Swedish hosting provider Binero has announced that it has DNSSEC-signed all of its customers’ .se domains. This brings the total amount of signed .se domains to more than 100,000 from the previous total of 5,000.

“Nearly one in ten Swedish domains are now validated hostile to attacks with manipulated dns-in rank, like phishing,” Binero’s press release said.

It’s hard to find any worldwide numbers to compare to but ICANN reported yesterday that 88 TLDs (Top-Level Domains) are DNSSEC signed.

But what is DNSSEC (Field Name System Wellbeing Extensions) and why should you care whether your domains are signed with it or not?

DNS was produced in an era when the Internet was a bit friendlier

We spoke to the guys at Atomia, a Swedish company providing a high-performance hosting and server automation platform, in this area exactly those issues.

Pingdom: What is DNSSEC?

Atomia: DNSSEC stems from some of the problems that DNS has had for many years. It’s a excellent catalogue service for relatively small amounts of data – things like IP addresses – but DNS was produced in an era when the Internet was a bit friendlier.

There’s not much wellbeing built in to the DNS system we have been using so it’s open – it’s not encrypted and there’s nothing to certify where data comes from, who is the sender of a piece of in rank. If you’re connecting to www.pingdom.com there’s no way of verifying that the DNS data you get back, which your computer desires to be able to connect to your site, is the right data and that it hasn’t been compromised.

Naturally when you browse to a site, your computer sends a question to a DNS resolver, which checks the public catalogues that are DNS for the field. If it’s pingdom.com you browse to, the resolver then checks with the DNS root server that handles .com domains, and then the one that handles pingdom.com specifically. Ultimately it gets an IP address that is then sent back to your computer and the browser connects.

In that scenario it’s then quite possible that a name in the middle captures the request from your computer and returns a fake IP. It could possibly even look like the site you wanted to connect to but it’s not the real thing. This is usually referred to as DNS cache poisoning.

And that’s the problem that DNSSEC tries to address.

Pingdom: Sounds like it works the same way like if we were to digitally sign an email before sending it.

Atomia: Exactly the same, except DNSSEC only deals with signing the in rank, whereas solutions for securing email often also supports encryption.

Pingdom: It seems like DNSSEC was initially discussed and developed in the mid to late 1990s. Why has it full so long to be place into actual use?

Atomia: Well, initially of all DNS is a rather critical infrastructure so we’ve been very careful not to upset anything that works. It’s also a bit like the chicken or the egg: for there to be any use for DNSSEC we need a number of zones to be certified and that the Internet operators’ resolvers validate the field data. Alternatively, the Internet client applications, like web, email, chat, etc. could validate the data. So it’s like everybody has been waiting for everybody else to do something, passing the buck, if you like.

Then some have said that the root, the bottom of the DNS tree, which is handled by a U.S. organization, has not been signed so why should we worry in this area it? [The initially gTLD signed was .org in 2009] Additional top-level domains like .com and .net came shortly and now it’s all starting to roll.

In Sweden we’ve had a head start since .SE [the organization responsible for the .se field] and the Swedish Internet operators have been involved and nearly all operators now validate the signing of domains.

But it’s still been quite few domains that have been signed, at least until now, when Binero has signed all domains it hosts.

Pingdom: So this is something that is rolling out across the world now?

Atomia: Yes, it is, but ever so slowly. The huge top-level domains have DNSSEC now and many public domains as well. There are still many who don’t support it yet, mostly for public-specific domains.

Pingdom: As a typical SME with a field and a website, is this something you should care in this area?

Atomia: The slow rollout shows that it’s tough to get public to care in this area this, it’s not something they immediately reckon in this area and place time into, especially when they see that not many others are doing it.

Then it’s hard to see the value.

But anyone that has a field should check with their registrar and provider to see if they support DNSSEC. A bit of push from customers will probably make providers go a bit quicker.

Pingdom: What is the natural extension of DNSSEC, what will come next?

