Company gets recognition for Excellence in Registry Services for DNSSEC and Anti-Abuse efforts.
Afilias, a provider of internet infrastructure services and the Registry operator for .INFO, today announced that it has been awarded a 2010 Excellence in Registry Services award from the Online Trust Alliance. The company says that it 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 role in online safety initiatives over the past year.
It explains that its cyber security initiatives included its Anti-Abuse Policy for the .INFO domain, which has helped .INFO to continuously score one of the lowest phishing uptimes for all generic top-level domains (TLDs). It also includes cross-industry collaboration initiatives which have helped suppress two of the largest cyber-gangs and incidents in the Internet's history, Avalanche and Conficker. In addition, the company has worked to increase implementation of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC), a protection against cache-poisoning and man-in-the-middle attacks.
"We appreciate the recognition of our work to enable a more trustworthy internet and owe thanks to a very cooperative industry, including our domain name registrars who have been responsive in helping us address domain abuse," said Ram Mohan, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Afilias. "We will continue to strengthen our anti-abuse program and will add DNSSEC protection to more than a dozen registries in the months ahead."
"Afilias is committed to defeating abusive uses of domains and, since introducing our anti-abuse policy in 2008, we have demonstrated measurable results in fighting phishing, malware, and spam," added Greg Aaron, Director of Domain Security for Afilias. "Collaboration with our registrars, the Anti-Phishing Working Group, law enforcement, and security vendors and researchers has helped make our efforts successful. This results-oriented approach and expertise sets our registry services apart."
The Online Trust Alliance specifically cited it as exemplifying excellence in online trust "for the commitment to working with the registry community, ICANN, APWG and other organizations advancing DNSSEC and developing .ORG. Their development of tools successfully have helped to block over 2.5 million Conficker domains and aided anti-abuse policies, resulting in the suspension in over 100,000 abusive domains."
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