Internet users' experience highly depends on how efficiently the Domain Name Server (DNS) works while browsing the internet. The DNS converts human-understandable domain names to ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

Your ISP's DNS servers are likely the fastest due to their proximity to you. If you don't want to use them, try a DNS ...

My older kid was trying to apply for college at a university in Florida. Perversely, its website refused to appear. He tried Safari, Firefox, and Chrome on his Mac and Safari on his iPhone. Only his ...

Cloudflare is an old hand at speeding up corporate internet services with its content delivery network (CDN). The company is also a pro at blocking Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Now, ...

Conducting a web search? The Domain Name System converts website names into IP addresses so your computer can understand the query. Here's what that means. Simply put, Domain Name System (DNS) is the ...

As many as 64,000 Americans’ computers may still be affected by malware that will cause them to lose Internet service come Monday, so if you haven’t already, make sure you aren’t among them. There’s ...

DNS over TLS or DoT is an encrypted DNS protocol. It is considered an alternative to DNS over HTTPS (DoH). In this post, we will see how you can enable DNS over TLS in Windows 11 and what this ...