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Verisign gets eight more years running the root

Kevin Murphy, October 24, 2024, 12:35:51 (UTC), Domain Tech

Verisign and ICANN have renewed their deal that sees Verisign run the DNS root, according to the company.

Verisign said the Root Zone Maintainer Agreement was renewed on October 20 for another eight-year term.

The RZMA is basically a technical services contract under which Verisign updates and publishes the root zone file (basically a list of TLDs and their nameservers) according to ICANN’s instructions. All the other root zone operators mirror that file.

It’s the first renewal since ICANN secured its independence from the US government in 2016, but Verisign and its predecessors have been managing the root since 1993.

The deal is separate from Verisign’s contracts to run .com and .net.


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