Computerworld

U.S. proposes digital signing of DNS root zone file

The U.S. government is seeking input on a way to make the Internet’s addressing system less susceptible to tampering by hackers. Under the idea, records in the Domain Name System (DNS) root zone would ...
Ars Technica

A root-server at the Internet’s core lost touch with its peers. We still don’t know why.

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 stability and ...
TMCnet

Verisign Announces Delegation of .Web

Operating the world's most technically sophisticated and globally distributed gTLD registry infrastructure, Verisign is uniquely positioned to operate .web at the same level of performance and ...
Computing

One of the internet’s most important keys is about to change, and you need to be ready

When ICANN updates the internet’s root cryptographic key this year it should be an invisible process for consumers, but IT teams must be prepared to take action. Multiple times a year – navigating ...
Computerworld

U.S. gov’t proposes digital signing of DNS root zone file

The U.S. government is soliciting input on a way to make the Internet’s addressing system less susceptible to tampering by hackers. Under the idea, records in the DNS (Domain Name System) root zone ...