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# Zone Transfers for Roots and TLDs
Allowing global zone transfers is sometimes considered a security vulnerability due to this functionality giving attackers the ability to easily enumerate all DNS zone data for a specific domain. This is often seen as an issue for system administrators who want to make enumeration of sub-domains and other DNS data hard for malicious actors.

However, when it comes to TLDs and the root nameservers, zone transfers are shown in a different light. Zone transfers at this level can be benificial as they are an easy way for a TLD to be transparent about its DNS changes. This project is **not** meant to encourage TLD DNS hosting providers to disable global zone transfers but rather to gather data on the ever-changing zone information for the Internet's TLDs.
However, when it comes to TLDs and the root nameservers, zone transfers are shown in a different light. Zone transfers at this level can be beneficial as they are an easy way for a TLD to be transparent about its DNS changes. This project is **not** meant to encourage TLD DNS hosting providers to disable global zone transfers but rather to gather data on the ever-changing zone information for the Internet's TLDs.

## Credit
This project was inspired by Peter Bowen's work which can be found here: https://github.com/pzb/TLDs