• This post was co-authored by Peter Thomassen. • The adoption of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC), while steadily rising, is still low after 20 years, at least in terms of secure delegation rates. • In the past, DNSSEC scepticism was arguably caused by overly complex implementations and breakage-prone maintenance processes. • But by now, however, tooling has massively improved, making the DNSSEC experience much smoother than before. • However, DNSSEC validation and secure delegation rates have maintained their inching growth, reaching 36% and 7% respectively in 2025. • Why care about DNSSEC adoption anyway?

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  • This post was co-authored by Peter Thomassen. The adoption of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC), while steadily rising, is still low after 20 years, at least in terms of secure delegation rates. In the past, DNSSEC scepticism was arguably caused by overly complex implementations and breakage-prone maintenance processes. But by now, however, tooling has massively improved, making the DNSSEC experience much smoother than before. However, DNSSEC validation and secure delegation rates have maintained their inching growth, reaching 36% and 7% respectively in 2025. So what? Why care ab

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