Why it matters: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a non-profit entity that oversees the Domain Name System (DNS) and develops policies for new generic top-level ...

More than a million domain names — including many registered by Fortune 100 firms and brand protection companies — are vulnerable to takeover by cybercriminals thanks to authentication weaknesses at a ...

A particular topic of interest in the blockchain space is the emergence of blockchain-related projects in the domain name system (DNS) and domain ecosystem. Handshake, in particular, has been gaining ...

The domain name system in New Zealand is undergoing one of the most radical changes to the way it is managed since its inception. InternetNZ, formerly the Internet Society of New Zealand (ISOCNZ), is ...

I need to take a running windows desktop box that's part of a domain, give it a new computer name, and then continue working on it (with the box having the new name), without having to reboot at all.

Direct navigation — the act of visiting a website by manually typing a domain name in a web browser — has never been riskier: ...

Changing a domain name in Windows is a straightforward task in most cases. However, there are times when you are trying to join a new network or set up Active Directory, and you might be unable to ...

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