Go Daddy Introduces Premium DNS (February 14, 2011) - Company provides 99.999% uptime combined with DNSSEC & easy-to-use control panel.
Go Daddy, a domain name Registrar and hosting provider, today introduced Premium DNS service. The company mentions that there are more than 200 million registered domain names that comprise the Internet, all of them running through DNS - a critical process which matches meaningful domain names (i.e. 'GoDaddy.com') with the numerical IP identifiers to locate that website on a particular server (i.e. 97.74.104.201). Its Premium DNS service provides users with tools to enhance and protect that process.
It avers that through the company's global Anycast (DNS routing) network, Premium DNS service offers faster, more reliable and more secure DNS resolution. Traffic is balanced across its multiple data centers throughout the United States, Europe and Asia, to eliminate a single point of failure and to route DNS activities for maximized performance.
According to the company, Premium DNS users enjoy options such as creating a vanity name and custom DNS Zone templates for their domain name's server, as well as adding multiple users to one account. Customers have the option to perform bulk imports, exports and updates to multiple domain names at the same time. Most significantly, customers are given the option to easily enable DNSSEC - a security tool that authenticates DNS records when an internet user tries to visit their domain name. By assigning a specially-encrypted key to validate the DNS lookup, this tool can help prevent traffic from being diverted to a malicious computer and compromised, as part of an internet attack. It adds that the company's Premium DNS service offers a simple 'one-click' solution to set up DNSSEC - simplifying a process usually riddled with complexities.
It says that typically, DNS management can be expensive to operate, not to mention confusing. But the company is now offering this ability through a user-friendly approach, at a fraction of competitor prices - all backed with its free, 24/7 customer support.
"Go Daddy customers not only take pride in their online presence, but many also depend on it for their business," said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. "With the customization tools we provide through Premium DNS, customers can easily tailor their DNS functionality and - it comes with a 99.999 percent uptime guarantee!"
VeriSign Deploys DNS Security Extensions in .NET Zone (December 10, 2010) - Process of securing Domain Name System builds on effort to protect DNS data from cache poisoning and man-in-the-middle attacks.
VeriSign, Inc., a provider of internet infrastructure services, today announced that it has deployed DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) in the .NET zone. The company mentions that the .NET zone is the largest yet to be DNSSEC enabled, with more than 13 million domain name registrations worldwide. The .NET signing also represents one of the most critical implementations of DNSSEC technology, since .NET serves as the underpinning for many critical internet functions.
It explains that DNSSEC applies digital signatures to DNS data to authenticate the data's origin and verify its integrity as it moves throughout the Internet. The security extensions are designed to protect the DNS from attacks intended to redirect queries to malicious sites by corrupting DNS data stored on recursive servers. The successful implementation of DNSSEC will greatly reduce a hacker's ability to manipulate DNS data. The resulting digital signatures on that DNS data are validated through a 'chain of trust'.
The company states that the .NET milestone is the latest achievement in its efforts to improve the integrity of internet communications and transactions by implementing DNSSEC throughout the DNS. By protecting the .NET zone with DNSSEC, it can now include DNSSEC-enabled records from domain name Registrars in its authoritative .NET Registry. Today's milestone follows months of deliberate and rigorous testing of DNSSEC, and builds on the company's collaboration with EDUCAUSE and the U.S. Department of Commerce to deploy DNSSEC in the .EDU zone earlier this year. It adds that the company expects to sign .COM by first quarter 2011.
The company further explains that a key part of its DNSSEC collaboration with the Internet community is its operation of the DNSSEC Interoperability Lab. Staffed by the company personnel, the lab helps solution and service providers determine if DNS packets containing DNSSEC information, which are typically larger than standard DNS packets, will cause problems for their internet and enterprise infrastructure components. The lab is helping to ensure that the entire internet communications ecosystem is ready for DNSSEC.
It further states that its DNSSEC initiatives also dovetail with Project Apollo, the company's effort to dramatically scale up the Internet infrastructure that delivers DNS from its current levels by a factor of a thousand. Doing so will help to manage an estimated 4 quadrillion queries per day in 2020. The Apollo effort follows on the heels of the successful completion of the company' Project Titan that aimed to improve DNS infrastructure tenfold over 2007 levels. Project Apollo is designed to move beyond Titan, to help the company meet the Internet infrastructure challenges of the next decade.
