Why “TLD” is being discussed
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by smithbob · Oct 24, 2026 · 5 points
I think these are not really comparable observations. The point of calling out the .DE DNSSEC failure is that you'd reasonably expect the operators of a TLD to be expert at mana…
by tptacek · Oct 24, 2026
Not lose control exactly. But if ICANN is willing to, they have the power to simply make that control irrelevant in any specific case. The government in question would have abso…
by kensey · Oct 23, 2026
> In a scenario where it becomes known the US government is actively subverting Verisign to tamper with DNSSEC integrity (or where Verisign just screwed up badly enough to make…
by toast0 · Oct 22, 2026
See my other comment above. A malicious TLD operator is not something everyone is just powerless to deal with.
by kensey · Oct 22, 2026
Again: you don't have to touch the root servers. The root servers are a red herring here. It's the TLD operators who exercise all the real control. IANA/ICANN will have not…
by tptacek · Oct 22, 2026
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A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet after the root domain. The top-level domain names are installed in the root zone of the name space. For all domains in lower levels, it is the last part of the domain name, that is, the last non-empty label of a fully qualified domain name. For example, in the domain name www.example.com, the top-level domain is .com. Responsibility for management of most top-level domains is delegated to specific organizations by the ICANN, an Internet multi-stakeholder community, which operates the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), and is in charge of maintaining the DNS root zone. Read more on Wikipedia