Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) announces the launch of the ISC DLV (DNSSEC Look-aside Validation) registry. ISC, working with accredited ICANN domain name registrars such as TUCOWS, is making available to the world a mechanism to allow domain holders to secure their domain information using the DNSSEC protocol extension to DNS in advance of a signed root or TLD zone.

ISC's DLV registry will increase the Internet's security by enabling domain holders to add cryptographic proof of authenticity to their DNS information, providing additional security and guarantees for customers visiting their websites or exchanging emails.

Paul Vixie, president of ISC, said "DLV is a technology initiative meant to enable DNSSEC deployment. Put simply, if the root isn't signed and TLDs are not signed, the IETF DNSSEC specification offers no way to start wide scale deployment. DLV, developed outside the IETF, offers such a way."

Support for DLV is built into the most current releases of BIND, a freely available reference implementation of the DNS standards used by the vast majority of nameservers in the Internet. BIND is produced and published as open source by ISC and shipped with several operating systems. Support for BIND development is provided via ISC's BIND Forum (http://www.isc.org/sw/guild/) and direct sponsorship.

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