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Domain Name Systems

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ALSO CALLED: DNS
DEFINITION: A domain name locates an organization or other entity on the Internet. For example, the domain name
www.totalbaseball.com
locates an Internet address for "totalbaseball.com" at Internet point 199.0.0.2 and a particular host server named "www". The "com" part of the domain name reflects the purpose of the organization or entity (in this example, "commercial") and  … 
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Recent Vendor Reports on Domain Name Systems
Protect Your DNS Infrastructure from Attack!
sponsored by BT INS
WEBCAST: Attend this free webinar to learn about DNSSEC and how it can help resolve DNS cache poisoning attacks. This webinar will be live September 11, 2008 from 12:00 noon EDT to 1:00 PM EDT. See you there.
Posted: 28 Aug 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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TOPICS:  Domain Name System Management | Domain Name Systems | Infrastructure Management | IP Address Management Software | IP Routing | Reporting Software | Server Management | Vulnerability Management
Editor's Desk: What You Need: DNSSEC
sponsored by Information Security Magazine
JOURNAL ARTICLE: Like most of the early Internet protocols, DNS wasn't meant to carry the burden it does today. It wasn't built with an Internet-as-ecommerce platform in mind. What's needed today is DNSSEC, more formally known as DNS Security Extensions.
Posted: 24 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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TOPICS:  Cybersecurity | Cyberterrorism | Domain Name System Management | Domain Name Systems | Security Policies | Security Threats
Best Practices for Next Generation IP Address Management
sponsored by BT INS
WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides IT professionals with a guide to flawlessly execute tasks for IP management and recommends 19 crucial best practices for simplifying the IP management process. These best practices are derived from numerous implementations of...
Posted: 09 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Nov 2005
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TOPICS:  Best Practices | DHCP | Domain Name Systems | IP Address Management | VoIP
IPv4-to-IPv6 Transition Strategies
sponsored by BT INS
WHITE PAPER: With existing IPv4 space becoming scarce, organizations are actively planning their network transition from IPv4 to Ipv6 technology. This paper provides an overview of IPv6 addressing, DHCPv6, DNS support of IPv6 and IPv6 address management...
Posted: 09 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2007
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TOPICS:  Domain Name System Management | Domain Name Systems | Internet Access | IP Address Management Software | Network Service Providers | Product Management
Sapphire DNS Anycast
sponsored by BT INS
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper details how a new solution increases efficiency in deployment of DNS services.
Posted: 09 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008
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TOPICS:  Denial of Service Attacks | Domain Name System Management | Domain Name Systems | High Availability | IP Address Management Software
Harnessing More Value from your Master Data: An Introduction to Multiform Master Data Management
sponsored by IBM
SOFTWARE DEMO: This presentation about Multiform Master Data Management by IBM discusses the basic challenges around master data in today's organizations, the symptoms and root causes of bad data, and identifies data relationships across domains.
Posted: 29 May 2008 | Published: 29 May 2008
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TOPICS:  Customer Data Integration | Data Quality | Data Storage | Database Administrators | Domain Name Systems | Master Data Management | Product Management
ONLINE, ON TARGET: Securing a High-Performance Online Address for Your Business
sponsored by BuyDomains.com
WHITE PAPER: This brief is designed to review the basics about acquiring a great domain for your online business.
Posted: 20 Mar 2008 | Published: 20 Mar 2008
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TOPICS:  Business Consulting Services | Domain Name System Management | Domain Name Systems | Web Development Tools | Web Site Design Services
Removing Internet Anonymity Barriers with IP Intelligence
sponsored by Digital Element
WHITE PAPER: NetAcuity IP Intelligence technology provides an excellent way to non-invasively gather new intelligence about the online universe, and Digital Element delivers the de facto standard in IP Intelligence.
Posted: 31 Jan 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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TOPICS:  Content Delivery | Domain Name Systems | IP Addresses | Localization | Online Advertising | Personalization | Search Engine Marketing | Web Analytics | Web Analytics Software | Web Identities
Incognito Software Introduces Name Commander™ with Successful Deployment at BT
sponsored by Incognito Software, Inc.
PRESS RELEASE:Incognito Software today announced the availability of Name Commander – a carrier-class domain name system (DNS) management solution. Also announced is the successful deployment of this solution at BT.
Posted: 22 Oct 2003 | Published: 01 Oct 2003
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TOPICS:  Domain Name System Management | Domain Name Systems | Network Management Software
 
DOMAIN NAME SYSTEMS DEFINITION (continued): …  is called the top-level domain name. The "totalbaseball" part of the domain name defines the organization or entity and together with the top-level is called the second-level domain name. The second-level domain name maps to and can be thought of as the "readable" version of the Internet address.

A third level can be defined to identify a particular host server at the Internet address. In our example, "www" is the name of the server that handles Internet requests. (A second server might be called "www2".) A third level of domain name is not required. For example, … 
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