The Address (A) record associates a domain name or subdomain with an IP address, which is the primary purpose of the DNS system. The @ sign identifies "this domain;" for example, A @ nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn ...

Microsoft says a mishap during a DNS migration was behind a nearly two-hour Azure outage on May 2, between 19:43 and 22:35 UTC. The global incident impacted a whole range of Microsoft cloud services, ...

Despite a welcome and needed DNS revamp, preventable abuse continues. The Domain Name System (DNS), known as the phone book for the internet, was recently retuned to improve performance as well as ...

CSC, an enterprise-class domain registrar and world leader in mitigating domain and domain name system (DNS) threats, today released its “Subdomain Hijacking Vulnerabilities Report” that reviewed over ...

Google's Gary Illyes confirmed that Google does look at domain name records for discovery of new domains to include in the Google Search Index. He said this at the 9:40 mark into yesterday's Search ...