Kyiv, April 13. Hostmaster, the technical administrator of the .UA domain, completed DNSSEC implementation activities and started using the technology commercially. Today, the international organization ICANN satisfied Hostmaster’s request to make an entry about DNSSEC key for .UA in the root zone of the domain names system (DNS).
This allowed Ukrainian companies to protect their sites from scammers who redirect users to scam sites using loopholes in the DNS. The DNSSEC technology applies digital signatures and guarantees authenticity of domain names.
So far, the technology has been adopted by three companies to protect their sites: RIFT Ltd (Rivne), Netassist (Kyiv), and NIC.UA (Dnipropetrovsk) to ensure safety of the domains rovno.ua, netassist.ua, and nic.ua, respectively.
At the moment, DNSSEC is being used worldwide by more than 70 top level domains (approximately 26% of the total amount), of which 60 are country domains (24%).
