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id: "root-zone-maintainer"
kind: "glossary-term"
title: "Root Zone Maintainer"
language: "en"
category: "DNS and technical foundations"
updated: "2026-10-04T14:01:23Z"
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# Root Zone Maintainer

The organization that builds, signs and distributes the root zone file to the root server operators after IANA has approved each change. Verisign performs this role under a contract with ICANN. It is separate from Verisign's role as registry for TLDs such as .com.

## related terms

- [root zone](https://tldlog.com/glossary/root-zone/)
- [Verisign](https://tldlog.com/glossary/verisign/)
- [IANA](https://tldlog.com/glossary/iana/)
- [PTI](https://tldlog.com/glossary/pti/)
- [root server](https://tldlog.com/glossary/root-server/)