One of several domain name system (DNS) servers on the Internet that contain the IP addresses of the top-level domain (TLD) registry organizations that maintain the global domains (.com, .net, .gov, ...

IPv6 took another significant step forward yesterday, as the root DNS zone was updated with IPv6 addresses for six of the 13 root servers. Most root servers are "anycasted:" physical machines are ...

For more than four days, a server at the very core of the Internet’s domain name system was out of sync with its 12 root server peers due to an unexplained glitch that could have caused stability and ...

As the operator of some of the core Internet name servers, including the DNS root, .com and .net, Verisign has a unique view into the challenges of transitioning to IPv6 and progress to date. The ...

To much fanfare, Chinese officials last week greenlighted the country’s “first root server,” which acts like a phonebook of sorts for the internet, translating internet protocol (IP) addresses into ...

An unusual DDoS amplification attack was carried out 10 days ago against many of the Internet’s 13 root name servers, the authoritative servers used to resolve IP addresses. An unusual DDoS ...

The Domain Name System (DNS) in 2005 serves aglobal Internet far larger and more diverse, in users and in uses, than the relatively small homogeneous network for which it was first deployed in the ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 14, 2003--The region's Internet users served by Etisalat's Internet Network will now experience faster access to web sites following the installation of the ...

Two VeriSign researchers are expected to deliver a talk this week that explains how two Chinese domains were the targets of 2015 DDoS attacks that impacted the Internet’s root name servers. When the ...