DNS

General

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_zone

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DNS_record_types
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcard_DNS_record

Articles

• http://bugsplat.info/2012-12-31-how-i-run-my-own-dns.html

• http://saynt2day.blogspot.ru/2013/03/danger-of-trailing-dot-in-domain-name.html

• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/28/i_accidentally_the_internet/

Domains

Do NOT use GoDaddy. Google it.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_registrar
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_registration

Registrars

• http://www.domparison.com - price comparison

• http://www.1and1.co.uk/
  • http://www.1and1.co.uk/details-domain-prices?__lf=Order&linkOrigin=Instant&linkId=ct.btn.domainPrices

• http://123reg.co.uk
  • https://www.123-reg.co.uk/domain-names/cheap-domain-names.shtml
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webfusion

• https://www.gandi.net

• http://www.domainsite.com/name ~£7.50
  • http://name.com

• http://www.ukreg.com/ - .co.uk - £2.95pa*com - £5.99pa.net - £9.49pa.eu - £8.89pa All
  • http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/

• Network Solutions
  • http://www.networksolutions.com/support/changing-payment-methods/
  • http://www.networksolutions.com/support/using-paypal-as-your-payment-method/
  • http://www.networksolutions.com/support/transfers-within-network-solutions-2/
  • http://www.networksolutions.com/support/preparing-a-domain-name-for-a-transfer-out-of-network-solutions/

• http://www.bigrock.com/
  • http://www.bigrock.com/domain-registration/domain-prices
  • http://www.directi.com/products/

• http://ask.metafilter.com/184973/How-can-I-register-a-unicode-domain#2662987

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_privacy
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registrar-Lock

Search

• http://www.namemesh.com
• http://www.leandomainsearch.com/
• http://instantname.me/

• http://namemonk.com/ [1]

• http://instantdomainsearch.com/
• http://www.bustaname.com/
• https://domize.com/
• http://domaintyper.com/

• http://namevine.com/ - with social service lookup

• http://shortdomainsearch.net/

tlds, ccs, etc.

• http://dns.robtex.com/

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ch
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.name

Styles

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_domain

thoughts

acronym in url, not domain - seo?

Management

• http://www.fabulous.com/
• https://www.nameterrific.com/ [2]

• http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4847449

• http://uberdns.eu/ - uses git

Selling

• http://sedo.com/

Software

Configuration

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Resolv.conf

/etc/resolv.conf

nameserver 8.8.8.8

or such ip

BE Broadband;

• 87.194.255.154
• 87.194.255.155

Google;

• 8.8.8.8
• 8.8.4.4

• https://github.com/kvz/nsfailover

Servers, proxy, cache

• http://www.bind9.net/
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/BIND

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnsmasq
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dnsmasq

• pdnsd is a proxy DNS server with permanent caching (the cache contents are written to hard disk on exit) that is designed to cope with unreachable or down DNS servers (for example in dial-in networking). Since version 1.1.0, pdnsd supports negative caching.
  • https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pdnsd

• nscd - name service cache daemon

Tools

whois domain.name

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whois

dig domain.name

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dig_(command)

Services

• http://network-tools.com/ - good all round domain/ip tool
• http://www.who.is/ - basic whois archive records
• http://viewdns.info/

Encryption

• DNSCurve
  • http://bd.hauke-lampe.de/dnssec/how-to-install-dnscurve.html
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNSCurve

• http://dnscrypt.org/
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDNS#DNSCrypt

Distributed

• Pseudo-top-level_domain
• Telecomix DNS
  • Next Level pad

• P2P-DNS

Basic DNS Records

From DreamHost wiki;

A

Forward mapping of hostname to an IP address (66.33.201.141).

AAAA

Forward mapping of hostname to an IPv6 address.

PTR

Reverse mapping of an IP address (66.33.201.141) to a hostname (dreamhost.com).

MX

Mail eXchange records tell you which hostname to connect to for sending email.

CNAME

Say it, See Name, it points one domain name to another domain name, including mail service.

TXT

Text records, these are free form text strings, used for things like SPF.

SRV

Service records advertise a specific service a server offers. Zeroconf and XMPP Federation (Jabber and Google Apps) use SRV records in addition to PTR records.

NS

Delegates a domain or subdomain to another DNS server.