Verisign launches certificate status service and applies for .pki domain
Verisign The company that operates the .com and .net registries. Full definition of Verisign has announced Verisign Informed, a new security product aimed at preventing reliance on outdated certificate information, and confirmed it has applied for the .pki top level domain. The company says the service addresses what it calls stale trust, where systems make decisions based on cached or old certificate data. Verisign Informed works as a certificate status service, returning a cryptographically signed OCSP response that shows whether a certificate has been revoked. The product is currently in limited beta, with a general launch planned for the first half of 2027, while ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers The nonprofit that coordinates the global DNS and gTLD policy. Full definition of ICANN is due to reveal all new gTLD A generic top-level domain added to the internet through ICANN's New gTLD Program. Full definition of new gTLD applications, including Verisign's bid for .pki, on Wednesday.
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Verisign has launched a new tool called Verisign Informed that checks if a website's security certificate is still valid, instead of relying on old information. The company also applied to run a new domain extension, .pki. The full tool will be available by mid-2027, and ICANN will soon reveal all companies applying for new domain extensions.