DNS security (hijacking?)

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Published on 2012-12-12T21:04:10Z Indexed on 2012/12/12 23:05 UTC
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I am hosting my website on Linode and am also using their DNS/naming servers. (ns1.linode.com etc.)

It occurred to me that I never have had to authenticate that the domain is mine when I added it to the domain to the DNS manager, or at any other point. I now wonder whether it would be possible for other Linode users to 'hijack' my domain by simply adding the same domain zone and pointing it to their own server. I wouldn't know how Linode could determine which are the real/authentic records.

How can I be sure this doesn't happen?

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