On Dec 15, 2012, at 2:13 PM, Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net> wrote: > Oh, and you can just download the root zone from ftp://ftp.internic.net/domain/root.zone ... Or, perhaps more conveniently, zone transfer the root zone from xfr.lax.dns.icann.org or xfr.cjr.dns.icann.org (see http://dns.icann.org/services/axfr/). Regards, -drc