"VeriSign's roll-out of DNSSEC is on schedule with the signing of .NET in 2010. The DNS data associated with .NET registrations will be protected from many hackers and identity thieves trying to redirect users' queries to malicious sites through cache poisoning," said Raynor Dahlquist, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Naming Services at VeriSign. "There is, however, more work to be done, as ISPs, browser vendors, Registrars and other members of the DNS ecosystem confirm that their solutions and services are ready for DNSSEC enablement. We'll continue to work with all of those parties to shepherd a stable deployment of DNSSEC, particularly as we prepare to sign the .COM zone in Q1 2011."
"Go Daddy works to keep the Internet safe for all users, and DNSSEC is an important additional step toward keeping the infrastructure more secure," said Warren Adelman, President and Chief Operating Officer of GoDaddy.com, a domain name Registrar. "That's why Go Daddy supports DNSSEC for .NET. We believe DNSSEC helps us continue providing our customers with what they want and need - security and reliability."
Parallels Announces the Availability of Plesk Panel 10 (November 3, 2010) - Enables service providers to more easily deliver profitable services to hosting customers.
Parallels, a provider of virtualization and automation software, yesterday announced that it has made version 10 of its flagship control panel, Parallels Plesk Panel, generally available, enabling service providers to more easily deliver profitable services to hosting customers.
According to it, Parallels Plesk Panel 10 includes more than 100 new features including key improvements to user interface, the breadth of applications, VPS environment density, and site building capabilities. Panel 10 is designed to help service providers launch new services, expand their existing service offerings, and reduce the churn in their business, as small businesses continue to increase their adoption of hosting and cloud based services.
The company articulates that in order to address the needs of various camps, it has now bundled two components at no charge into the product: Parallels SiteBuilder, and Customer and Business Manager. SiteBuilder provides SMBs an easy wizard to build a website and update website content. Customer and Business Manager gives hosts a completely integrated billing, ordering and payment processing solution. Top cloud and hosting firms including Go Daddy (www.godaddy.com) and Softlayer (www.softlayer.com) are already making Parallels Plesk Panel 10 available to their customers.
It explains that Panel 10 provides an integrated application marketplace, Parallels Partner Storefront, which enables hosts to easily sell hundreds of commercial applications without integration or development costs. This marketplace gives customers single-click access to hundreds of applications, enabling them to find a customized solution to meet their specific needs. Parallels Plesk Panel 10 also offers a special VPS-optimized version of Parallels Plesk Panel for VPS providers that reduces the memory footprint by up to three times compared to the standard version, and is 20 to 40 percent more efficient than competitors, according to the company.
"We've looked at some of the key audiences using Parallels Plesk Panel - shared web hosters, web designers, and SMBs, and Parallels Plesk Panel 10 is an absolute game changer for them," Parallels Marketing and Alliances President Jack Zubarev said in a statement. "With this new version, Parallels reduces the complexity involved in running a hosting business, enables seamless access to commercial applications through Partner Storefront, and delivers some powerful enhancements to the user interface such as power-user mode."
"The comprehensive features of Parallels Plesk Panel 10 enable us to enhance our offerings, automate our business and increase our company's revenue," Softlayer Chief Strategy Officer George Karidis said in a statement. "Parallels Plesk Panel 10 makes it simple and easy for our partners to launch hundreds of applications with a single click."
"Many of Go Daddy's 8.5 million customers are small businesses who want to leverage the Internet to improve their business," Go Daddy President and Chief Operating Officer Warren Adelman said in a statement. "The cloud services we offer with Parallels Plesk Panel 10 make it easy for administrators to manage their online businesses more efficiently."
"We have been using Parallels Plesk Panel for eight years and find it invaluable for our business but one of the most efficient elements of the product is the role-based access that ensures each employee gets the information they need in the fastest possible time," said Kathy Nelson, chief decision maker at Ovaleye (www.ovaleye.com), a premier web host for women in business. "It really is helping us be more efficient and grow our business through the rapid deployment of cloud services."
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