DNS

General

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

• RFC7719 - DNS Terminology

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

• https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/61467/if-icann-only-charges-0-18-per-domain-name-why-am-i-paying-10 [1]

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/

Records

• 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
• xip.io - wildcard DNS for everyone

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8336025

Root sevrers

• http://root-servers.org/

Registrars

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

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

Comparison

• http://www.domparison.com
• http://www.dotology.co.uk
• http://tld-list.com/ [2]
• https://www.domcomp.com/

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7839186 - list of good registrars

Good words

• https://www.gandi.net

• https://porkbun.com/products/details#whats-included

• 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/

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

• https://www.domainnameshop.com/

• https://www.namecheap.com - cheap. nameserver included.

• https://internetbs.net - cheaper. nameserver not included.

• http://www.domains.coop/ - .coop

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

• Git-based DNS Hosting - Steve Kemp

to avoid

• http://www.1and1.co.uk/ - hmm, bibg corp, ugly ui
  • http://www.1and1.co.uk/details-domain-prices?__lf=Order&linkOrigin=Instant&linkId=ct.btn.domainPrices
  • reseller for http://registrar.schlund.info/

• http://123reg.co.uk - transfer out charges
  • https://www.123-reg.co.uk/domain-names/cheap-domain-names.shtml
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webfusion
  • hidden transfer fees still?

• 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 [3]

Do NOT use GoDaddy. Google it +

• http://skepchick.org/2014/04/godaddy-released-my-personal-information-to-a-spammer-troll/

Name server

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

• https://freedns.afraid.org/zc.php?from=L3JlZGlyZWN0Lw==

Search

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

• http://namemonk.com/ [4]

• 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/ [5]

• https://confirm.io/ [6]

• https://domai.nr

TLDs

• http://dns.robtex.com/

• https://www.nic.ch/reg/index/view.html?lid=en
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ch

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.name

• https://gigaom.com/2014/06/30/the-dark-side-of-io-how-the-u-k-is-making-web-domain-profits-from-a-shady-cold-war-land-deal/ [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8587379

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/ [7]

• 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

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

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

= BIND

• http://www.bind9.net/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIND

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/BIND

• http://www.isc.org/downloads/BIND/

YADIFA

• http://www.yadifa.eu/ YADIFA® is designed specifically for the efficient management of large Internet zones and uses dynamic updates to instantly change domain name records. It is equally optimised to handle multiple Internet zones. Our benchmark tests show how we measure up to the competition.

PowerDNS

• https://www.powerdns.com/

Unbound

• Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.

Dnsmasq

• Dnsmasq provides network infrastructure for small networks: DNS, DHCP, router advertisement and network boot. It is designed to be lightweight and have a small footprint, suitable for resource constrained routers and firewalls. It has also been widely used for tethering on smartphones and portable hotspots, and to support virtual networking in virtualisation frameworks. Supported platforms include Linux (with glibc and uclibc), Android, *BSD, and Mac OS X. Dnsmasq is included in most Linux distributions and the ports systems of FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. Dnsmasq provides full IPv6 support.

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

pdnsd

• 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

• 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

• 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

• http://www.intodns.com/

dig

dig any domain.name
  show all records for domain

• 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/

Security

TSIG

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSIG - Transaction SIGnature, protocol defined in RFC 2845. It is used primarily by the Domain Name System (DNS) to provide a means of authenticating updates to a DNS database. It is most commonly used to update Dynamic DNS or a secondary/slave DNS server. TSIG uses shared secret keys and one-way hashing to provide a cryptographically secure means of authenticating each endpoint of a connection as being allowed to make or respond to a DNS update.

DNSBL

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNSBL

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

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

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8894902

DNSCurve

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

• http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/91725/dnscrypt-vs-dnscurve

DNSCrypt

Client

• DNSCrypt is a protocol that authenticates communications between a DNS client and a DNS resolver. It prevents DNS spoofing. It uses cryptographic signatures to verify that responses originate from the chosen DNS resolver and haven't been tampered with.
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDNS#DNSCrypt
  • https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DNSCrypt
  • https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/dnscrypt-proxy/ - includes systemd service file to enable exec on start

sudo dnscrypt-proxy -R dnscrypt.eu-dk --local-address=127.0.0.1:40

Using dnsmasq listening on port 40 to cache requests.

or

systemctl edit dnscrypt-proxy.socket

Note: The ListenStream and ListenDatagram options need to be cleared with empty assignment before overriding, otherwise the new address would be added to the list of sockets.

[Socket]
ListenStream=
ListenDatagram=
ListenStream=127.0.0.1:40
ListenDatagram=127.0.0.1:40

Server

• https://github.com/Cofyc/dnscrypt-wrapper - A server-side dnscrypt proxy which helps to add dnscrypt support to any name resolver.

Resolvers

• https://github.com/jedisct1/dnscrypt-proxy/blob/master/dnscrypt-resolvers.csv - Current list of free DNSCrypt-enabled resolvers

• DNSCrypt.eu does not censor or change DNS lookups, nor log your traffic through the DNSCrypt service in a way that can identify you.
  • 176.56.237.171 and 77.66.84.233

Testing

• https://dnsleaktest.com - 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/ [8]
  • https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain

Dynamic

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

• http://www.noip.com/free/

• https://onetimedns.net/

• http://www.duckdns.org/

Software

• http://www.inatech.eu/inadyn/

Distributed

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

• P2P-DNS

• DJDNS

• http://opennamesystem.org/ [9]

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.