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Nominet signs .co.uk with DNSSEC

...DNSSEC relies on a chain of trust within the DNS infrastructure, from root servers through to individual zones. Icann published the root zone anchor for... Read more

9 May, 2011

Hacker takes credit for ESA 'breach'

...passwords and email addresses related to the organisation, along with details of root servers and databases. In his blog, hacker TinKode listed email addresses allegedly... Read more

18 April, 2011 by Darren Pauli

China hijacked UK internet traffic, says McAfee

The security company has said that internet traffic for 15 percent of the world, including for UK and US military and civilian governments, was redirected through Chinese servers in April Read more

18 November, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Mystery of web traffic redirect to China remains unsolved

...as a result of traffic interception via one of the main DNS root servers. This had the result of giving web surfers in western countries... Read more

11 October, 2010 by Elinor Mills

DNSSEC protocol kicks off in internet root zone

...published the root zone trust anchor. This allows the operators of internet root servers to begin to issue certificates to verify who they are to... Read more

15 July, 2010 by Tom Espiner
How to test your resolver for DNS reply-size issues

How to test your resolver for DNS reply-size issues

...packets. Following the signing of the J-root in May 2010, all root servers are now serving a deliberately unvalidatable root zone — or Durz for... Read more

12 July, 2010 by Anand Buddhdev
VeriSign's goal: Bump up internet bandwidth 1,000 times

VeriSign's goal: Bump up internet bandwidth 1,000 times

...to US security company VeriSign. The company, which administers one of the root servers of the internet, has started a project to deal with the... Read more

9 July, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Icann gives nod to Chinese characters, .xxx

...officer for VeriSign, which is one of the companies that administer the root servers of the internet. However, it may cause difficulties around intellectual property... Read more

28 June, 2010 by Tom Espiner

VeriSign's CEO hits back at critics

...also says it's time to transfer the responsibility for operating the root servers from volunteers to the commercial sector. He discussed these issues in... Read more

23 October, 2003 by Charles Cooper

Key Internet server moved amid security concerns

...runs the machine. The move comes just weeks after hackers bombarded the "root" servers with a flood of data designed to overwhelm them and shut... Read more

11 November, 2002 by Evan Hansen

Four Net backbone servers hit by glitch

...dealt with quickly, so users remained unaffected. The remaining nine so-called root servers continued to operate normally. Full story to follow. What do you... Read more

25 August, 2000 by Rachel Munro

Dyson ends support for ICANN 1.0

Esther Dyson is increasingly distancing herself from the old ICANN as she seeks to create ICANN 2.0 to oversee the Internet's future. But experts are still divided over how the organisation should work Read more

10 February, 2003 by Matt Loney

Keeping ahead of DNS attacks

Defending the rootThe root servers are critical Internet resources, but occupy the "high ground" in terms... Read more

10 January, 2003 by Paul Mockapetris

VeriSign: Internet infrastructure still vulnerable

Authentication company VeriSign, which operates two of the root servers for the internet, has warned that the web is still vulnerable... Read more

7 November, 2008 by Tom Espiner

ICANN turns on IPv6 addresses

...IPv6 has officially begun, after ICANN added the first addresses to its root servers that conform to the new version of the internet protocol. On... Read more

5 February, 2008 by David Meyer

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