7–8 Oct 2025 Workshop
Quality Hotel Globe
Europe/Stockholm timezone

DNSSEC Operations: What keeps TLD operators up at night

8 Oct 2025, 15:00
5m
Stjärnrummet (Quality Hotel Globe)

Stjärnrummet

Quality Hotel Globe

Arenaslingan 7, 121 77 Johanneshov, Sweden
In-Person Standard Presentation Lightning Presentation OARC 45 Day 2

Speaker

Alex Band (NLnet Labs)

Description

Before we started with the devlopment of our DNSSEC signing solution Cascade, we interviewed 16 TLD operators about their DNS operations. We expected the conversation to be about tooling. Instead, the answers went deeper — about trust, continuity, and compliance.

We published the results of this survey here:
https://blog.nlnetlabs.nl/dnssec-operations-in-2026-what-keeps-16-tlds-up-at-night/

Primary author

Alex Band (NLnet Labs)

Presentation materials