ICANN urges adopting DNSSEC now

Powerful malicious actors continue to be a substantial risk to key parts of the Internet and its Domain Name System security infrastructure, so much so that The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is calling for an intensified community effort to install stronger DNS security technology. 

Specifically ICANN is calling for full deployment of the Domain Name System Security Extensions (,often called the internet’s phonebook, is part of the global internet infrastructure that translates between common language domain names and IP addresses that computers need to access websites or send emails.  DNSSEC adds a layer of security on top of DNS.

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