One small step for DNS, one giant leap for the internet \r\n Human nature is to seek simpler and convenient ways to do things. One example is the sometimes onerous task of typing a URL into a web browser's address bar. Since users prefer short, easy-to-remember URLs, an internet trend is to use short domains for websites (e.g., edgedns.zone). With short website names, users benefit from the convenience of fewer characters to remember and type. \r\n Making this work has been a challenge, however, due to an obscure corner-case in the DNS standard itself, and has led the industry to provider-specific, incompatible solutions that prevent organizations from using multiple DNS providers for redundancy. As an example, Akamai's  zone apex mapping  can dynamically resolve DNS requests for short domain names on the fly to an IP address of an optimal edge server. However, this solution is Akamai-specific.…