Knowledge-sharing and Instantiating Norms for DNS and Naming Security (KINDNS)

KINDNS is an ICANN initiative to promote voluntary security best practices for authoritative and recursive DNS operators.  It relies on a self-assessment tool that walks users through a series of questions to help them understand where they are positioned in the scale of the practices that the framework promotes.

To develop a baseline level of security, the KINDNS team worked closely with the DNS technical community to identify and document, in the form of guidelines, a small set of mutually agreed norms that operators of any size can easily implement.