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The sixth-annual survey of the Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure on the public Internet, conducted by the Measurement Factory and underwritten by Infoblox, finds that while DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) adoption increased dramatically, by 340 percent, this year, it was on such a small base that DNS security is virtually nonexistent for the almost 200 million registered domains. DNSSEC is a suite of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) specifications for securing informa
December 08, 2010

On a more positive note, the parent or top-level domain names--.com, .org and .net--are all moving to DNSSEC, says Liu. Only .org is currently signed, but .net is expected to sign this month, and .com is expected to be on board by March. With the parents signed, there
should be no excuses for the sub-zones, he says.

The removal of that "barrier" won't necessarily mean organizations will now jump on the
DNSSEC bandwagon, cautions Liu. He sees regulation as one option for driving Internet security. Another option is standards bodies like PCI (Payment Card Industry). There is also the possibility of a big lawsuit getting people's attention, he adds.

Another survey finding was the issue of topological diversity of authoritative name servers, with almost 75 percent of all name servers advertised in a single autonomous system. This presents a single point of failure that can impact availability of organizations' Internet presence in the event of a fault or problem with routing infrastructure.

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