I don't whether to laugh or cry. Its just a computer. http://www.washtech.com/news/netarch/13672-1.html If you destroyed the copy of the US Constitution in the National Archives in Washington DC, would that mean the end of the US Government? If someone broke into NARA and scribbled a new amendment on the tail of the parchment, would the US Government be bound to follow what ever he wrote on the Constitution? No, of course not. The Root Zone files aren't unique historical documents, and there is nothing special about the copy on a.root-servers.net. If a tornado blew through Verisign's offices tomorrow, would it mean the end of the Internet? No. If someone corrupted Verisign's files, would that mean we have to follow the bogus records? No, we'd clean them up. Or more likely, the other operators would rollback their zone files to the previous known good copy. Would it disrupt our operations. Yes. Would it be irrecoverable? No. The root files are important business records, and I expect the custodian to take reasonable precautions appropriate for their value. Do I expect to see machine-gun nests outside Verisign's office? No. a.root-servers.net is just a piece of hardware. If it was destroyed, we've got more. http://www.sms800.com/ http://www.dtc.org/