TY - JOUR
T1 - Transparency in the New gTLD Era
T2 - Evaluating the DNS Centralized Zone Data Service
AU - Park, Jeman
AU - Choi, Jinchun
AU - Nyang, Daehun
AU - Mohaisen, Aziz
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received December 18, 2018; revised July 5, 2019 and August 11, 2019; accepted August 14, 2019. Date of publication September 16, 2019; date of current version December 10, 2019. This work was supported by National Research Foundation of Korea grant 2016K1A1A2912757 (Global Research Lab Project). The seed of this work appeared in the 4th IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in Web Systems and Technologies (HotWeb 2016) [1]. The associate editor coordinating the review of this article and approving it for publication was F. De Turck. (Corresponding author: Aziz Mohaisen.) J. Park and A. Mohaisen are with the Department of Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32765 USA (e-mail: mohaisen@ucf.edu).
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PY - 2019/12
Y1 - 2019/12
N2 - The centralized zone data service (CZDS) was introduced by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to facilitate sharing and access to zone data of the new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs). CZDS aims to improve the security and transparency of the naming system of the Internet. In this paper, we investigate CZDS's transparency by measurement and evaluation. By requesting access to zone data of all gTLDs listed in the CZDS portal, we analyze various aspects of CZDS, including access status, responsiveness and provided reasons for granting access or denial. Among other findings, we find that while a large percent of the gTLD admins respond within a reasonable time, more than 10% of them have a long request-to-decision waiting time, and sometimes requests go unanswered even after six months of a request. Furthermore, we find that denial cases were for unjustified reasons, where administrators who denied the requests have asked for information that was already provided in the request form. We discuss implications, and how to enforce better outcomes of CZDS using insight from our measurement and evaluation.
AB - The centralized zone data service (CZDS) was introduced by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to facilitate sharing and access to zone data of the new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs). CZDS aims to improve the security and transparency of the naming system of the Internet. In this paper, we investigate CZDS's transparency by measurement and evaluation. By requesting access to zone data of all gTLDs listed in the CZDS portal, we analyze various aspects of CZDS, including access status, responsiveness and provided reasons for granting access or denial. Among other findings, we find that while a large percent of the gTLD admins respond within a reasonable time, more than 10% of them have a long request-to-decision waiting time, and sometimes requests go unanswered even after six months of a request. Furthermore, we find that denial cases were for unjustified reasons, where administrators who denied the requests have asked for information that was already provided in the request form. We discuss implications, and how to enforce better outcomes of CZDS using insight from our measurement and evaluation.
KW - New gTLDs
KW - data sharing
KW - domain name system
KW - service transparency
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85076680049&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/TNSM.2019.2941572
DO - 10.1109/TNSM.2019.2941572
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85076680049
SN - 1932-4537
VL - 16
SP - 1782
EP - 1796
JO - IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
JF - IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
IS - 4
M1 - 8839415
ER -