Web Hosting News – DENVER, CO – Secure64 Software Corporation today announced the latest release of its popular caching software appliance — Secure64 DNS Cache v2.5 — the most secure caching name server software available. This new version provides support for DNS64, an emerging standard that provides service providers a simple way to transition to IPv6 networks.

Security firm buys DNS company with domainer roots. Congratulations are in order for two people close to the domain name industry — Dan Kimball and Sean Stafford

A domain profiler document on GitHub is providing some interesting insights into the services that Y Combinator startups use to host its services. The breakdown is according to Web host, Email host, DNS Host, Registrar, SSL Issuer and Certificate type.

A diagram depicting DNSSEC implementation involving the key components of the Internet (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Internet infrastructure service provider VeriSign ( www.verisign.com ) announced on Friday it has deployed DNS Security Extensions in the .net zone. The move follows the launch of VeriSign’s new service to ease the implementation of Domain Name System Security Extensions. The signing of .net is now the largest domain extension to be DNSSEC enabled, as the .net zone has more than 13 million domain name registrations worldwide

An image from the Route 53 documentation, describing how to open an account (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud hosting pioneer Amazon ( aws.amazon.com ) added a new service to the mix this week with the beta launch of a DNS service aimed at the customers of its cloud services, with the name Route 53. The service is priced to be compatible with the company’s pay-as-you-go cloud services, offering DNS service at the cost of $1 per hosted zone, per month, with an additional charge of 50 cents per million queries for the first billion queries in a month, and 25 cents per query after that.

An image from the Route 53 documentation, describing how to open an account (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud hosting pioneer Amazon ( aws.amazon.com ) added a new service to the mix this week with the beta launch of a DNS service aimed at the customers of its cloud services, with the name Route 53. The service is priced to be compatible with the company’s pay-as-you-go cloud services, offering DNS service at the cost of $1 per hosted zone, per month, with an additional charge of 50 cents per million queries for the first billion queries in a month, and 25 cents per query after that.

UltraTools.com offers a Domain Health Report (shown above) that includes more than 70 individual tests spanning nine key categories. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Surveillance, clearinghouse, and directory services provider Neustar ( www.neustar.biz ) has launched a new free service that provides a comprehensive set of domain name system tools to help DNS administrators, website managers, and domain owners analyze and optimize their domain and DNS configurations

UltraTools.com offers a Domain Health Report (shown above) that includes more than 70 individual tests spanning nine key categories. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Surveillance, clearinghouse, and directory services provider Neustar ( www.neustar.biz ) has launched a new free service that provides a comprehensive set of domain name system tools to help DNS administrators, website managers, and domain owners analyze and optimize their domain and DNS configurations.

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As from 4 October .be domain names can be signed with DNSSEC Through their registrar, all .BE registrants can attach DNSSEC key material to their .BE domain names, thereby completing the chain of trust all the way up to the root zone. Anyone visiting a website using a DNSSEC signed domain name can be confident to reach the requested website. As of now DNS.be will encourage .BE domain name holders and their registrars to sign .BE domain names with DNSSEC.