All the more reason to take a look at Geoff Huston’s plan to reinvent the Root.  

https://419.consulting/encrypted-dns/f/reinventing-the-root


Andrew 


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From: Joe Abley via dns-wg <dns-wg@ripe.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2025 10:38:59 AM
To: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
Cc: dns-wg@ripe.net <dns-wg@ripe.net>
Subject: [dns-wg] Re: More Than 70% of DNS Root Queries Are Junk
 
On 30 Oct 2025, at 14:49, Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il> wrote:

> https://pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/more-than-70-of-dns-root-queries-are-junk

The surprising thing to me about this is that anybody thinks this is surprising. Evi Nemeth wrote about this over 20 years ago. Do people imagine that the graph of junk is going down and to the right?

https://www.caida.org/catalog/papers/2001_dnsmeasroot/dmr.pdf



Joe
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