To understand why DNS failures can be so disruptive, it's helpful to know how the Domain Name System is constructed. The ...

If you operate authoritative DNS infrastructure or utilize a service provided by another organization, make sure that infrastructure has the right defenses. The Fast Company Executive Board is a ...

Two recent events are once again bringing the internet’s foundational Domain Name System into the news, and not in a good way. The first event involving the DNS last week was a warning from the ...

An Internet attack flooded domain name manager UltraDNS with a deluge of data late last week, causing administrators to scramble to keep up and running the servers that host .info and other domains.

I don't typically delve into technical issues in this column, but this month I'm going to take a shallow dive because there's an important issue that I think government CIOs, especially state CIOs, ...

Following years of debate and discussion, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced yesterday at a special meeting in Singapore that it had approved a plan to bring ...

When using the Internet most people connect to web sites, ftp servers or other Internet servers by connecting to a domain name, as in www.bleepingcomputer.com. Internet applications, though, do not ...

Zeynep Seda Alhas, Pınar Arıkan and Baran Güney of Gün + Partners identify several shortcomings with the new provisions regarding domain name disputes in Turkey Nic.tr (.tr Domain Name Management), ...

I recently got a call from a friend whose business was having problems with an internal network whose web server had a URL that included .guru. One day, their staff had trouble reaching it. They'd ...