A new open source alternative to the popular BIND domain name system (DNS) server makes its worldwide debut today with the public release of Unbound 1.0.

From today's report: Released to open source developers by NLnet Labs, VeriSign, Nominet, and Kirei, Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS server designed as a high-performance alternative for BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain). Unbound will be supported by NLnet Labs.

"We have released the software under the BSD license that allows use in other products without any major restrictions," said Olaf Kolkman, director of NLnet Labs, a not-for-profit research and development foundation in the Netherlands. "We hope that making our software freely available will aid the deployment of DNSSEC, which fits straight into NLnet Labs charter."

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