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title: "Verisign launches certificate status service and applies for .pki domain"
language: "en"
section: "business"
date: "2026-10-06T14:30:49Z"
updated: "2026-10-06T14:30:49Z"
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  name: "Domain Name Wire"
  url: "https://domainnamewire.com/2026/10/05/verisign-announces-verisign-informed-applies-for-pki-top-level-domain/"
  language: "en-US"
  date: "2026-10-05T20:24:17Z"
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# Verisign launches certificate status service and applies for .pki domain

Verisign has announced Verisign Informed, a new security product aimed at preventing reliance on outdated certificate information, and confirmed it has applied for the .pki top level domain.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a certificate status service, returning a cryptographically signed OCSP response that shows whether a certificate has been revoked.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 is due to reveal all new TLD applications, including Verisign's bid for .pki, on Wednesday.

## in plain words

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.

Source: [Domain Name Wire](https://domainnamewire.com/2026/10/05/verisign-announces-verisign-informed-applies-for-pki-top-level-domain/)