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'''Open Root Server Network''' ('''ORSN''') was a network of [[Domain Name System]] [[root nameserver]]s for the [[Internet]].

ORSN [[DNS root zone]] information was kept in synchronization with the "official" [[Domain Name System]] [[root nameserver]]s coordinated by [[ICANN]]. The networks were 100% compatible, though ORSN was operated independently. The ORSN servers were primarily placed in [[Europe]]. ORSN is also used by public name servers, providing [[Domain Name System]] access freely for everyone, without any limitation until the project closed in May 2019.

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ORSN was primarily started to reduce the over-dependence of Internet users on the United States and [[Department of Commerce]]/[[Internet Assigned Numbers Authority|IANA]]/[[ICANN]]/[[VeriSign]], limit the control over the Internet that this gives, while ensuring that [[___domain name]]s remain unambiguous. And to avoid the technical possibility of global "Internet shutdown" by one party.<ref>http://tfl09.blogspot.hu/2006/09/orsn-european-open-root-server-network.html</ref>

They also expect their network to make ___domain name resolutions faster for everyone.

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* INDEPENDENT mode has no automatic synchronization and is activated "whenever the political situation of the world - in our opinion - makes this step necessary because the possibility of a modification and/or a downtime of the ICANN root zone exists or we do not want that our root zone will rebuild automatically."<ref>[http://www.orsn.org/faq.php ORSN FAQ]</ref>

== Operating History ==

*ORSN operated from February 2002 until the end of 2008.<ref>{{cite mailing list

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}}</ref> *ORSN operatesoperated again sincefrom June 2013 until May 2019.<ref name=ORSN>{{cite web|last=ORSN|url=http://www.orsn.org/en/|accessdate=11 October 2013|title=[...] the ORSN was again activated in June 2013}}</ref>

Several [[Internet service provider]]s in Europe used ORSN as a root for their [[name server]]s.{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}}