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title: "On October 11, 2026, the DNS root switches to a new key-signing key (KSK-2024)."
description: "Cloudflare says the DNS root will switch to a new key-signing key, KSK-2024, on October 11, 2026."
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# On October 11, 2026, the DNS root switches to a new key-signing key (KSK-2024).

## Retrieval answer

Cloudflare says the DNS root will switch to a new key-signing key, KSK-2024, on October 11, 2026.

Cloudflare says the DNS root will switch to a new key-signing key, KSK-2024, on October 11, 2026. The company’s post frames this as a planned DNSSEC root-key rollover and points to RFC 8509 trust anchor sentinels as a way to test whether a DNS resolver is ready. The announcement establishes a date and a readiness-check mechanism; it does not establish that a resolver failure or service outage has occurred.

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