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DNS gets first standard for commercial intent: RFC 10023 enables for-sale tags

DNS for-sale domain signaling is now an IETF internet standard: RFC 10023 lets any domain owner embed a machine-readable ...
The Conversation

What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of the web – and why it’s the internet’s Achilles’ heel

When millions of people suddenly couldn’t load familiar websites and apps during the Amazon Web Services, or AWS, outage on Oct. 20, 2025, the affected servers weren’t actually down. The problem was ...
Network World

From dangling DNS records to reverse DNS gaps, attackers find new blind spots

Among 120 million newly registered domains, more than 22% were weaponized or showed threat characteristics, according to Infoblox's 2026 Threat Landscape Report.
Bleeping Computer

Sitting Ducks DNS attacks let hackers hijack over 35,000 domains

Threat actors have hijacked more than 35,000 registered domains in so-called Sitting Ducks attacks that allow claiming a domain without having access to the owner's account at the DNS provider or ...
ZDNet

What are the fastest DNS providers?

Cloudflare made headlines by introducing its new, fast Domain Name System (DNS) resolver, which boasted improved security and faster reaction times. But, is Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 really faster than ...
PC Magazine

DNS records

The Address (A) record associates a domain name or subdomain with an IP address, which is the primary purpose of the DNS system. The @ sign identifies "this domain;" for example, A @ nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn ...