What is a DNS server? How Domain Name System servers connect you to the internet

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

Attackers target the Domain Name System, the internet’s phone book. Here’s how to fight back

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 ...
SFGate

Internet domain-name application process opens

Finding a domain name could be about to get dot-complicated. The global body charged with coordinating the Internet's naming system is accepting applications for what are called generic top-level ...
Forbes

What Is The Domain Name System And Why Does It Matter?

DNS underpins all important services that run over the internet, including the World Wide Web, email, messaging and more. In some cases, you can tell that a service relies on DNS because the addresses ...

What Is DNS Failure? (And How To Fix It)

DNS server isn't responding,' 'DNS lookup failed,' 'NXDOMAIN' and 'DNS resolution timeout' are just some of the possible ways ...
9NEWS

U.S. keeps control of Internet domain name system for another year

DENVER BUSINESS JOURNAL - The U.S. government will retain oversight of the Internet domain name system for at least another year. That's because "the Internet's global multistakeholder community"needs ...
Computerworld

Internet domain name servers get more security

To make the 13 servers that run the Internet’s core addressing system more secure, the two machines operated by VeriSign Inc. in the U.S. have been physically and electronically separated to make them ...
The Gazette

Jim Flynn: Resolving Internet domain name disputes efficiently and cost effectively

As you might have noticed, international cooperation these days is hard to come by. But one area where international cooperation is alive and well has to do with the resolution of internet domain name ...
PC World

Internet naming system not U.S. property, says congressional watchdog

The U.S. Government Accountability Office has said that the internet domain name system is unlikely to be government property, ahead of the planned transfer by month end of the oversight of key ...
PBS

Hackers are flooding the internet with more fake domain names. Here’s how you can protect yourself

A new report released Wednesday shows the use of fake internet domain names to trick consumers into giving up personal information is more widespread than experts originally thought. Using fake ...
China Internet Information Center

China Internet Domain Name Regulations

Article 1 China Internet Domain Name Regulations (hereafter the Regulations) are formulated in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state and with reference to the international rules for ...