This week the .uk register passed another significant milestone when it reached nine million registrations. The 9 millionth domain name, active2011.co.uk, was registered by the Nirvana Spa and Pulse 8 Health & Fitness Club based in Wokingham. 2010 has seen especially strong growth for .uk, with a net increase of one million domains registered in [...]

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The security standard DNSSEC is set to be assigned to the Internet’s 13 root servers from today (15th July 2010).

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As part of the global effort to improve the security of DNS, amongst other registries Nominet are implementing DNSSEC in the zones under their management. DNSSEC prevents the interception of and tampering with DNS queries between nameservers, making the Internet safer. You can find a full explanation of what DNSSEC is and what it does [...]

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