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DNS underpins all important services that run over the internet, including the World Wide Web, email, messaging and more. In some cases, you can tell that a service relies on DNS because the addresses ...

The Internet has roots reaching back to the late 1950s, but the World Wide Web wasn't made publicly accessible until 1993. We now rely on the global network for everything from basic communication to ...

20, 2025, the affected servers weren't actually down. The problem was more fundamental – their names couldn't be found.

Today, half of America’s internet shut down when hackers unleashed a large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the servers of Dyn, a major DNS host. It’s still unclear exactly who carried ...