Ars Technica

DNS: Why Does My Domain Name Resolve to an Internal IP?

I'm having DNS issues with two of our websites. The project is eliminating our hosting provider and bringing everything in-house. I'm tasked with reconfiguring the nameservers for those domains and ...
Krebs on Security

Local Networks Go Global When Domain Names Collide

The proliferation of new top-level domains (TLDs) has exacerbated a well-known security weakness: Many organizations set up their internal Microsoft authentication systems years ago using domain names ...
Network World

Internal-use SSL certificates pose security risk for upcoming domain extensions

The practice of issuing SSL certificates for internal domain names with unqualified extensions could endanger the privacy and integrity of HTTPS communications for upcoming generic top-level domains ...
Ars Technica

Internal network Domain name? .local or .com?

This thread was useful but it meandered a bit.<BR><BR>http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/...4030731#499004030731<BR><BR>Could some one comment on ...
Computerworld

Top-level domain expansion is a security risk for business computers

The explosion of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) in recent years can put enterprise computers at risk due to name conflicts between internal domain names used inside corporate networks and those ...
TechSpot

ICANN to reserve the ".internal" top-level domain for private networks

Why it matters: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a non-profit entity that oversees the Domain Name System (DNS) and develops policies for new generic top-level ...