Zonemaster validates reliably

A comparative study between tools for validating the quality of DNS delegation shows that Zonemaster is a reliable and effective tool; ahead of alternatives like MXToolbox and NAST.

.SE – first TLD to support CSYNC

The Swedish Internet Foundation has been a big supporter of DNSSEC from the beginning. .SE was the first TLD to be DNSSEC signed back in 2005, long before the root. Now we continue to innovate and allow DNS operators to update registry data with the help of DNSSEC.

Easier handling of records with automated DNSSEC provisioning

DNSSEC is currently enabled for almost half of the .se zone, and slightly less than that for .nu. To reach the other half of the “market”, DNSSEC needs to be more accessible. That is why we now add a new and easier method of updating records.

Solving the decade-old problem with Multi-Signer DNSSEC

The Swedish Internet Foundation has for the last couple of months been working together with Shumon Huque of Salesforce, and the Internet pioneer Steve Crocker. Together they are solving the problem with multi-signer DNSSEC.

Meet our new tool - Zonemaster

Together with colleagues at our French counterpart Afnic, we at The Swedish Internet Foundation have developed a continuation to DNSCheck. Zonemaster is a program that helps control how well the DNS service works for a domain.

The Swedish Internet Foundation provides Postgraduate Research scholarship

The Swedish Internet Foundation and DNS-Labs will provide a Postgraduate Research scholarship at Karlstad University to research DNS. This initiative is an unique opportunity to collaborate with one of the leading scientific and educational institutions in Sweden.

First large top-level domain to transition from NSEC3 to NSEC

After weeks of extensive testing, The Swedish Internet Foundation has successfully completed a shift from NSEC3 to NSEC for the top-level domain .NU, being the first large operator to do so.

The Swedish Internet Foundation offers a unique DNS class at KTH

The third round of the class covering the internet’s domain name system, DNS, at the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, started in January 2021. The class is a cooperation between KTH and the Swedish Internet Foundation.

Time To Die for TTL

Zone files contain an awful lot of TTL values, and sometimes it is good to take a step back to see if what you've set up is still meaningful. We took a deeper look at our TTL values and it seems an extreme TTL makeover is called for.

Critical IT-services in focus at the DNS reference group

Increased robustness for critical municipal IT-services to prepare them for a major crisis, an update on the root KSK rollover and insight into the DNS architecture of Facebook were some of the topics at DNS reference group meeting in May.