NA-NiC introduce DNSSEC

After being the first African ccTLD to implement a fully automated Domain Name Register in 2007, .NA® is the the 7th ccTLD and only the 10th TLD worldwide (and the first in Africa and/or in a Developing country) to sign its zone as of 2009-09-01.

The DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) are a set of new extensions to the DNS, protecting the Internet from certain attacks, such as DNS cache poisoning and sabotage. The protection mechanisms used on DNSSEC are the use of digital signatures allowing the user when requesting a name resolving in the DNS to decide whether the returned answer is from a valid source and whether the information has been altered in any way on its way back (data integrity and authentication).

We have added the relevant key material to the Interim Trust Anchor Repository maintained by the Internet Authority for Assigned Names and Numbers (IANA).