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DNS Delegation Power
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History
Nigeria’s .ng Started with One Domain. The Registry Handover Had to Be Learned
In 1995, the first recorded .ng namespace was remarkably small: a RINAF retrospective says its only registered name at the time was `yaba.edu.ng`. Yet the work around that name—registration rules, a WHOIS database, technical operation and eventual succession—already crossed…
History
The Key Was Generated in Two Rooms: DNSSEC’s First Root KSK Ceremony, 2010
The signed root zone appeared in July 2010, but the public milestone concealed a more exacting sequence. A key was generated, protected, moved and accepted across two facilities before the root began carrying DNSSEC signatures. The interval between those steps shows what a…
ICANN
The root key switched on schedule. Can operators prove their resolvers trusted it?
At 14:00 UTC on 11 October, the DNS root zone began using KSK-2024 to sign its key set. That establishes a public control-plane milestone. It does not establish what every recursive resolver had stored, whether its automatic update completed, or what any particular user…
History
BIND Put DNS Inside 4.3BSD
A distributed name service became a practical part of Unix administration when Berkeley’s BIND arrived as software that operators could configure, run and maintain with the rest of their system.
History
The Union Dissolved. .su Stayed in the DNS Root
When the Soviet Union disappeared, its country-code domain did not vanish with it. The history of .su is a record of several clocks running at once: a root-zone delegation, a new Russian namespace, local registration rules, and the names that organizations still needed to…
ICANN
ICANN’s DNSSEC fast track faces a lock test
ICANN’s assessment and RFC 10026 give registry locks different effects. The difference now sits inside a public review intended to underpin faster registry approvals.
History
The Urdu Name Passed in 2011. .پاکستان Reached the Root in 2017
Pakistan’s Urdu-language name entered the DNS root through two distinct stages: review of the script label, then delegation of a manager able to operate it. The record makes clear why “approved” and “delegated” were not the same milestone.
ICANN
Linked domains are leads, not verdicts: ICANN’s proposed DNS-abuse checks
ICANN’s proposed associated-domain checks would move abuse review from one name at a time to evidence about related names held by the same registrar. Their legitimacy will turn on a boundary the draft already recognizes: a signal that links domains can justify an inquiry, but it…
History
The Infrastructure Names Stayed in .int for 20 Years After .arpa Took Over
A namespace can have a new home long before its old records disappear. The history of .int’s infrastructure names shows why those are separate jobs.
History
The PX Record Mapped Addresses, Not Mail: RFC 1664’s Experimental Proposal
An Internet mail gateway needed to translate between two address systems; it did not need DNS to deliver the message. RFC 1664 proposed a way to distribute those mappings, while explicitly leaving SMTP delivery to MX and the gateway.
History
Tanzania’s .tz Registry Ran Before the Country Had a Full-Time Internet Link
The .tz namespace became operational in 1994 while Tanzania still lacked a full-time Internet connection. The registry could function because domain administration, DNS hosting, mail relay and live IP connectivity were separate layers.
ICANN
ICANN Opens the DNSSEC DS Automation Safety Case to Public Review
ICANN has opened a six-week review of an external security assessment that could shape a later Fast Track route for registry operators. The report’s favorable conclusion is conditional; ICANN’s own determination and any contractual change still lie ahead.
History
Why .YU Stayed in the DNS Root Until 2010
The ISO code changed before the old domain stopped serving people. Between those dates, a temporary registry, replacement namespaces and a staged migration had to bridge the distance between administrative identity and addresses already embedded in daily use.
History
Who Could Add a Name? Britain’s Manual .uk Registry, 1985–96
Before Nominet, adding a British domain name depended on a volunteer-run naming process. The 1996 handover put the growing register, its operating rules and its member structure into a dedicated institution.
Leaders
Sam Weiler and the DNSSEC Trust Path Outside the Parent Zone
DNSSEC Lookaside Validation gave a signed child zone another way to reach a validating resolver when its parent could not publish a usable DS record. The detour still depended on a second, locally configured trust anchor. Sam Weiler’s RFC 5074 describes that bargain; the later…
History
From KAIST to the NCA: KRNIC’s Move and Independence
Korea’s early Internet registry changed institutional homes before it became an independent foundation. A September 1994 meeting record captures the handoff in one line—and in a changed nameserver address.
History
The Petition Was Not the Transfer: IANA’s 2000 .pn Report
Between 1997 and 2000, Pitcairn’s residents asked for a change in who managed .pn. IANA recommended redelegation; the U.S. Government later implemented the root-zone change.
History
Postel’s 1998 Root Test Targeted Zone Transfers, Not DNS Queries
In January 1998, Jon Postel asked root-server operators to obtain a copy of the root zone from an IANA server at USC/ISI. His message was about how servers received that copy. It said the data would match the version already available from NSI’s A-root and that the existing rules…
Story
Root DNSKEY Answers Now Show KSK-2024’s Signature
At 15:32 UTC on 11 October, four direct root-server queries returned a DNSKEY signature tagged 38696. A sample three hours earlier still showed 20326; the same four names returned 38696 again at about 16:09 UTC. IANA’s cache-revalidated page then listed KSK-2024 as active. These…
History
JUNET’s Name Tree Came Before DNS—and Survived the Move to .jp
Before Japan’s academic networks used TCP/IP and DNS, JUNET made hierarchical email names work over UUCP and telephone lines. The convention gave volunteers a way to keep organization names legible as the network grew—and a structure that could be carried into `.jp` when a wider…