Abstract The Domain Name System (DNS) plays a crucial role in connecting services and
users on the Internet. Since its first specification, DNS has been extended in numerous …

Active DNS measurement is fundamental to understanding and improving the DNS
ecosystem. However, the absence of an extensible, high-performance, and easy-to-use …

Policy makers in regions such as Europe are increasingly concerned about the
trustworthiness and sovereignty of the foundations of their digital economy, because it often …

In this paper, we propose PHOENIX DOMAIN, a general and novel attack that allows
adversaries to maintain the revoked malicious domain continuously resolvable at scale …

Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks both abuse and target core Internet infrastructures and
services, including the Domain Name System (DNS). To characterize recent DDoS attacks …

DNS is one of the core building blocks of the Internet. In this paper, we investigate DNS
resolution in a strict IPv6-only scenario and find that a substantial fraction of zones cannot be …

In recent years, the security implication of stale NS records, which point to a nameserver that
no longer resolves the domain, has been unveiled. Prior research studied the stale DNS …

Authoritative domain name servers (referred to as authoritative servers) play a critical role in
the Domain Name System (DNS) by resolving domain names to specific IP or CNAME …

The Domain Name System (DNS) fundamentally relies on glue records to provide
authoritative nameserver IP addresses, enabling essential in-domain delegation. While …

The modern Internet relies on the Domain Name System (DNS) to convert between human-
readable domain names and IP addresses. However, the correct and efficient …