Registry Services

PIR Becomes The First gTLD Registry to Offer an Automated Registrar Accreditation System (ARAS)

The goal of ARAS is to reduce the time and effort involved for ICANN accredited registrars to sell .ORG domains, by enabling all the steps to be done very quickly and safely in a secure online environment.

Afilias Receives Excellence in Online Trust Award from the Online Trust Alliance

Afilias was recognized on Thursday, September 23rd at the Online Trust Alliances' fifth annual 2010 Excellence in Online Trust Awards in Washington D.C. for its innovative leadership role in online safety initiatives over the past year.

AusRegistry International Appoints Krista Papac as Chief Strategy Officer

AusRegistry International today announced that it has appointed Krista Papac to the role of Chief Strategy Officer, in a move that reinforces the organisation's commitment to becoming an industry-leading provider of Domain Name Registry Services.

Neustar Deploys DNSSEC and Registry Lock for .BIZ Domain Name

Neustar, Inc. announced today that .BIZ is the first top-level domain (TLD) to deploy both DNS security extensions (DNSSEC) and the Registry Lock service. Neustar is the registry administrator for the .BIZ TLD as designated by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and is the first company to announce these improvements.

.ORG the Public Interest Registry Announced Today That Alexa Raad Has Resigned as President and CEO

The Board of Directors of .ORG the Public Interest Registry announced today that Alexa Raad, the President and Chief Executive Officer of PIR, has decided to resign from her positions with the company effective on September 24th, 2010. Her resignation concludes 3 1/2 years of service and leadership at PIR.

Afilias’ Project Safeguard to Boost Global DNSSEC Deployment by 50 Percent

Afilias, a global provider of Internet infrastructure services, today announced that it will deploy Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) across its registry platforms, signing 13 more top-level domains (TLDs) and increasing DNSSEC deployment among domain registries by 50 percent.

.ORG, The Public Interest Registry Releases Results of Bi-Annual Domain Name Report, “The Dashboard”

In the first six months of 2010, the .ORG domain grew by 7.6 percent -- more than doubling last year's first half gain of 3.2 percent. This increase in registrations has brought .ORG's total domains under management to an astounding 8.5 million.

Registrar DNSSEC Implementation Cheat Sheet

To ensure that all of our registrars know what to consider as they plan out their DNSSEC implementation, take a note of "Registrar Implementation Cheat Sheet," written by Shinkuro and Sparta that outlines operational considerations a Registrar should review, including important topics such as NSEC vs. NSEC3, Key Length, and Key Rollovers, as they plan their DNSSEC implementation.

Internationalised Domain Names Set to Take Off with Approval of IDNA 2008 Protocol

The body responsible for the development and promotion of Internet Standards (the Internet Engineering Task Force or IETF), has approved IDNA 2008 as the official Internet protocol for Internationalised Domain Names by publishing the Internet Drafts as official RFCs.

BlueCat Networks Selects Afilias to Power New DNS Offering

BlueCat Networks, the IPAM Intelligence company, has selected Afilias' FlexDNS Platform to power its new DNS offering; Proteus Cloud Services is the first service that fully integrates internal and external DNS with centralized IP Address Management (IPAM).