VeriSign Enters The Managed DNS Market: Page 2 of 2

The Managed DNS service has a number of useful features to organizations such as built-in support for DNSSEC management that eases the key management and record signing for DNSSEC-signed zones. While DNSSEC hasn't taken off yet, the root zone was signed in July paving the way for a global DNSSEC roll-out and VeriSign is on track to sign the .net in Q4 2010 and sign .com by Q1 2010.

In addition, the Managed DNS offers advanced service support features like split DNS so that you can maintain separate name spaces for internal and external clients. The service also supports global server load balancing (GSLB), which directs clients to the closest server, improving application response time and distributing the overall load across many servers. GSLB also enables automatic fail-over; in the event that a server goes down, clients will be redirected to an alternative server. Due to VeriSign's distributed DNS service, DNS load balancing is available as well. Verisign is not getting into the IP Address Management (IPAM) space, but it is watching IPAM companies like Bluecat Networks who recently launched managed DNS service called Proteus Cloud Service service that integrates with their IPAM appliance.

Verisign's Managed DNS is available now. Pricing is based on the number of zones that are hosted and the number of queries. Enterprise and e-commerce DNS starts at $2,000 per month. For small to medium businesses, DNS starts at $50 per month, and secondary DNS starts at $1,000 per month.