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Managing Mission - Critical Domains and DNS

By : Mark E.Jeftovic
Book Image

Managing Mission - Critical Domains and DNS

By: Mark E.Jeftovic

Overview of this book

Managing your organization's naming architecture and mitigating risks within complex naming environments is very important. This book will go beyond looking at “how to run a name server” or “how to DNSSEC sign a domain”, Managing Mission Critical Domains & DNS looks across the entire spectrum of naming; from external factors that exert influence on your domains to all the internal factors to consider when operating your DNS. The readers are taken on a comprehensive guided tour through the world of naming: from understanding the role of registrars and how they interact with registries, to what exactly is it that ICANN does anyway? Once the prerequisite knowledge of the domain name ecosystem is acquired, the readers are taken through all aspects of DNS operations. Whether your organization operates its own nameservers or utilizes an outsourced vendor, or both, we examine the complex web of interlocking factors that must be taken into account but are too frequently overlooked. By the end of this book, our readers will have an end to end to understanding of all the aspects covered in DNS name servers.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Types and Uses of Common Resource Records

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...