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root is the name of a database record of the 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] The entry was deleted again during the preparations for the deployment of DNSSEC at the root zone in 2010.[1][2]

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 "plenus", which is Latin for full or complete.

## References

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1. ^ Arends, Roy (2010-05-05). "plenus no more". dns-operations (Mailing list). Retrieved 2010-05-05.
2. ^ "DNSSEC on all root servers". The H. 2010-05-06. Archived from the original on 2010-05-09. Retrieved 2010-05-07.

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Notable generic top-level domains

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| General|

* .bar
* .biz
* .blog
* .cam
* .cloud
* .club
* .college
* .com
* .fun
* .gay
* .gdn
* .global
* .guru
* .inc
* .info
* .kaufen
* .lgbt
* .name
* .mobi
* .moe
* .monster
* .music
* .net
* .ngo/.ong
* .one
* .online
* .ooo
* .org
* .pro
* .sexy
* .shop
* .site
* .tech
* .top
* .video
* .wiki
* .wtf
* .xyz
* .zip

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Sponsored|

* .aero
* .amazon
* .app
* .art
* .bank
* .bible
* .cern
* .coop
* .design
* .dev
* .eco
* .edu
* .google
* .gov
* .hiv
* .int
* .jobs
* .kids
* .kiwi
* .kosher
* .mil
* .museum
* .post
* .radio
* .realtor
* .tel
* .travel
* .xxx

Geographic|

* .africa
* .alsace
* .amsterdam
* .asia
* .barcelona
* .bcn
* .berlin
* .brussels
* .bzh
* .cat
* .cymru
* .eu
* .eus
* .frl
* .gal
* .gent
* .irish
* .ist
* .istanbul
* .koeln
* .krd
* .lat
* .london
* .melbourne
* .nyc
* .paris
* .quebec
* .rio
* .saarland
* .scot
* .stockholm
* .sydney
* .taipei
* .tokyo
* .vegas
* .vlaanderen
* .wales
* .wien
* .zuerich

Infrastructure|

* .arpa

Deleted/retired|

* .nato

Reserved|

* .example
* .internal
* .invalid
* .local
* .localhost
* .onion
* .test

Proposed

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nationality|

* .eng
* .ker
* .nai
* .sic

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Technical|

* .geo
* .mail
* .web

Other|

* .kid

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