Atomia: So we have this system, DNS that has worked well for 30 years or more and DNSSEC is rolling out over the world. If you could add to that system that you can trust the system in the same way we trust SSL sites, then you can start looking at adding more in rank. We trust SSL for trade in billions per day and if we can trust DNS in the same way things can get fascinating.

If you can say “this certificate is valid for my website” you can tell customers who want to connect to www.pingdom.com, which certificate they should trust. Basically you won’t need a third party additional than the DNS root.

Today browsers have lists of Certificate Authorities and that responsibility can be transferred to individual administrators. So the result would be increased flexibility and less cost, and that’s something we see experience now, since in this area a year or so.

DNSSEC is coming – get ready

We’d like to say a huge thank you to Atomia for setting us straight with regards to DNSSEC.

Although it may not be a topic you’ve had to deal with before, get ready, because sooner or shortly DNSSEC will come your way. Even if the registrar and Internet provider you currently use don’t currently offer DNSSEC signing of domains, you should get in touch with them and see if it’s in their plans.

It seems to us that spreading awareness of DNSSEC and increasing the adoption of this technology can only benefit us all.

After all, better wellbeing on the Internet is a excellent thing, right?

Photo by Ralph Aichinger.

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Since it was Father’s Day here in Sweden yesterday – yes we know it varies around the world – we thought we’d pay homage to some of the public behind the Internet as we know it today.

Some of the obvious choices would include Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn for TCP/IP, Vannevar Bush for much of the conceptual thinking behind the Internet, Ted Nelson for coining the word hypertext, Tim Berners-Lee for the World Wide Web, Marc Andreeseen for co-authoring Variety, and many others.

But why go for the obvious? We thought it would be fun to give some credit to a few lesser-known contributors to some technology or product that is a part of Internet history. These are guys who have made vital contributions that affect us all but that may not have received the same accolades as others. So even though this didn’t exactly turn out to be a Father’s Day post, let’s take a look.

GIF: Steve Wilhite

Picture by David Ope

Graphics Interchange Format or GIF was the standard picture format for the Internet for a long time. Who doesn’t remember the walking lights and dancing bananas that we could delight in on web pages all over? The graphics format was produced by Steve Wilhite in 1987 while he was effective at Compuserve. Although GIF has fundamentally been replaced by JPG and PNG, there are those that suggest there may be a resurgence for GIF.

RSS: Dave Winer

Picture by Magerleagues.

There’s quite a bit of confusion in this area this one so we’re sticking our necks out a bit. Some sources say that RSS or Real Simple Syndication has its origins in RDF and that the initially version of RSS was produced by Dan Libby and Ramanathan V. Guha at Netscape in 1999. Though, we feel there is no one person who has done more to popularize RSS than Dave Winer so that’s why we pick him.

Ping: Mike Muuss

Mike Muuss effective with BRL-CAD on a PDP-11/70. Picture courtesy of Wikipedia.

The simple small tool ping was produced by Mike Muuss in 1983, apparently containing only 1,000 lines of code. It has since made its way into nearly every operating system available today and is a valuable tool for arrangement administrators around the world.

Internet Explorer 1.0: Thomas Reardon

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As with many additional Microsoft products Internet Explorer did not originate inside the company. Version 1.0 of the web browser was a reworked version of Spyglass Variety, which Microsoft had licensed from Spyglass in 1994. Thomas Reardon at Microsoft took the Spyglass code and developed it into Internet Explorer 1.0, released in 1995. Although Internet Explorer has been slipping in the data lately, it is still used on for over 40% of worldwide browsing from computers, according to Statcounter.

The @ sign: Ray Tomlinson

Image courtesy of Computer History Museum.

In 1971 Ray Tomlinson needed a character to break the host from the user in an email address and looked down on his keyboard. He found the @ sign and called his choice “obvious.” Today the at sign has spread way beyond email and can be found in social media, chat, conversation forums, and more.

