“Therefore, controlling the root name servers means controlling the distribution of IP addresses and domain names.” China is already home to 10 root server instances, according to a map on the RSTOA ...

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 ...

In spite of the potential hazards, a wide distribution of localized DNS may make denial-of-service attacks against root servers less likely. Paul Mockapetris, chief scientist at Nominum Inc. and ...

Just before year's end, ICANN/IANA sent out a short message saying that "on 4 February 2008, IANA will add AAAA records for the IPv6 addresses of the four root servers whose operators have ...

and country code domains (.uk, .ca, .fr, etc.). The first point of entry for resolving a domain name, there are currently 34 root servers throughout the world operated by government agencies and ...

In an effort to detect whether a network will hijack DNS queries, Google's Chrome browser and its Chromium-based brethren randomly conjures up three domain names between 7 and 15 characters to ...

Just before Halloween this year, someone tried to take down the Internet by attacking the 13 root DNS servers, the computers that translate names like www.blahblah.com into their true numerical ...