VeriSign, a provider of digital trust services, has
released enhancements to its Digital Brand Manager, a web-based
domain name management tool for the enterprise.
VeriSign’s digital trust services are intended to secure
intranet, extranet, virtual private networks (VPNs) and e-commerce
applications.
The Digital Brand Manager, a domain name management tool that is
accessed through a secure internet connection, is one part of the
company’s Digital Brand Management Services line. It allows
organisations to give selected employees the ability to access
names in multiple locations. Those employees could then set up
primary user access and multiple secondary user configurations.
Some of the upgrades include: the ability to search and view
domain names as a portfolio asset, including domain names managed
by third-parties; improved portfolio searching, sorting and
filtering capabilities; enhanced visibility into where domain names
are in the registration process; and additional options for
managing the registration profiles associated with any domain
name.
The company also announced its Never Down Service, a solution
which it said guarantees uptime for internet domain names. The
Never Down Service ensures uptime by providing secondary Domain
Name Service (DNS) resolution services through its servers, even if
the customer’s DNS sever fails.
The service also offers companies protection for their domain
names against fraudulent DNS changes and against the expiration of
an outfit’s official domain name. Coupled together, "business
functions are protected and that’s what these products are designed
to do", said Christopher Parante, senior manager of corporate
communications at VeriSign.
With the internet evolving, companies expect that security
should also improve to protect domain names and user
identifications.