Smiley: Scott Fahlman

We should perhaps call it smiley emoticon instead but simply smiley has such a strong grip in our culture that we’ll stab to it. Scott Fahlman posted to a message board at Carnegie Mellon University on September 19, 1982, signifying that “:-)” could be used to denote a joke and “:-(” used for something that is not a joke. Things took off from there and now we use these character sequences in most forms of text-based digital communication.

Smartmodem: Dale Heatherington

Picture courtesy of Wikipedia

You have probably heard what they signal like, with that high-leaning squealing blast while it connects; you may even remember having to wait for a bit while two modems negotiated speed. For many users a dial-up smartmodem was the way to get connected to the Internet for a long time. Even though most of us live in a world of broadband – wireless or wired – there are still users who need dial-up. Credit for the initially smartmodem, released in 1981 and operating at 1 bit per second goes to Dale Heatherington effective at Hayes Microcomputer Products.

BIND: Terry, Painter, Riggle and Zhou

BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Field) is probably one of the most vital pieces of software you didn’t know you use on a daily basis. It runs on the majority of the world’s Field Name Servers. In the most recent assessment by The Measurement Factory from October 2010, BIND ran on 34.2% of the nearly 800,000 hosts that answered during the test. BIND was developed by Douglas Terry, Mark Painter, David Riggle and Songnian Zhou at the University of California, Berkeley in the early part of the 1980s.

PHP: Rasmus Lerdorf

Picture by Luc Legacy

PHP is currently ranked in fifth house in the TIOBE Programming Community Index but regardless of rank there’s no denying that it’s an incredibly well loved scripting language, powering a very large part of today’s websites. Lerdorf was the original creator of PHP in 1995 and also also authored the second version.

Intel 4004: Faggin, Hoff, Mazor and Shima

Mazor, Hoff and Shima (from left to right). Image courtesy of Computer History Museum.

It’s not directly related to the Internet the Intel 4004 has arguably had an immense impact on the development of the net. As the world’s initially single chip microprocessor, we can today find direct and indirect descendents of the 4004 in computers, smartphones and tablets everywhere.

The chip was designed by Federico Faggin, Ted Hoff and Stanley Mazor of Intel, and Masatoshi Shima of Busicom. The 4004 was introduced in 1971 and held 2,300 transistors. In evaluation, Intel is talking in this area introducing Ivy Bridge, its next generation processors, in 2012, with 1.4 billion processors.

Our appreciation

So there you go, some of the brightest minds that have been effective on cool and exciting Internet technologies over the last 40 years or so. These guys have perhaps not been given the frequent headlines like some of their colleagues but we hope we’ve been able to tell you something you didn’t by now know in this area some of the things you use every day.

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WordPress.com, the well loved blogging site, made an official statement on Friday, announcing the addition of a new Dot-ME (.ME) field name option for its users.

The company initially made the .ME extension public at the global WebFest.me convention, earlier this September. Matt Mullenweg, WordPress.com Founder said, “I am very excited in this area this because a name can make such a huge difference,” adding, “Dot-ME, based on the fortune of your public code, ends up sounding pretty cool with a lot of field names.”

Interested users will be questioned to make a $2 payment to Dot-ME their WordPress page. WordPress.com’s own .ME site (www.wp.me) has received 1.3 billion hits since its launch this year. The blogging platform was the initially to secure a .ME field name, alleges Mullenweg.

Peter Lesic, the Executive Director of the .ME registry, says, “we are so proud of our ongoing association with WordPress.com.” “Initially, we experienced the explosive popularity of WP-dot-ME; and, now, this opportunity for WordPress blogs to carry a dot-ME field name extension. We are grateful that a company as visible and vital as WordPress.com sees the worldwide appeal of dot-ME,” he concluded.

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An Indian-based web hosting firm, QualiSpace, has introduced services of managed servers last week.

