A DNS server – short for Domain Name System server – helps your web browser connect to the internet and load websites properly.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft says users of its Azure cloud portal may be not be able to access Office 365, Minecraft or other services due to ...