The domain name system is an important network utility built-in to your operating system used to translate host names to IP addresses. For DNS to function your operating system must communicate with ...

Conducting a web search? The Domain Name System converts website names into IP addresses so your computer can understand the query. Here's what that means.

Domain administrators have long been encouraged to use .local for internal domain names, because this TLD is reserved for use by local networks and cannot be routed over the open Internet.

A DNS server – short for Domain Name System server – helps your web browser connect to the internet and load websites properly.

The foundational Domain Name System, essentially the phone book for the internet, used to be something nobody using the net much noticed, but lately it has become more of a target, and the cost of ...

For years, we've used the obscure 192.168.x.x IP address to identify your local network. ICANN, which oversees the Internet, has proposed a new .INTERNAL domain to make it clearer.

The economics of surveillance capitalism and a world of paranoid apps will transform the domain name system (DNS), says Geoff Huston, chief scientist at APNIC Labs, part of the Asia Pacific ...