DNS has often been criticized for inherent design flaws, which make the system vulnerable
to attack. Further, domain names are not fully controlled by users, meaning that they can …

DNS has always been criticized for its inherent design flaws, making the system vulnerable
to kinds of attacks. Besides, DNS domain names are not fully controlled by the users, which …

The current landscape of the core Internet technologies shows considerable centralisation
with the big tech companies controlling the vast majority of traffic and services. This situation …

We study the operational characteristics of the server-side of the Internet's naming
infrastructure. Our findings discover common architectures whereby name servers are …

The Domain Name System (DNS) provides a scalable, flexible name resolution service.
Unfortunately, its unauthenticated architecture has become the basis for many security …

This paper illuminates the problem of non-secure DNS dynamic updates, which allow a
miscreant to manipulate DNS entries in the zone files of authoritative name servers. We refer …

Abstract The Domain Name System (DNS) provides crucial name resolution functions for
most Internet services. As a result, DNS traffic provides an important attack vector for mass …

Three years after the creation of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN), management of the Domain Name System (DNS) continues to generate …

Naming and name resolution have fundamental roles in the current and future Internet
architectures. In the contemporary Internet, many limitations and problems on this area are …

Abstract The Internet Domain Naming System (DNS) is one of the pillars for the Internet and
has been the subject of various Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks over the years …