CZ.NIC, the registry for the Czech Republic, has announced that 70,000 additional .CZ zones now have been signed, bringing the registry’s total past 87,000 DNSSEC-signed zones as of the time of the announcement.  A counter placed at the bottom of the CZ.NIC homepage shows more than 95,000 zones signed as of this writing.  As a result, the Czech registry is “largest registry in the world that registers domains protected in this way.”

In this video interview, Gray Chynoweth, vice president of business operations for Dyn Inc. interviews Initiative partner Steve Crocker, CEO of Shinkuro Inc., at ICANN 37 in Nairobi, Kenya.

In this post on Twitter, Nominet IT director Simon McCalla announces that .uk is now signed.

We’ve updated the program for the daylong session “What’s Next in DNSSEC” at the FOSE conference and expo, coming up later in March.  Go here to see the current roster of speakers and topics on DNSSEC deployment in the federal government, state government, public-private systems, commercial networks and more.

Over at the Internet Systems Consortium blog, Paul Vixie has offered this post, Whither DNSCurve? to answer the question he frequently gets: “what is DNSCurve and what’s ISC’s position on it given our long involvement in DNSSEC?”  He concludes with this summation:

I want provably correct DNS content to be universally available.  Not just for me but for the entire population of the Internet.  I want to stamp out all forms of DNS intermediation whether by recursive nameserver operators or nation-states or hackers.  Because DNSSEC can do this, ISC has invested a lot of time and money over the last dozen years helping to develop DNSSEC. Because DNSCurve does not do this, and because the problems DNSCurve actually does solve are pretty well solved by UDP source port randomization and will be entirely eradicated by DNSSEC, ISC is not investing in DNSCurve at all.

Nominet has begun signing the .uk country code top-level domain this week, a process expected to conclude March 8. According to the article in PC Advisor, “Nominet will begin signing ‘.co.uk’ – comprising more than 8 million websites – later this year, working with any entity that operates a nameserver, as their software will have to be upgraded for DNSSEC.”