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'''Root Zone''' refers to the highest level of the [[DNS|Domain Name System]] (DNS) structure. It contains the names and the numeric IP addresses for all the top level domain names such as the [[gTLD]]s ([[.com]], [[.net]], [[.org]], [[.jobs]]), and all the country code top level domains ([[ccTLD]]s), for example ([[.us]], [[.uk]] [[.ph]]), including the entire list of all the root servers.<ref>[http://www.isoc.org/briefings/019/ www.isoc.org]</ref>
'''Root Zone''' refers to the highest level of the [[DNS|Domain Name System]] (DNS) structure. It contains the names and the numeric IP addresses for all the top level domain names such as the [[gTLD]]s ([[.com]], [[.net]], [[.org]]), including [[new gTLD]]s ([[.xyz]], [[.club]], [[.google]]), as well [[CcTLD]]s ([[.us]], [[.uk]], [[.ar]]) and [[IDN]]s ([[.在线]], [[.عرب]], [[.संगठन]]) in the root zone file.<ref>[http://www.isoc.org/briefings/019/ www.isoc.org]</ref>


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The DNS root zone contains only 280 delegations of generic, country code and internationalized [[TLD|top level domain names]] (TLD)s and its size is more or less 80,000 bytes. It also changes slowly and absorbs only one minor change per TLD every year.<ref>
The DNS root zone contains over 11,000 gTLDs, CcTLDs and IDNs that are delegated to the Root Zone Database.<ref>
[http://www.icann.org/en/committees/dns-root/root-scaling-study-report-31aug09-en.pdf Scaling the Root]</ref>
[http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db IANA Root Zone Database]</ref>


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