Managing Mission-Critical Domains and DNS by Jeftovic, Mark -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Managing Mission-Critical Domains and DNS Preface

Who Should Read This Book Why I Wrote This Book A Word On The “Domain Name” and “DNS Operations” Environments Today Navigating This Book Other Books In the Field Online Resources Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples Safari® Books Online How to Contact Us Acknowledgments

1. Domain Names

Why Domains Are Important Anatomy of a Domain Name

Registry Details Registrar Whois Server Expiry Date Registrant Contact Set The Admin Contact Set The Tech Contact Set Billing Contact Set DNS Details Status

Status Flags set by the Registry Status Flags set by the Registrar

1_01 Wrap Up

2. Registries, Registrars & TLD Providers

Understanding Registries

The Original Top Level Domains Generic TLDs Country Code TLDs (ccTLDs) IDN TLDs Chartered TLDs New Top Level Domains Private Namespaces Alternative Namespaces

.ONION .BIT

Registrars

The Extensible Provisioning Protocol NetSol Monopoly ICANN and Competition TLD Providers

Why Do I Need to Know All This?

3. Whois

Thin vs Thick Whois Whois Privacy

How to Tell if Whois Privacy is Enabled

Why you should always use “Whois” privacy Why you should never use “Whois” privacy Where is Whois going? Registration Data Directory Service (RDDS)

4. Intellectual Property & Legal Issues

Which Domains Should Your Organization Register?

Asserting Your Trademarks Withing the New gTLD Landscape Sunrise Landrush Premium Auction The Trademark Clearing House Typo domains

Dispute Mechanisms

Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) How the UDRP Works Transfer Dispute Resolution Procedure (TDRP) Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS)

What if Somebody is infringing on your marks or squatting on your name? What If Somebody Tries to Take Your Domains?

What Happens When Somebody Initiates a UDRP Against Your Domain

Domain Aftermarket

Account Push Registrar Transfer

Domain Aftermarket and Backorder Services

Backordering and Registrar Expiry Frontrunning Escrow Services

Other Legal Issues Chapter Summary

5. Managing Your Portfolio

Multi-Domain Architectures Organizational Best Practices

The Domain Portfolio Audit

Managing Customer Domains

Authentication Security Scaling

Transferring Domain Names

Change of Registrant Nameserver Redelegations

Redelegating DNSSEC signed domains

Registrar Transfer Registrar Transfer and Nameserver Redelegation

6. Common Pitfalls

Domain Slamming Phishing Unintentional Expiry

The Domain Expiry Cycle

Domain Scams

The “Foreign Infringer” Scam Aftermarket Scams

ICANN Suspensions

Whois Accuracy Program Incorrect or Bad Whois Reports

DNS Failures

7. Types of Nameservers

Root Nameservers Resolvers or Recursors Authoritative Nameservers

Primary Nameserver

Hidden Primaries

Secondary Nameservers

Other Nameserver Types

Forwarders

8. DNS Queries In Action

Exceptions to UDP queries. When TCP is required.

Zone Transfers Happen Over TCP Large Responses, EDNS and DDOS Mitigation (Oh My!)

Anatomy of a DNS Query: How Nameserver Selection Actually Works Summing Up

9. Types and Uses of Common Resource Records (and some not-so-common ones…)

A / Hostnames CNAME/ Alias The MX Record

A couple of special case MX-isms:

SOA / Start of Authority

Originating Nameserver Point of Contact Serial

Date based: Unix timestamp Raw count When the format of the Serial actually matters

The Refresh interval The Retry interval The Expire Interval The Minimum (a.k.a Time To Live)

Can You Just Set Your Minimum To 0 So All Your DNS Changes Will Propagate Like Greased Lightning?

NS / Nameserver TXT / Text Records

SPF Records

SRV NAPTR DNAME PTR IPv6

AAAA A6

KEY CERT DNSSEC Specific RR Types Uncommon / Obscure RR Types RP AFSDB

LOC

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