The Internet is set to get a whole lot safer, the security standard DNSSEC is set to be assigned to the Internet's 13 root servers from later today.
It makes the end of a long trail; DNSSEC has been some years in its implementation yet has still failed to penetrate the wider market, despite the efforts of IETF, the Internet registries and the US government.

Naming registry ICANN has been working with Verisign and the US department of commerce for some time to make DNSSEC a more integrated part of the Internet infrastructure. ICANN's DNS director, Joe Abley, said that the rollout of DNSSEC to the root servers had been a long one. "We Started rolling it since January - it's a slow rollout,. We've taken 6 months to do this - it's not like in enterprises where you trial something and go live next week.

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