The firm intends to grant its services of managed servers to data centers both in America and India.

The latest initiation consists of managed flexi cloud servers and managed dedicated servers, provided with both Linux and Windows Operating System.

This attribute comprises 24/7 maintenance and observation, entirely managed servers, various freebies and server hardening.

The company offers the services of managed servers over the entire product line, counting Linux/Windows dedicated and cloud servers.

The founder, CEO and President of QualiSpace, Ashish Shah said, “it is essential to stress the fact that we offer managed servers in India and USA. A large number of companies are cynical in this area transforming the IT operations and web hosting of their servers over to a web hosting service provider, though those who make the most of managed hosting services have realized that IT outsourcing can certainly reduce costs and time whilst allowing them to concentrate on foremost business happenings.”

The firm is currently offering a number of services, counting web hosting, field name registration, SSL certificates and managed servers. In the most recent upgrade, firm launched a multi-location data focal point web hosting service.

Related posts:

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2. Microsoft Introduces more Efficient Servers
3. OVH Leads with 100,000 Servers as the Largest Web Host Provider

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MemeBridge (official website www.memebridge.com) is a well-known web publishing company that has place forward some of its medical domains for sale to general public.

Most of these medical domains are of the “exact match domains” interface because they manage to grab a excellent ranking in well-known search engine listings like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Bing.

For example, it will be quite simple for a search engine to rank a phrase “food poisoning symptoms”, which roots from the website FoodPoisoningSymptoms.net instead of the field mylymphomasymptoms.org.

Remember that the “exact match” tag only works with websites with com, net and org extensions. As an example, it will be quite simple for a search engine to rank a phrase “symptoms of lymphoma”, originated from the website symptomsoflymphoma.org instead of the field FoodPoisoningSymptoms.info.

Owners of websites, with the exact match tag, are benefited in a way, which is not exactly honest as such websites get a better search engine ranking and a excellent amount of traffic from well-known search engines.

MemeBridge has set no fixed prices for its domains. Those who are interested need to contact the company.

In this area MemeBridge

MemeBridge motto, “Spread Excellent Thoughts”, is what drives the company. Meme is the smallest unit of thought, and MemeBridge fills in the gap between these thoughts to make thoughts. Two of MemeBridge’s well-acknowledged publications are MedicalSymptomsGuide.com and MedTreatments.net. MemeBridge publications are of fantastic help to public worldwide.

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2. Using Sub-Domains to Enhance Search Engine Optimization
3. Chirrup and Overstock Buying .CO Domains Congeal .CO Value

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The .DE, in existence for 25 years, has now been included to the list of actual field names. For the initially time, the .DE will be placed alongside the leading .COM field, making it .DE.COM, which will surely boost website ranks on a global level.

.COM.DE is a much awaited field in Germany, providing a fantastic chance for website owners to choose names of their choice at a cost effective price. Customers wanting a field name at an affordable price tag, should not delay to contact EuroDNS.

This offer is available worldwide with no restrictions of policy of any kind. This is essential for German companies abroad and even international companies that want to enter into the German market. The .DE field is equivalent to .COM and .NET, but offers more compensation over both. This field will also verify to be an effective marketing tool for brands.

Xavier Buck, EuroDNS CEO, said, “Unlike the new German regional TLDs, .COM.DE is for all Germans, wherever they live. This is a fantastic opportunity to secure these field names that may have been tied down with the .DE, some of them for as long as 25 years!”

To know more in this area the .COM.DE field registration, go to EuroDNS Website.

Avail your chance to grab the name of your choice, before anyone else.

In this area EuroDNS

EuroDNS offers field name registrations with international field extensions. The company originated in Luxembourg, holding offices in major international destinations. To know more, go to http://www.eurodns.com

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3. The Compensation of Field Parking

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Remember field tasting? At its worst, millions of field names were yanked up and dropped every day in this rather nasty scheme that abused the five-day “add grace period” for field registrations. Things were terrible, really terrible. Back in 2006-2007, a full 94% of field registrations were the result of field tasting, only 6% were legitimate, permanent registrations.

