diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 7f02b603..f4238e8b 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -668,3 +668,6 @@
 [submodule "vendor/grammars/vue-syntax-highlight"]
 	path = vendor/grammars/vue-syntax-highlight
 	url = https://github.com/vuejs/vue-syntax-highlight
+[submodule "vendor/grammars/st2-zonefile"]
+	path = vendor/grammars/st2-zonefile
+	url = https://github.com/sixty4k/st2-zonefile
diff --git a/grammars.yml b/grammars.yml
index c64f08a9..4da6c0e2 100644
--- a/grammars.yml
+++ b/grammars.yml
@@ -470,6 +470,8 @@ vendor/grammars/smalltalk-tmbundle:
 - source.smalltalk
 vendor/grammars/sql.tmbundle:
 - source.sql
+vendor/grammars/st2-zonefile:
+- text.zone_file
 vendor/grammars/standard-ml.tmbundle:
 - source.cm
 - source.ml
diff --git a/lib/linguist/languages.yml b/lib/linguist/languages.yml
index 812ceb7f..99a8a19d 100644
--- a/lib/linguist/languages.yml
+++ b/lib/linguist/languages.yml
@@ -750,6 +750,13 @@ DM:
   tm_scope: source.c++
   ace_mode: c_cpp
 
+DNS Zone:
+  type: data
+  extensions:
+  - .zone
+  tm_scope: text.zone_file
+  ace_mode: text
+
 DTrace:
   type: programming
   aliases:
diff --git a/samples/DNS Zone/sneaky.net.zone b/samples/DNS Zone/sneaky.net.zone
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1276be5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samples/DNS Zone/sneaky.net.zone	
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+$TTL 3d
+@ IN SOA root.localhost. root.sneaky.net. (
+    2015042907 ; serial
+    3d         ; refresh
+    1h         ; retry
+    12d        ; expire
+    2h         ; negative response TTL
+  )
+  IN NS root.localhost.
+  IN NS localhost. ; secondary name server is preferably externally maintained
+
+www IN A 3.141.59.26
diff --git a/vendor/grammars/st2-zonefile b/vendor/grammars/st2-zonefile
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..0d943fef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/grammars/st2-zonefile
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 0d943fefb815262804f0ae309b08221f34eda054