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Managing Mission - Critical Domains and DNS

You're reading from   Managing Mission - Critical Domains and DNS Demystifying nameservers, DNS, and domain names

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789135077
Length 368 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mark E.Jeftovic Mark E.Jeftovic
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Preface 1. The Domain Name Ecosystem FREE CHAPTER 2. Registries, Registrars, and Whois 3. Intellectual Property Issues 4. Communication Breakdowns 5. A Tale of Two Nameservers 6. DNS Queries in Action 7. Types and Uses of Common Resource Records 8. Quasi-Record Types 9. Common Nameserver Software 10. Debugging Without Tears – DNS Diagnostic Tools 11. DNS Operations and Use Cases 12. Nameserver Considerations 13. Securing Your Domains and DNS 14. DNS and DDoS Attacks 15. IPv6 Considerations 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Which domains should your organization register?

Under which TLD suffixes should your organization register? In the old days (before 2014), a lot of registrars would try to goad their customers into registering their organization or brand names in every TLD that was available.

"Get your name before somebody else does!" was the well-worn mantra that was constantly broadcast at registrants every time a new generic TLD came out or some country code decided to brand themselves as some sort of pseudo-TLD.

In a lot of cases it worked, because managers, IP departments, or lawyers would think that there is an obligation to defend the organization's intellectual property in any way they can. What that meant was that a lot of organizations would make it a habit to register their name in every TLD that they possibly could.

Now that the new TLDs are here, there are over 1,000...

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