We recently did a PodSnack on the top-level domain (TLD) structure in DNS . In that PodSnack, I made reference to the root name server s in the Internet, and promised to explain it in another PodSnack. Well, there's no time like the present! Tune Read More...

You use DNS every day, and probably never think about it. You most likely don't even think of what happens when you type in (or click on) a name like www.hill.com . What happens, however, is a relatively straightforward process of mapping the name Read More...

In this week's episode, Dave and Mark were left to hold down the fort. It is a notable week in so much as it marks the end of an era, as Bill Gates officially transitions away from Microsoft and focuses on his philanthropic activities. Below are the Read More...

We humans like words and names. Computers can deal with words and names, but they tend to deal with numbers. In fact, most addresses at the lower layers are numerical. I don't know about you, but I have a hard time remember a handful of phone numbers. Read More...

We humans like words and names. Computers can deal with words and names, but they tend to deal with numbers. In fact, most addresses at the lower layers are numerical. I don't know about you, but I have a hard time remember a handful of phone numbers. Read More...

Where there's a net, there's a way to make money on it. Internet domains have been a way to make money for a long time. When the Internet became a phenomenon in the 1990s, there were many enterprising souls who went out and bought some fairly Read More...