[dns-operations] DNSSEC in the root, please help me understand

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Fri Jan 15 20:20:51 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:00:28AM -0800,
 Matthew Dempsky <matthew at dempsky.org> wrote 
 a message of 10 lines which said:

> Even after the root zone is signed, it still won't do any good for
> .com users (until .com is signed too).

Yes, DNSSEC is "opt-in". Like PGP. If you don't sign your messages,
PGP won't help you :-)

Verisign announced the signing of .COM for 2011. If you're too
impatient to wait, use another TLD or simply register your .COM domain
in ISC DLV registry.



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