwide with his announcement of a fundamental flaw in the security of the domain name system (DNS). This flaw made it easy for criminals to perform cyber crimes such as cache poisoning and man-in-the-middle attacks upon unsuspecting people.

Resume play to present day - 2010 Black Hat Conference, Las Vegas

Dan Kaminsky is back at Black Hat along with Rod Beckstrom, ICANN's President & CEO, and other DNS experts to not only explore other DNS risks but to announce the solution to the DNS flaw brought to light two years ago. That solution is DNSSEC.

In a news conference at Black Hat on Wednesday, 28 July 2010, ICANN along with VeriSign, the Internet Engineering Task Force and Kaminsky announced that DNSSEC has effectively been deployed at the root of the Internet thus laying the foundation for a new generation of innovative cyber security solutions.

Once fully deployed, DNSSEC will help prevent criminals from redirecting users to fake websites and give Internet users increased confidence that the sites they visit are secure.

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Public Comment

Every significant piece of work that ICANN produces goes through a period of public comment, typically 30 days, so that the broader Internet community has an opportunity to comment. Often one document will go through several stages of review and revision before being finalised. Below are all the comment periods that are currently open.

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