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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 .

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• The root zone file