A domain name system helps computers translate domain names into IP addresses. Every domain name has its own unique IP address, giving it an address on the Internet. When you type in a website address ...

Google announced today that it’s launching its own DNS resolution service, which it says will improve the experience of browsing the web. (See our easy setup instructions at the end of this post.) A ...

Google finalizes its DNS-over-HTTPS service. Google announced general availability of its Public DNS-over-HTTPS service Wednesday, based on the Internet Engineering Task Force’s RFC 8484 standard. The ...

Inside your car, press a button as you approach your home. The garage door rises and you drive inside. You can thank C.G. Johnson, who invented the electric garage door opener in 1926, and two other ...

Changing your DNS settings is often touted as a way to speed up your internet browsing. But I was skeptical about how much of a difference a simple DNS server change could actually influence my ...

Google has launched Google Public DNS as an alternative domain name service for any Internet user. Designed to replace the DNS services provided by ISPs or companies, Google says that its DNS will be ...

Earlier this month, Google announced that it had become the largest public DNS service in the world, handling an average of more than 70 billion requests a day. From Google's point of view, this was ...

The Internet's a dangerous place for an innocent Web browser to be searching alone for the right Web page, so the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) was created to make searching safer.