World Wide Web and hypertext markup language (HTML) inventor Tim Berners-Lee said that if he were building a domain name service (DNS) today, he would make it “more decentralized.” Speaking at ETH ...

ICANN has unanimously approved a request by the Public Interest Registry (which handles .org domains) to become the first generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) to switch to the DNS security protocol DNSSEC.

Although DNSSEC has already been deployed for many generic and country-level top-level domains ... the top that manage what is known as the DNS root zone. There are authoritative DNS servers ...

In a historic decision on Friday, the United States has decided to give up control of the authoritative root zone file, which contains all names and addresses of all top-level domain names.

Redmond advises using separate DNS names and zones for internal and external hosts to avoid DNS conflicts and network issues, and provides detailed documentation on how to properly configure DNS ...

Under the idea, records in the DNS root zone would be cryptographically signed ... Other ccTLDs (country-code Top-Level Domains) operators in Sweden (.se), Brazil (.br), Puerto Rico (.pr), and ...

The problem is in the way that some DNS servers will respond to zone transfer requests from other servers. Primary DNS servers are set up to replicate specific information about their zones to ...

Shock decision may be connected to Brazil's anger over NSA snooping on Petrobras ahead of ICANN meeting in that country The US is to relinquish control of the root zone file, which contains all ...

A well-designed DNS firewall solution like D-Zone DNS Firewall can effectively close that gap.” Find out more about D-Zone DNS Firewall. The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA ...