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

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_server

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-robin_DNS

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/

• Calculating The 5,000 Most Frequently Used Domain Name Prefixes and Suffixes

• http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2013/12/17/getting-creative-domain-name-registration

Domains

• http://www.icann.org/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN

• http://www.domainholdings.com/recent-sales/100-oldest-domain-names/

Registrars

Do NOT use GoDaddy. Google it.

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

• http://www.domparison.com - price comparison
• http://www.dotology.co.uk - free and impartial 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 - avoid
  • 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://inessential.com/2014/01/21/network_solutions_auto-enroll_1_850 [1]

• 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/ [2]

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

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

• http://shortdomainsearch.net/

• http://www.dictionarydomains.co/ [3]

TLDs

• 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/ [4]

• 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://www.isc.org/downloads/BIND/
• http://www.yadifa.eu/
• https://www.powerdns.com/

• http://www.unbound.net/

• 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

• http://mayakron.altervista.org/wikibase/show.php?id=AcrylicHome - windows

• nscd - name service cache daemon

Tools

whois domain.name

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whois

• http://linux.die.net/man/1/nslookup
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nslookup

dig domain.name

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

• DNSYO is a little tool I built to help me keep track of DNS propagation. In short, it's nslookup, if nslookup queried over 1500 servers and collated their results.

• https://github.com/jedisct1/massresolver

Services

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

Security

DNSSEC

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System_Security_Extensions

• http://www.icann.org/en/about/learning/factsheets/dnssec-qaa-09oct08-en.htm
• http://www.dnssec-deployment.org/
• http://www.dnssec-tools.org/

• https://wiki.debian.org/DNSSEC
• http://pir.org/get/faq/dnssec
• https://www.opendnssec.org/about/
• http://www.cisco.com/web/about/security/intelligence/dnssec.html
• http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/resources/step-by-step-how-to-use-a-dnssec-ds-record-to-link-a-registar-to-a-dns-hosting-provider/
• http://www.dnsops.gov/dnssec-perform.html

• http://www.root-dnssec.org/

still CAs, registrars and TLDs

DNSCurve

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

• http://dnscrypt.org/
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDNS#DNSCrypt
  • https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/dnscrypt-proxy/ - includes systemd service file to enable exec on start

• http://www.opendns.com/welcome/ - test dns connection

DANE

• Wikipedia:DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) is a proposed protocol to allow X.509 certificates (commonly used for Transport Layer Security) to be bound to DNS names using Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC).
• http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/resources/dane/

Convergence

• http://convergence.io/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence_(SSL)

• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/08/google_chrome_rejects_convergence/

DNSNMC

• http://okturtles.com/ [5]

Dynamic

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_DNS

• http://www.noip.com/free/

• https://onetimedns.net/

Distributed

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

• P2P-DNS

• DJDNS

GNS

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhIybhAQ8lY - gnu

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.