ICANN plans to make the first round of changes to the DNS root zone key on October 11th

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN recently announced that the board of directors had approved a first-round change to the key, which will protect the Domain Name System (DNS) known as the “Internet Address Book.” They plan to change or “rotate” the key in the DNS root zone on October 11, 2018, which is the first time the key has been changed since the key was activated in 2010.

According to ICANN, changes to the DNS root zone key were initially expected to take place a year ago, but when they got the latest data before the rotation and analysed it, they decided to suspend the key rotation and continue to study how best to reduce the density. The risk of key rotation.

“This is the first root key change, but it won’t be the last,” said Matt Larson, vice president of research and key rotation liaison for ICANN Research. “This is the first time, so naturally we are bending over backwards to make certain that everything goes as smoothly as possible, but as we do more key rollovers in the future, the network operators, ISPs, and others will become more accustomed to the practice.”