"Africa has an advantage in terms of management of domains because they are few compared to other countries; it may be an opportunity for Africa's budding e-commerce to take off on a fully secure environment," said Michuki Mwangi, senior education manager at the Internet Society and a former president of AfTLD.

South Africa (.za) has the highest number of domains, while Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Namibia, Tunisia, Tanzania and Egypt have stable registries. However, the number of domains are yet to hit a million for the whole continent.

"Some aspects of DNSSEC for a registry are made easier when the registry contains a small number of domains, but many other aspects are the same regardless of how many domains are registered," said ICANN's Crain.

Mwangi adds that although e-commerce has worked in the west without DNSSEC, people in Africa still have security concerns with online banking transactions, given the phishing attacks that have resulted in redirecting of customers to different sites.

"There is no doubt that more stringent security measures will be needed to establish authenticity of source but DNSSEC will ensure end users will be directed to the bank's servers and minimize phishing attacks," Mwangi added.