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The Internet Architecture Board has spoken out strongly against alternate roots in RFC 2826, "IAB Technical Comment on the Unique DNS Root". DESCRIPTION Alternative DNS roots can in general be divided into three groups: those run for idealistic or ideological reasons, those run as profit-making enterprises, and those run internally by an organization for its own use. Whilst technically trivial to set up, actually running a reliable root server network in the long run is a serious undertaking, requiring multiple servers to be kept running 24/7 in geographically diverse locations. During the Dot-com Boom , some alt-root providers believed that there were substantial profits to be made from providing alternative top-level domains. Only a small proportion of ISPs actually use any of the zones served by alt-root operators, generally sticking to the ICANN-specified root servers. This in turn led to the commercial failure of several alternative DNS root providers. A .biz TLD created by Pacific Root was in operation before ICANN approved a .biz run by Neulevel, and for some time after the creation of the ICANN-sanctioned .biz several alt roots continued to resolve .biz to Pacific Root's rather than Neulevel's. There were therefore .biz domain names that existed in different roots and pointed to different IP Address es. The possibility of such conflicts, and their potential for destabilizing the Internet, is the main source of controversy surrounding alt roots. Many of the alternate roots try to coordinate with each other, but many do not - and they have no conflict resolution procedure between them.LIST OF ALTERNATIVE ROOT ZONES Active public root zones
OpenNIC Website: {Link without Title}
Hebb Networks ATLD Website: {Link without Title}
New.Net Website: {Link without Title}
UnifiedRoot Website: {Link without Title}
On the user side, it works by modifying the user's DNS settings to point at UnifiedRoot's servers; it also offers a downloadable tool to do this on Windows. UnifiedRoot have also made agreements with ISPs and Telcos to enable access to the provided TLDs. Cesidian Root Website: {Link without Title} - alt root system that resolves ICANN root (265 TLDs), Cesidian Root proper (19 TLDs), China MII Root (3 TLDs), Arabic GCC Root (4 TLDs), and I-DNS.net Root (15 TLDs). It currently resolves the entire ICANN namespace of 265 TLDs as well as 41 additional TLDs, like:
Namespace Website: {Link without Title}
MobileTLD Website: {Link without Title}
Public root zones with an unknown status Open Root Server Confederation (ORSC) Inactive public root zones Dot.love
AlterNIC (stopped in 1997)
EDNS (stopped in 1998)
Active private root zones A number of organizations have alternative top-level domains configured on their internal DNS infrastructures, accessible only from within the enterprise. For instance, the National Security Agency operates the .nsa TLD; many NSA internal email addresses are of the form username@r21.r.nsa, mirroring the NSA organizational group structure. SEE ALSO
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