Verisign and ICANN Renew Root Zone Maintainer Service Agreement (circleid.com)
(Thursday October 24, 2024 @05:40PM (msmash)
from the for-the-record dept.)
- Reference: 0175317763
- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/10/24/1710212/verisign-and-icann-renew-root-zone-maintainer-service-agreement
- Source link: https://circleid.com/posts/verisign-and-icann-renew-root-zone-maintainer-service-agreement
[1]penciling_in writes:
> Pat Kane, Senior VP at Verisign, reports that on October 20th, ICANN and Verisign renewed the agreement under which Verisign will continue to act as Root Zone Maintainer for the Domain Name System (DNS) [2]for another 8-year term . "The Root Zone sits atop the hierarchical architecture of the DNS and is essential to virtually all internet navigation, acting as the dynamic, cryptographically secure, global directory of all top-level domains that exist in the DNS. The Root Zone Maintainer is a unique role that ensures the cryptographic signing and publication of the Root Zone no less than once a day, without which, navigation on the internet would be impossible," the story adds.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~penciling_in
[2] https://circleid.com/posts/verisign-and-icann-renew-root-zone-maintainer-service-agreement
> Pat Kane, Senior VP at Verisign, reports that on October 20th, ICANN and Verisign renewed the agreement under which Verisign will continue to act as Root Zone Maintainer for the Domain Name System (DNS) [2]for another 8-year term . "The Root Zone sits atop the hierarchical architecture of the DNS and is essential to virtually all internet navigation, acting as the dynamic, cryptographically secure, global directory of all top-level domains that exist in the DNS. The Root Zone Maintainer is a unique role that ensures the cryptographic signing and publication of the Root Zone no less than once a day, without which, navigation on the internet would be impossible," the story adds.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~penciling_in
[2] https://circleid.com/posts/verisign-and-icann-renew-root-zone-maintainer-service-agreement
oh I see (Score:1)
"The Root Zone sits atop the hierarchical architecture of the DNS "
Wat
The root is at the top?
Wtfsrsly
Re:oh I see (Score:4, Insightful)
We need ad hoc or other decentralized addressing
There are such options: Per-document addressing; IPFS, and DHT.
There was even Namecoin.
Turns out.. DNS has another function: Providing Authoritatively-established authenticity.
That includes manual deletion by the authority of malicious/deceptive names such as phishing and spammed websites.