DNSSEC Testbed Concluded Successfully – Launch of Extended DNS Protocol Scheduled for 31 May 2011 [news release] DNSSEC (Domain Name Security Extensions) shall improve security for .de domains too in the future. This is the result of the broad-based test phase that ended with today’s concluding meeting. “DNSSEC has successfully passed the operative phase in the testbed,” says DENIC’s CEO, Sabine Dolderer.

[news release] A whole kaleidoscope of hot topics and questions all around the protocol extension DNSSEC and the persistent great interest of the Internet community made the third .de DNSSEC testbed meeting at the premises of DENIC another success. With roughly 60 attendants from the Internet industry and Internet associations a diversified forum of users and providers of services and hard- and software tools supporting DNSSEC met in the offices of DENIC to be informed about the latest developments for combating DNS spoofing, cache poisoning and zone walking and to use the opportunity for networking.

[news release] The “DNSSEC Testbed for Germany” enters the decisive phase: As from 2 March 2010 DENIC gives also second level domains under .de the opportunity to participate in the DNSSEC testbed and to record the related key material. In this process, DENIC initially registers the Key Signing Keys used as Trust Anchor, and then publishes the corresponding DS records in the .de zone accessible in the testbed. Thus, for the first time, the participants in the testbed will receive DNSSEC-secured responses for the second level domains involved

The “DNSSEC Testbed for Germany” has entered a decisive phase: as of 2 March 2010 DENIC has given all second level domains under .DE the opportunity to participate in the DNSSEC testbed and to record their experiences.