.root

March 2012 root is the name of a database record of the root zone in the Domain Name System of the Internet that was occasionally used as a diagnostic marker. Its presence demonstrated the root zone was not truncated upon loading by a root nameserver. According to technical observers the single .root entry was replaced in 2006 with just vrsn-end-of-zone-marker-dummy-record, to be reintroduced later in 2006 in its original form.July 2010 The entry was deleted again during the preparations for the deployment of DNSSEC at the root zone in 2010.https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2010-May/005504.html plenus no more 2010-05-05 2010-05-05 dns-operations Arends RoyDNSSEC on all root servers The H 2010-05-06 http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/DNSSEC-on-all-root-servers-994744.html 2010-05-07 https://web.archive.org/web/20100509043922/http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/DNSSEC-on-all-root-servers-994744.html 2010-05-09 dead The existence of the record was observed with the domain information groper (dig) utility by querying for a TXT Record for the domain name: dig vrsn-end-of-zone-marker-dummy-record.root This entry returned the word "plenus", which is Latin for full or complete. References External links The root zone file Category:Pseudo-top-level domains