The U.S. federal government’s ongoing effort to improve the security on its Web sites may get a boost now that Verisign has taken over operation of the.gov registry. The.gov domain is the most popular domain for federal Web sites, some agencies use.com domain names, while military Web sites use names with the.mil extension extension. The five-year contract is worth an estimated $3 million and is worth around $4 million. One of the requirements of the contract is to support the implementation of DNSSEC on.gov and fed.us Web sites.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2126963/verisign-to-bolster–gov-security.html