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'''root''' is the name of a database record of the [[DNS root zone|root zone]] in the [[Domain Name System]] of the [[Internet]] that was occasionally used as a diagnostic marker. Its presence demonstrated the root zone was not truncated upon loading by a [[root nameserver]].

According to technical observers the single .root entry was replaced in 2006 with just '''vrsn-end-of-zone-marker-dummy-record''', to be reintroduced later in 2006 in its original form.{{Citation needed|date=July 2010}} The entry was deleted again during the preparations for the [[Domain Name System Security Extensions#Deployment at the DNS root|deployment of DNSSEC at the root zone]] in 2010.<ref name="dns-operations">{{cite mailing list|url=https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2010-May/005504.html|title=plenus no more|date=2010-05-05|access-date=2010-05-05|mailing-list=dns-operations|last=Arends|first=Roy}}</ref><ref name="h-online">{{cite news|title=DNSSEC on all root servers|newspaper=[[The H]]|date=2010-05-06|url=http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/DNSSEC-on-all-root-servers-994744.html|access-date=2010-05-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100509043922/http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/DNSSEC-on-all-root-servers-994744.html|archive-date=2010-05-09|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The existence of the record was observed with the [[domain information groper]] (dig) utility by querying for a [[TXT Record]] for the domain name:

:dig vrsn-end-of-zone-marker-dummy-record.root

This entry returned the word "[[wikt:plenus|plenus]]", which is [[Latin]] for ''full'' or ''complete''.

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.internic.net/zones/root.zone The root zone file]

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