Nominet have introduced a free pilot DNSSEC Signing Service to simplify the signing of zones and help encourage the introduction of the improved security measure in the .UK ccTLD.
This new product from Nominet allows registrars to hand-over the process of DNSSEC signing their zones to Nominet. The service reduces the technical barriers to DNSSEC deployment by registrars. It allows registrars to quickly and easily start offering DNSSEC as a security product to their customers with very few overheads and without significant and costly infrastructure development.
Nominet’s signing service is an alternative approach to DNSSEC management that, with a much lower infrastructure investment, allows registrars to sign zones. Nominet will generate and manage DNSSEC keys and DS records and publish them to nameservers and parent zones respectively, allowing registrars to sign zones in a quick and simple way.
The pilot service is free however Nominet say they intend to introduce charges for using the service in January 2013. The fee will be ten per cent of the registration cost which, based on the current registration prices will be £0.50 (plus VAT) per domain name for two years.
Nominet have provided information on how the DNSSEC Signing Service works here.
To register your .UK domain name, check out Europe Registry here.