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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

-- Community of technical experts will work together to ensure a safer and more

secure Domain Name System

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is launching

the Knowledge-sharing and Instantiating Norms for DNS and Naming Security

(KINDNS) initiative to make the Internet safer and more resilient for all

users. By collaborating with a global community of technical experts, ICANN is

developing a clear framework of operational best practices for Domain Name

System (DNS) security.

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KINDNS is just one of many ICANN efforts underway to promote broad

participation among public and private actors to make the Internet safer, and

more secure and interoperable.

"As the Internet has grown and come to play a greater role in our everyday

lives, DNS security has never been more critical," said John Crain, ICANN's

Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. "While various best

practices exist for DNS operations, they are inconsistently applied and at

times have led to significant security breaches that affect the whole Internet."

To mitigate this, ICANN collaborated with the technical community to create

KINDNS as a mechanism to share best practices to better secure DNS operations.

The result is a simple, effective framework that large and small DNS operators

can voluntarily and easily follow. For example, a good practice shared through

KINDNS aims at ensuring domain name servers are geographically and

topologically diverse (KINDNS Practice-5 of Authoritative and Recursive servers

operators). Another example is to encourage operators to enable Domain Name

System Security Extensions (DNSSEC), both through Authoritative server

signatures and the Resolver validating these signatures. DNSSEC is a technology

developed to assure that Internet users reach their desired online destination

by helping to prevent some types of attacks (KINDNS Practice-1 of Authoritative

and Recursive servers operators).

Internet service providers, corporate IT managers, DNS service operators and

software developers are invited to adopt the best practices promoted by KINDNS

on its website and help promote the program. To learn how, visit the KINDNS

dedicated website here (

https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3638979-1&h=3572381438&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kindns.org%2F&a=here

) .

About ICANN

ICANN's mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global

Internet. To reach another person on the Internet, you need to type an address

– a name or a number – into your computer or other device. That address must be

unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN helps coordinate and

support these unique identifiers across the world. ICANN was formed in 1998 as

a nonprofit public benefit corporation with a community of participants from

all over the world.

Source - ICANN

CONTACT: Alexandra Dans, Communications Director, The Americas, Montevideo,

Uruguay, +598 95 831 442, alexandra.dans@icann.org, Or press@icann.org