Experts reveal that the unhurried DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) implementation among businesses is due to a number of factors including lack of government regulation and disinclination of registrars to sign keys, Tyler Thia of ZDNet Asia reports. Also, organizations are hesitant to incur expenses for a system improvement that does not earn income.

While most corporate IT experts agree that current Internet security leaves much to be desired, very little of them have heard of DNSSEC, the security standard developed precisely to combat cache-poisoning that leads to identify thefts and other forms of cybercrimes.

Now that VeriSign has enabled DNSSEC on the 'dotcom' domain, the administrator of Australia's country top-level domain '.au' is strongly considering it as well.

According to a report by ZDNet, .au Domain Administration Ltd. will most likely follow VeriSign in a year's time, adding it is now in the final stages of testing DNSSEC.

VeriSign has enabled DNSSEC on the top-level domain '.com', the first bold step by a registry operator to deploy the security standard on a global scale.

Brisbane, Australia -- June 11, 2010 -- APNIC is participating in a global project to help provide security to the Domain Name System. Deploying a three-phase plan, APNIC has successfully tested its DNSSEC platform (phase 1), signed its zones (phase 2) and is now currently introducing Member DNSSEC data (phase 3).

Culpepper, VA USA -- June 16, 2010 -- The generation of the cryptographic key that will be used to secure the root zone of the Domain Name System using DNSSEC has been created in a high security data centre located in Culpeper, VA, outside of Washington, DC.

With each new real-world test of DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC), technologists gain a better understanding of how to maximize the security benefits of DNSSEC while minimizing compatibility and implementation issues.

Washington, D.C. -- March 17, 2010 -- ICANN's commitment to the deployment of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) continues with the launch of the Generic Signing Infrastructure (GSI).

After several months of testing the operational aspects of the GSI, ICANN engineers executed the maintenance procedure to publish a signed ICANN.ORG domain on March 11, 2010 at 0400 UTC.

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The leading domain name registrars in the United States appear to be dragging their feet on the deployment of DNS Security Extensions, an emerging standard that prevents an insidious type of hacking attack where network traffic is redirected from a legitimate Web site to a fake one without the Web site operator or user knowing.