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 ...

Domain Name System. The Domain Name System is the system used on the Internet for the mapping of names, such as www.google.com, to IP Addresses such as 216.239.51.99.

The Domain Name System converts website names into IP addresses so your computer can understand the query. Here's what that means. By John Bogna. July 5, 2022 ...

Two recent events are once again bringing the internet's foundational Domain Name System into the news, and not in a good way.The first event involving the DNS last week was a warning from the Cyb.

DNS – or domain name system – is the protocol on the internet that turns human-comprehensible website names such as bbc.co.uk or guardian.co.uk into addresses understandable by machines. DNS ...

The man largely responsible for developing the system which turns addresses on the web into numbers has received a prestigious award. Paul Mockapetris, chief scientist at Nominum, has been given an ...