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 requested ...

One of several domain name system (DNS) servers on the Internet that contain the IP addresses of the top-level domain (TLD) registry organizations that maintain the global domains (.com, .net, .gov, ...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has turned on an ICANN Managed Root Server (IMRS) cluster in Singapore, marking it the first of such site in Asia-Pacific. The region ...

South Africa has an 'insurance policy` against an Internet catastrophe, with its own root name server now operational at the Johannesburg Internet Exchange (JINX), thanks to volunteers and ...

An unusual DDoS amplification attack was carried out 10 days ago against many of the Internet’s 13 root name servers, the authoritative servers used to resolve IP addresses. An unusual DDoS ...

Scientists at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UCSD analyzing traffic to one of the 13 Domain Name System (DNS) "root" servers at the heart of the Internet found that the server ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Server racks in server room cloud data center. (Image credit: BigStock/Kwarkot) Every Wednesday ...

Provided a couple of programmers are correct, what started out as an attempt to provide better Domain Name System (DNS) server performance on Windows machines may also be one way to reduce DNS ...

Teraco has stated it will sponsor colocation infrastructure to all 13 global root operators. “In sponsoring colocation infrastructure, we hope to increase the number of root operators available within ...

On November 30 and December 1, 2015 unknown attackers unleashed two massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against many of the 13 DNS root name servers in what looked like an attempt to ...