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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

The Trademark Clearing House

For a good number of new TLDs under which you won't or can't directly register your names, you can gain some defence of your marks by making use of the Trademark Clearing House.

This provides a mechanism where you register your marks, allow other parties to register labels matching those marks, provided they go through an additional step where they are made aware of the contending marks and affirm that their use of the domain does not infringe on the mark.

When registering an affected domain, you may see an additional step, as in the following screen, which occurred upon registering our planb.works domain and ran into the trademark asserted by the Plan B contraceptive (one reason why we never ended up using that name after all). Take a look at this screenshot:

Figure 3.2: Confirmation to acknowledge a non-competing trademark for a name

The...