GoDaddy Enhances .Com Security With DNSSEC Implementation

With more than 47 million domain names under management, GoDaddy has a huge DNS infrastructure that it has upgraded to support the emerging Internet security standard known as DNSSEC for DNS Security Extensions. GoDaddy's year-long engineering effort to prepare for DNSSEC is significant given that the Internet's most popular domain -- .com - will support DNSSEC by the end of March, according to .com operator Verisign.

DNSSEC is an emerging Internet standard that allows Web sites to verify their domain names and corresponding IP addresses using digital signatures and public-key encryption. DNSSEC prevents Kaminsky-style attacks, where traffic is redirected from a legitimate Web site to a fake one without the Web site operator or end user knowing.

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