The company in charge of maintaining the database of Internet domain names announced yesterday that it has begun a test of assigned IP addresses to non-English domain names. VeriSign Global Registry ...

Operating systems like Windows 7 have a special text file that is used locally to map IP address to domain or host names. This file is usually called the "hosts" file. The hosts file can be used to ...

DNS is one of the services most people outsource by default. Most folks use their ISP's default DNS settings, or ...

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. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than ...

It is uncommon, but some sites actually work and run off their IP address, instead of a domain name. DNS, the domain name system, was created to give people an easy way to find a web site, but a ...

I'm having DNS issues with two of our websites. The project is eliminating our hosting provider and bringing everything in-house. I'm tasked with reconfiguring the nameservers for those domains and ...