Summary In this episode of The Defenders Log, Paul Mockapetris, the architect of DNS, discusses the evolving role of the Domain Name System from a simple directory to a sophisticated security tool. He ...

Your domain name is essentially your business storefront—where old and new customers find you. And with a memorable domain name, you can easily stand out from your competition. But what exactly is a ...

More than a million domain names — including many registered by Fortune 100 firms and brand protection companies — are vulnerable to takeover by cybercriminals thanks to authentication weaknesses at a ...

Web hosting and domains are both essential to publishing a website. Learn how they work -- and how they work together. Dianna Gunn built her first WordPress website in 2008. Since then, she's poured ...

A DNS server – short for Domain Name System server – converts web addresses into IP addresses. Without a DNS server, you won't be able to connect to any websites. If you're having issues with your ...

The Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) is a set of specifications that extend the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol by adding cryptographic authentication for responses received from ...

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 ...

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a major functional component of the modern Internet. We rely on it for just about everything! It’s responsible for translating human-friendly domain names into ...

BRS Media, a diverse and growing media e-commerce firm that assists traditional and interactive media companies build and brand on the power of the Internet, today announced that dotFM, the .FM ...

Editorial Note: Forbes Advisor may earn a commission on sales made from partner links on this page, but that doesn't affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. A top-level domain (TLD) is the last ...