E-mail is old and complex. It’s the oldest still-recognizable component of the Internet, with its modern incarnation having coalesced out of several different decades-old messaging technologies ...

A key component of the Internet and how it works revolves around the Domain Name System, otherwise known as DNS. The underlying technology behind the Internet, is that when a computer needs to talk to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In mid-May, the Federal Bureau of Investigations lost control over seized domains, including Megaupload.com, when the agency failed to renew a key domain name of its own. That domain, which hosted the ...

The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the foundations of the internet, working in the background to match the names of web sites that people type into a search box with the corresponding IP address, ...

Corporations need to ensure that their domain name servers are fully redundant and geographically dispersed to avoid risking prolonged loss of connectivity to services such as Web browsing, remote log ...