Managing Mission-Critical Domains and DNS

Manage your organization’s naming architecture effectively, from the administrative/policy side right through to the technical DNS and nameserver implementations. This practical book takes you through the basics—the anatomies of domain names and DNS requests—and covers DNS and domain issues from a variety of perspectives, including strategy, security, and intellectual property.

Ideal for sysadmins, webmasters, IT consultants, and developers—anyone responsible for maintaining your organization’s core DNS, or DNS for its downstream users or clients—this book provides strategic checklists and contains up-to-date case studies of DNS disasters.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Domain Names
Chapter 2. Registries, Registrars & TLD Providers
Chapter 3. Whois
Chapter 4. Intellectual Property & Legal Issues
Chapter 5. Managing Your Portfolio
Chapter 6. Common Pitfalls
Chapter 7. Types of Nameservers
Chapter 8. DNS Queries In Action
Chapter 9. Types and Uses of Common Resource Records (and some not-so-common ones…)