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“We are not a DNS company, despite the name, and despite everything we’re talking about,” NS1 founder and CEO Kris Beevers says. That might sound counter-intuitive, given that the company’s flagship ...

You would have probably come across DNS management while surfing the internet in search of a web hosting platform. DNS is like an address book of the internet. The DNS management system is a system ...

In the early days of networking, if you wanted to send a message from one machine to another, you manually entered the IP address. This quickly became unsustainable as the network grew and heaps of ...

DNS is the internet's digital phone book, and impacts your browsing performance, security, and which websites you can access. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Ever heard about the term “DNS” when using the Internet? DNS stands for Domain Name System. Before we go ahead and talk about what DNS is and how DNS lookup works, let us understand what the D in the ...

Google's 8.8.8.8 is anycast, so it gets you a nearby DNS server automatically. If your ISPs DNS host is crummy, it probably has better performance. Many times DNS makes a big performance difference in ...

You use Domain Name System (DNS) servers many times every day, even if you don’t know what they are. You can’t avoid it, and whichever one you use can track where you go on the internet. That’s why ...

A little more than a year ago, details emerged about an effort by some members of the hacktivist group Anonymous to build a new weapon to replace their aging denial-of-service arsenal. The new weapon ...

The EU now offers its own DNS resolution service (Resolver) and wants to help its citizens to become less dependent on offers from large US companies such as Cloudflare and Google. The service is ...