Scientists at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UCSD analyzing traffic to one of the 13 Domain Name System (DNS) "root" servers at the heart of the Internet found that the server ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has turned on an ICANN Managed Root Server (IMRS) cluster in Singapore, marking it the first of such site in Asia-Pacific. The region ...

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 ...

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 ...

Please excuse this if it's in the wrong area, wasn't sure if I should post in Nix, or Networking. I'm working on a DNS introduction class for my group and running across one question which I'm not ...