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It's been a year since .com was signed, which was a major step forward towards Internet community support for DNSSEC implementation given that nearly 45% of all Internet domains fall within the .com branch. I was curious how other top level domains (TLDs) were doing in this regard so I checked out the ICANN Research site for TLD signing statistics. As shown in the following summary table, 22.5% of TLDs were signed a year ago, while 29.1% are signed as of today. This 31% jump in signed TLDs represents good progress, but there's still a way to go to get to DNSSEC ubiquity in chains of trust to the root zone. March 2011 March 2012 TLDs in the root zone 306 313 TLDs signed 69 91 % TLDs signed 22.5% 29.1% Another boost to DNSSEC deployment was announced last week in the form of a pending FCC recommendation that promotes the deployment of DNSSEC planned by several major ISPs. These ISPs will be implementing DNSSEC validation on their recursive servers, which their customers ...

I am in the process of compiling questions for the 2012 rendition of BT Diamond IP's IPv6 survey. This survey is open to anyone wishing to express their opinion about the state of IPv6 and deployment plans. While I'd like to retain some of the questions from last year's survey to identify shifts or trends in opinion, there's always room for one or two additional questions. So if there's a question that's on your mind, feel free to post a comment to this blog post and I'll consider it! I'm interested in what people are thinking about what conditions would hasten their plans to deploy IPv6, so I'm planning to add a question about this from the perspective of the IPv6 user density on the Internet. What would it take for you to consider this critical mass? 1 % of Internet users being IPv6, or 10%, or even 50%? Let me know if you agree this is a good question or if you have a different metric or any additional question ideas!