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Untied States government has launched an extensive deployment of DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) on the .gov top-level domain, and some expect that once that rollout is complete, banks and other businesses might be encouraged to follow suit for their sites.

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the arm of the U.S. government that oversees the Internet's DNS infrastructure, has not set a deadline for DNSSEC deployment for the root servers, .com or .net. "A DNSSEC signed root zone would represent one of the most significant changes to the DNS infrastructure since it was created; therefore any changes cannot be taken lightly considering that the Internet DNS is a global infrastructure on which the global economy relies,'' according to an NTIA statement.

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