DOMAIN NAME SERVICES

IANA is responsible for the operation and maintenance of a number of key aspects of the DNS, including the root zone, and the .int and .arpa domains. The DNS Root Zone IANA is the global coordinator of the DNS root. The root is the upper-most part of the DNS hierarchy, and involves delegating administrative responsibility of top-level domains, which are the last segment of a domain name, such as .com, .uk and .nz. Part of this task includes evaluating requests to change the operators of country code domains, as well as day-to-day maintenance of the details of the existing operators. .INT IANA operates the .int top-level domain, designed for the sole use of cross-national organisations, such as treaty organisations, that do not naturally fit into a specific countrys top-level domain. For example, the World Health Organisation uses who.int for its Internet presence, whilst NATO uses nato.int. .ARPA The .arpa domain is used internally by Internet protocols, such as for reverse mapping of IP addresses, and delivery of ENUM phone number mapping. IANA administers this domain in close liaison with the Internet Architecture Board, which has policy responsibility for .arpa. IDN Practices Repository To help foster the deployment of Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs), IANA provides a repository of IDN tables which document the permissable characters for different languages and scripts provided for registration by different top-level domain registries. The repository is informative, and designed for information sharing. Interim Trust Anchor Repository For early adopters of DNSSEC technology, IANA provides a repository of trust anchors from toplevel domain operators who sign their zones. This allows software to cryptographically verify that DNS data has not been modified in transit over the Internet.

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