On September 25, 2007, registry operator VeriSign (verisign.com) has reached significant milestones and is on track to expand and diversify the capacity of its global Internet infrastructure by ten-fold by 2010.

When VeriSign announced the Project Titan initiative in February, it focused on expanding VeriSign's critical infrastructure in scale, location and investment in new engineering, monitoring and security systems to support the growth in Internet traffic. The company has since then increased its capacity to two trillion DNS queries a day, continued to diversify its infrastructure globally and developed new tools and processes to better monitor and manage traffic and to apply various system upgrades.

Project Titan is a multi-year initiative to strengthen the infrastructure. These upgrades are crucial to managing the surge in Internet interactions and protecting against cyber attacks that are drastically growing in both scale and sophistication.

"If the Internet infrastructure is not continually fortified and strengthened, then we run the risk that it will be unable to support the growing and dynamic needs of users, businesses and governments that rely on that infrastructure every day for commerce, communications and operations," commented Ken Silva, chief security officer for VeriSign. "For the Internet to remain a trusted platform, there must be complete confidence that it can scale to meet the demands and protect itself against attacks by those who want to disrupt it."