A DNS server – short for Domain Name System server – helps your web browser connect to the internet and load websites properly.

Domain Name System (DNS) servers translate human readable host or domain names to numeric IP addresses. Drexel IT Networking manages domain name servers used by the university. At start-up time, most ...

The foundational Domain Name System, essentially the phone book for the internet, used to be something nobody using the net much noticed, but lately it has become more of a target, and the cost of ...

A Domain Name System error that originated from Amazon's largest and oldest data center took down major sites Monday. The ...

The agencies’ guide on selecting a provider of protective DNS services is based on a pilot with the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center. Federal cybersecurity agencies outlined the benefits and ...

Millions around the world found themselves unable to access popular services thanks to a Domain Name System issue with Amazon ...

A particular topic of interest in the blockchain space is the emergence of blockchain-related projects in the domain name system (DNS) and domain ecosystem. Handshake, in particular, has been gaining ...

The Linux host command can retrieve a lot of useful information from the domain name service, but has a lot of options that you need to understand to get started. The host command on Linux systems can ...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) recently announced that, on 28 January 2025, the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) had officially become the “definitive source ...

Japan’s domain name system has seen fundamental changes in the past year. Yasuyoshi Goto and Ari Staiman, of Tokyo Aoyama Aoki/Baker & McKenzie in Tokyo, examine the recently introduced changes In ...

There are more than 370 million registered domain names on the Internet. Millions go unused. And some haven't been updated in years, largely because the companies that registered them have forgotten ...