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 ...

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What Is DNS, Anyway? Simply put, Domain Name System (DNS) is the phone book of the internet. It’s the system that converts website domain names (hostnames) into numerical values (IP address) so they ...

The Domain Name System, like most pieces of the internet, was designed to be distributed across many computers. Concentration ...

On February 4, you'll be able to get Internet domain names with such new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) names as .CHEAP, .NINJA, or .SEXY. So, yes, if you really wanted to, you could have such ...

Finding a domain name could be about to get dot-complicated. The global body charged with coordinating the Internet's naming system is accepting applications for what are called generic top-level ...

What I'm trying to do is change a server's domain name. This server belonged to a company that was spun off to a new company with a new name etc. So, the old internet address, ssl cert, etc was office ...

Each time you open a browser and type in a web address, there’s a hidden hand sending all the information to your PC to render the page as it should. Those middle-men of your newly loaded webpage are ...

During the early days of the internet, one of the central problems computer scientists faced was that domain names and internet protocol addresses had not been matched up, making them unfriendly to an ...

The .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of 171.9 million domain name registrations in the domain name base at the end of third quarter of 2025, an increase of 1.4 million domain name registrations ...