(THE CONVERSATION) When millions of people suddenly couldn’t load familiar websites and apps during the Amazon Web Services, or AWS, outage on Oct. 20, 2025, the affected servers weren’t actually down ...

Open-source DNS tools can speed up your network, improve privacy and cut down on junk traffic. Here are 3 worth exploring.

When you enter a Web address into your browser, one of the first things your PC does is contact a domain name server to get routing information for the address. In most cases your PC sends DNS ...

There are so many hackers around these days, and they are becoming very smart. So smart that they have successfully taken down many government websites. The most recent attack was on the Department of ...

Some of the shady crowd behind the Pirate Bay file sharing Website have announced plans for a peer-to-peer domain name system (DNS), called P2P DNS. DNS is the behind-the-scenes technology that ...

Instead of broadcasting your Domain Name System requests in plaintext, DNS over HTTPS encrypts your requests so that they're ...

In July the Internet Systems Consortium will permanently shut down DNS servers deployed to serve as temporary surrogates for rogue DNS servers shut down as part of Operation Ghost Click, an FBI ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Doug Jacobson, Iowa State University (THE CONVERSATION) When millions of people ...

Amazon Web Services, hosted in data centers like this one in Virginia, supports thousands of websites, apps and online services – but not during its recent DNS outage. Nathan Howard/Getty Images When ...