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DNSSEC – Get Ready to Sign Your Zone!

Get Your .ORG Zone signed - Coming Soon!

NamesBeyond is proud to be the first DNSSEC enabled gTLD registrar in today's domain market. If you are interested in getting your .org zone signed, please pre-register here.

DNSSEC(short for DNS Security Extensions) adds security to the Domain name system. Web sites that are signed using DNSSEC cannot be hijacked once a user decides to visit the web site.

DNSSEC enhances web site protection for domain name owners, and also protects your email from being redirected after transmission has begun.

DNSSEC is different from SSL (Secure Certificates) in the following ways:
- SSL provides encryption of web site contents, but ONLY after users have arrived at your web site.
- DNSSEC ensures that no one else can hijack your visitor once they have typed in your web site address in the browser. They cannot be redirected without their knowledge to a spurious web site.
- NamesBeyond offers both SSL and DNSSEC to customers.

DNSSEC provides a form of signed verification for DNS information, which is intended to assure DNS authenticity. What does this mean?
Let’s assume your ISP is hacked, and someone tries to hijack your web site visits or eavesdrop on your visit to a website. If the website you are visiting is not signed with DNSSEC, then your computer does not know whether it is going to the “authentic” site or a fake site. If the website (and domain name) are signed with DNSSEC, then it can make out the difference between a hacked and an unhacked DNS request.

Without DNSSEC, DNS server traffic could be hijacked in a cache poisoning attack redirecting users to arbitrary addresses without user’s knowledge.
NamesBeyond is the very first domain name registrar worldwide to work with the .org registry in providing DNSSEC services. We will post as much information as possible in this site to guide and inform our customers and DNSSEC users.

For more information on DNSSEC please go through the NamesBeyond Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ), technical guide, presentations etc.

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