Deployment of Domain Name System Security Extensions Enhances global security for India
NEW DELHI – 9 November 2010 – Afilias, a global provider of Internet infrastructure services, today announced that it has enabled Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) for the .IN country code top-level domain (TLD) for the country of India, improving global security for this domain which houses over 700,000 .IN domains. .IN was officially signed on November 4, 2010 and its Delegation Signer (DS) records are expected to be entered into the DNS Root by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) shortly, allowing the .IN zone to be validated using DNSSEC.
What are Internationalized Domain Names or IDNs?
Due to the technical limitations of the Internet, domain names can only be registered in ASCII, otherwise known as plain text. International characters such as ö, ç, or Ф, cannot be interpreted by the DNS and therefore cannot reside in a domain name registry as a registered name.Read more...
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Cooperation and knowledge sharing will help emergency response to cyber-security threats
New Delhi, India–February 12, 2008 –Afilias, a global provider of registry services, today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) to share critical information and resources to enhance cyber-security in India and world-wide, increase awareness of important security issues, and to cooperate in emergency response to critical threats.
More than Two Lakh Names Registered with 'in' Domain
NEW DELHI , INDIA – 5 November 2006 –National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) and Afilias India Private Limited announced that the ‘.in’ domain has reached 2,00,0001 registrations, nearly doubling its presence in the market place since last year. The .IN registry has grown to nearly 30 times the initial size of approximately 6500 domains prior to the January 2005 re-launch. The re-launch included a more competitive price, expanded eligibility, a state of the art technology platform, and broader distribution through the global registrar network.
NEW DELHI, INDIA – 17 January 2006 – Afilias Limited today announced
that it has enhanced its registry services in support of the .IN domain to deliver faster, more robust services in India. The .IN domain now joins generic top level domains .info and .org as having the fastest Web site resolution times within the region.
New Delhi, 6 April 2005 - The .IN country code internet domain name Registry services set up by the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) announced today that the .IN domain has surpassed 100,000 registrations in just over 90 days since it was officially re-launched.
Afilias India to provide enhanced technology for liberalization of .IN domain
DUBLIN, IRELAND – 20 December 2004 – Afilias Limited today announced that it's wholly owned subsidiary, Afilias India Pvt. Ltd., has signed an agreement with the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) to provide registry services for the .IN country code Internet domain. Afilias will assist NIXI in the creation of the .IN Registry to implement the recent liberalization of domain registration policies by the Indian Government's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, by broadening the domain's distribution channel, implementing new, state-of-the-art registry technology and enabling near real-time registration of new names.
