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Duane Wessels

Duane Wessels is a Fellow at Verisign, with a focus on DNSSEC projects and root zone operations. He often analyzes large amounts of data relating to Verisign’s DNS services and develops tools used both within the company and by the broader community.

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Verisign to update DNSSEC algorithm

By Duane Wessels on 19 Sep 2023

Guest Post: Verisign to re-sign .com, .net, and .edu TLDs with new DNSSEC algorithms.

Adding ZONEMD protections to the root zone

By Duane Wessels on 18 Jul 2023

Guest Post: The new record type will add an additional layer of cryptographic security to ensure the reliability of root zone data.

More mysterious DNS root query traffic from a large cloud/DNS operator

By Duane Wessels on 2 Jun 2022

Guest Post: Learn how the team at Verisign solved the mysterious case of the Google’s prepending nonce labels.

How Chromium reduced Root DNS traffic

By Duane Wessels on 4 Feb 2021

Guest Post: Chromium is driving a reduction in DNS root server traffic. Let’s put some numbers to it.