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At IGF 2010, UNESCO and ICANN signed a Letter of Intent, which sets forward a common interest regarding the internationalization of the Internet Domain Name System (DNS).
UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES
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The company has and continues to implement critical technical enhancements for .com, such as IPv6 and DNSSEC support, to ensure the integrity and availability of the Internet Domain Name System (DNS).
ENGADGET: Department of Commerce renews VeriSign control of .com registry, demands price freeze
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This manages the internet's domain-name system of addresses, such as .com, and the underlying internet protocol numbers.
ECONOMIST: Internet politics
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Ken Silva, the security chief at VeriSign, which runs big chunks of the internet's domain-name system, advocates defences at the core of the network to tackle malicious data-packets before they reach their target.
ECONOMIST: Cyberwarfare
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From a technical standpoint, CloudFlare offers authoritative DNS, a function of the domain name system that Web sites use to identify themselves on the Internet, with a twist.
FORBES: How CloudFlare's Free DDoS-Protection Service Is Disrupting the Multibillion Dollar Computer Security and Content Delivery Markets
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Some weaknesses, already well-known to hackers, foreign governments and, most likely, jihadists, have been exposed in two areas: the Domain Name System that VeriSign oversees and the Border Gateway Protocol, which governs how Internet service providers and large networks exchange routing information.
FORBES: The Next Threat