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The most common attack against DNS is actually people's registrar accounts being compromised. That even happened to Google.

This is used a ton by malware authors, who silently add records to host malicious websites on benign domain names.

DNSSEC is completely useless here.




You are conflating “registrar” and “DNS server provider”.




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