Today Afilias, a leading provider of Internet infrastructure services, announced key feature updates to its Managed DNS Services that will enhance user account security, portfolio management, and traffic reporting.

“Afilias’ Managed DNS Services allow corporations to have world-class DNS service from a proven provider to manage traffic to their domain names with the peace of mind of 100 percent uptime, guaranteed,” said John Kane, Vice President of Corporate Services for Afilias. “We continue to enhance our system with simple, easy-to-use features that enable our customers to easily manage large or small portfolios of domains on a reliable DNS network supporting over 14 million domains today.”

The new feature enhancements to Afilias’ Managed DNS Service include:

• SMS Alerts, a new account security feature used to authenticate password reset and defend against account hijacking.
• New portfolio management tools that allow for simplified bulk domain management including import and export functionality. Additional management tools include domain folders and user groups to organize and manage large portfolios of domains and user permissions.
• Enhanced reporting suite that allows for near real-time data export and graphing based on a variety of parameters including expanded regional and country analysis.

About Afilias Managed DNS Services
Afilias’ state of the art DNS network ensures security and resiliency through a diverse architecture that no other service provider can replicate. Its multi-layered, tiered design uses multiple hardware and software solutions, multiple bandwidth providers, and is dispersed across numerous geographic locations, ensuring no single points of failure and 100 percent uptime guaranteed. Afilias’ DNS network is further strengthened by supplemental external DNS support that augments Afilias’ own resolution systems. Afilias’ system also supports DNSSEC. To learn more about Afilias’ Managed DNS Service and all of the new service features please visit: www.afilias.info/dns