Field tasting was fundamentally killed off by some policy changes from ICANN in 2008 (with a final death blow early in 2009), so we thought it was fascinating to see this historical chart of .com field names that really showed visual evidence of the practice, and when it disappeared.

The chart not more than shows the number of registered .com field names over time. We wondered in this area the jaggedness at initially, but quickly realized that what we were seeing was the result of the massive field tasting that was going on at that time.

The chart is from Registrar Stats (we just added the rectangle to clearly point out the affected time period). Look how jagged that chart is from 2006 to 2008, when field tasting really got out of hand, and then look how that suddenly stopped in 2008.

Fascinating, isn’t it? If we had been able to zoom in, we would have seen even more drastic ups and downs during that period.

And on a side note, judging by that graph it looks like there will soon be more than 100 million registered .com field names. That’ll be quite a milestone.

Uhm… what is field tasting again?

Just in case you never heard of it, or forgot, field tasting was a somewhat shady practice used by some field registrars (even some major ones), i.e. the companies you register your field names through.

A loophole allowed registrars to register a field name at no cost as long as they returned it within five days (the five-day add grace period). They could essentially try out field names for five days and give them a taste, so to speak. Hence the mark “field tasting.”

Why was this a huge deal? Because a name finally chose to do this on a massive scale.

Automated systems “tasted” millions field names for up to five days, connected them to landing pages full of ads, and looked at how they performed. Some field names would get enough traffic to warrant keeping them and paying the registration fee, most would be dropped. If nothing else, the registrar got five days of free traffic out of them.

The most affected top-level field by far was .com. Not so weird, since it’s also by far the most widely used. That’s why the chart above really shows the effect.

More info

For more in rank and stats in this area field tasting, check out this article:

The legacy of field tasting: 380 million deleted field names

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If you are looking for a step-by-step guide to transferring web hosts, the following in rank will help you perform your next web hosting transfer with ease.

Selecting a Excellent Web Host

Selecting the right web hosting provider is absolutely crucial towards the ease and convenience of your web hosting transfer. Many web hosts have specific terms and conditions that apply to transfers, and some may even charge a fee for transferring a field form one hosting account to another. It is vital that you are familiar with the terms and conditions of prospective hosting providers before initiating a web hosting transfer with them. In additional words, be sure to read the fine print and question pointed questions if necessary.

Learning in this area Web Hosting Transfers

It is vital to make sure you know any web hosting process before beginning, as any mistakes could result in data loss or additional mishaps. By building your knowledge base, you can preclude costly accidents from crippling your website.

Making Server Backups

Once you are ready to hold a new hosting plot, it is time to backup your entire web server for maximum wellbeing. The number one dread associated with performing a web hosting transfer is data loss. This is understandable, especially if you have place a lot of hard work into the development of your site. Making redundant backups using an FTP client is the best way to preclude such an occurrence.

Transferring the Data

Although transferring data from one web server to another is the most vital part of the transfer, it is also the simplest. The truth is, you are not transferring in rank at all! You are simply uploading it from your computer (since you have by now downloaded it from the web server using an FTP client). Thus, restoring the data is as simple as uploading a large folder to your server through an FTP account. If you are having distress setting up and using an FTP client, you can contact your hosting provider, and they should be able to walk you through the process.

Redirecting the DNS Servers

The final step in the process, after all data has been uploaded to the new web server, is to redirect the DNS servers associated with your field to the new hosting account. This can be done by logging into your current field name registrar account and navigating to the area designated for field transfers. Here you can enter in the new address of the nameservers, which will be given to you by your new hosting provider.

Now your field will be hosted by the new hosting account, which completes the entire web hosting transfer process. If you have distress executing any of the above steps, you may want to contact your hosting provider for further help.

