The PublicRoot Consortium is responsible for the global coordination of the Internet's inclusive name space root system of unique identifiers and labels. These labels called top-level domain names are used in a variety of Internet protocols that help computers reach each other over the Internet.

The PublicRoot Consortium, an internationally organized not for profit membership organization, publishes and maintains the inclusive name space root zone file. This file is inclusive of all top-level domains on the global Internet known as the Public Root.

The PublicRoot Consortium is further dedicated to the maintenance of public information resources that facilitate the coordination and resolution of all known global top-level domain names. Careful management of these resources is vital to the Internet's operation.

We are committed to ensuring the inclusive name space and the Public Root is open, transparent, inclusive, representative & accountable to our members and the Internet community at large. These are the core principles of the PublicRoot Consortium. These principles represent the consensus of the Internet community at large and establish the rules applicable to the operations and management of the PublicRoot Consortium.

These core principles guide our mission to ensure the integrety of technical, policy and commercial operations in the development and expansion of the Public Root inclusive name space. These three operational sectors are critical to the healthy development and growth of the Public Root.

Furthermore, the PublicRoot Consortium facilitates and supports direct access to the governance of all three operational sectors in the Public Root inclusive name space to top-level domain owners, administrators and operators.

The PublicRoot Consortium is responsible for the operation and technical management of the Internet's Public Root system also known as the inclusive name space. This ensures the universal resolvability of the Public Root so that all users of the Internet can connect to all Internet resources.

The Public Root is an inclusive root operated over existing Internet infrastructure. The Public Root supports the Internet community by providing uniform access to all data elements that support the resolution of all top-level domains in the domain name system.

The PublicRoot Consortium preserves the operational stability of the inclusive name space, or Public Root, on the global Internet by providing public access to the coordination, management and distribution of technical elements and identifiers used to delegate top-level domain labels in the Public Root system.

The PublicRoot Consortium verifies and provides authoritative data to Public Root systems at the international, regional and local level. The PublicRoot Consortium encourages, participates and assists industry and government in deploying root systems to serve local users or regional interests.

The PublicRoot Consortium further supports the decentralization, diversification and expansion of Public Root systems. Regional or local public root servers improve the security and privacy of local Internet transactions, speed up query resolution, and reduce a local networks dependence on a centralized root infrastructure.

Local or regional public root systems also facilitate compliance with information privacy legislation and regulations. The provisioning of public root infrastructure reduces potential security issues such as surveillance, redirection or intrusion of network traffic by unauthorized third parties.