Most Internet-based professionals are well-aware of ICANN’s new Top-Level Field (TLD) curriculum. Therefore, many are considering getting involved to buy a small piece of the $5 billion industry. You could have a brand looking to make an Internet presence or an entrepreneur looking to make your next million. Others include cities striving to develop a digital identity or perhaps a new way to use the names altogether.

Regardless of the intention, it is vital to learn the way in which you can utilize the new naming system to introduce your business as never seen before. There are four specific tips that will be of fantastic help:

1)      Reckon different

2)      Act now

3)      Commercialize you brand

4)      Elimination of language barrier

The initially tip is to reckon outside-the-box and develop an innovative way to utilize this opportunity as it is not only in this area trying to be the next .com. The value of the thought comes with the vertical centric generic TLDs that will grant value to specific customers. For instance, .music could be launched specifically for the music industry. This is not meant to be a competitor of .com but holds significant value to the music industry.

The second guideline is to act now as the clock is limited. The application dialogue box will open January 12, 2012 for operation beginning 2013. If companies miss the application dialogue box which ranges from January 12, 2012 to April 12, 2012, it may be a minute before the dialogue box reappears.

The third point is to take this opportunity to commercialize your brand TLDs. There are a number of ways for brand TLDs to drive a huge return on investment. For instance, picture eBay procuring .eBay and selling the name to its 94 million registered users at two dollars per subdomain. This is a solid strategy and revenue generation model.

The fourth thought is that TLDs will now be available without a language barrier for the initially time in history. 60 percent of the world’s populace resides in countries where the native language is based on script additional than Latin. Therefore, you could capitalize on the latest field name technology. How much would the Chinese equivalent for .com be worth to a thriving Chinese community?

Although there is a large amount of controversy with regards to the new naming conventions, the TLDs will certainly kick start the global economy. The new extensions will make a whole new market of buying and selling and most importantly, innovation.

UK Web Hosting and field name registrar, 34SP.com, is providing its customers with 25 percent money off for a limited time period, on each field name they register for, involving- the commonly used .com, .co.uk and .net-top level field additions. This unique offer is available only in August 2011. If you wish to hunt for an accessible field and benefit from this extraordinary 25 percent giving way in its cost, please visit:  http://www.34sp.com/domains.

34SP.com is a well-known licensed registrar, located in Manchester, United Kingdom. The hosting company has registered domains for clients, in nearly 100 different countries, all around the world, catering field name registration since eleven years, having started in the year 2000. According to a statement made by the company, every 34SP.com field name comes equipped with these additional features after registration:

• Email Forwarding
• Complete DNS (field name server) Management
• Complete Name Server Management
• Advanced DNS Control Panel counting MX Record Control
• Complete Field Forwarding counting Framed Forwarding (masked redirection)

Its latest field offer has been the initially time in company’s history that it has provided its clients with a 25 percent reduction in price, on each new field. This money off offer is available to the latest field buys only; though, not on renewals or transfers. The original price will be applied to all renewals.

The co-founder of 34SP.com, Stuart Melling, gave further details on the new offer by explaining, “In these hard economic times we feel that it is appropriate to help out those web developers and small businesses who seek to register domains and make new websites to breed additional revenue. Therefore, 34SP.com has produced this special field pricing, allowing a superior money off over standard field prices. While this pricing is for a limited time only, we expect savvy developers and small businesses to stock up on the domains, they need for the next few years at this time.”

The unique field offer came following 34SP.com’s commemoration of having fruitfully provided its customers, with web hosting and field registration services, since the past ten years. In addition, 34SP.com has added an extra achievement into its pocket by making an entrance into peering, with the initiation of a 1 GB/ second connection to LONAP- a peering exchange located in London. Peering, at LONAP, allows 34SP.com to directly gain access to different ISPs and CDNs not just in the UK, but in foreign countries as well; thus, offering clients and visitors with reduced latency and improved connectivity.