December 1, 2003
IEE Review: What's In a Name
Paul Mockapetris, inventor of the Internet's Domain Name System, talks to the IEE Review about why domain names are booming on the Net.
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November 27, 2003
Guardian Unlimited: Identify and conquer
The domain name system that underpins the internet could soon reach out to telephones and objects.
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November 24, 2003
CRN: Nominum Gets Benefit Of DNS Experience
After restructuring its business model, Nominum is about to launch in the United States a channel program led by Miguel Nhuch, who is credited with creating the channel program for WebLogic prior to its acquisition by BEA Systems.
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October 27, 2003
Computerworld: DNS servers prove resilient
In the year since last October's high-profile attacks on the Internet's root Domain Name System servers, improvements in load distribution and processing capacity have made the Internet's core addressing system more resilient.
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October 27, 2003
Network World: 'Net security gets root-level boost
A year after surviving a massive distributed denial-of-service attack, the Internet's root servers are better fortified against hacker activity, thanks to behind-the-scenes deployment of a routing technique known as Anycast, experts say.
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October 24, 2003
Computer World: Q&A: DNS inventor Paul Mockapetris on Internet security
Paul Mockapetris invented the Internet's core Domain Name System (DNS), which is a highly distributed hierarchical database that translates Web names into Internet Protocol addresses, and vice versa. Without it, the Internet as it's structured today wouldn't work. In an interview this week with Computerworld, he talked about the state of the DNS a year after the first distributed denial-of-service attack on the system.
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October 20, 2003
WERBLOG: The coming identifier boom
ITU Telecom 2003: "Mockapetris has coined his own new 'Mockapetris Law' that foresees the doubling of electronic identifiers every 12 months.
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October 17, 2003
ITU Telecom World 03 On-line News: Internet DNS Set for Explosive Growth
If the Internet is the ultimate postal service, the Domain Name System (DNS) is its frantic sorting office, expediting delivery of billions of messages each day by deftly matching host names to IP addresses. Twenty years after the Net’s inception, the DNS is now handling a staggering 100 million individual domains -- a figure that will soon be just the tip of the iceberg, according to DNS inventor Paul Mockapetris.
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October 1, 2003
Communications News Guest Column: DNS growth has just begun
In 2003, we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Internet’s deployment and the creation of the domain name system (DNS). The commonly held view is that the DNS is merely a mechanism for translating host names to IP addresses. This view is too limited today, however, and will be completely wrong tomorrow.
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August 7, 2003
ZDNet: DNS inventor says cure to net identity problems is right under our nose
Today, Mockapetris is the chairman and chief scientist at Nominum, a solution provider offering industrial strength DNS and DHCP management solutions. But, when he's not running Nominum, he's thinking about how to combat what he says is the Internet's number one growth industry and the source of ills: identity theft. "Most of our problems," says Mockapetris, "whether spam or hactivism, like what happened to Al-Jazeera or 10 Downing Street, can be traced back to identity theft."
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July 28, 2003
Network World Fusion: DNS is busting out all over
After 20 years as one of the cornerstones of the Internet, DNS is being tapped to revolutionize corporate supply chains, IP telephony, real-time communications and security.
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July 14, 2003
TechTarget: Domain name system creator laments legal limitations
The domain name system (DNS) is a remarkably resilient technology. Even after 20 years, this basic method by which Internet domains are located and translated into Internet Protocol (IP) addresses remains relevant.
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June 26, 2003
Web Host News: Nominum Continues DNS Development
According to the inventor of the domain name system, the next generation of DNS development will focus upon the growth of IP computing and future applications.
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June 23, 2003
Sify News: Domain Name System turns 20
Exactly 20 years ago, two computer scientists Jon Postel and Paul Mockapetris at the University of Southern California invented a key component that was to become the backbone of the Internet. Reading this article has been made possible mainly due to their pioneering work.
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June 12, 2003
Computerworld: Defending your DNS: Best practices for reliable DNS and DHCP
Well-publicized attacks against Domain Name System (DNS) root servers and top-level domains highlight the vulnerability of the DNS infrastructure. Many CIOs are looking for ways to ensure secure, reliable network services.
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May 5, 2003
Network World: Reporter's Notebook
Mockapetris says the real meaning of being the "Father of DNS" is that his young children now point to ads on the sides of buses and say "Look Dad, .com!"
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April 25, 2003
Silicon Valley Biz Ink: You may not know his name, but you use Paul Mockapetris' technology every time you visit a Web site
If Paul Mockapetris hadn't invented the domain name system 20 years ago, we'd all be typing 216.74.142.10 into our Web browsers rather than www.mlb.com to check scores on Major League Baseball's Web site.
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April 11, 2003
The Register: DNS inventor calls for security overhaul
Web site impersonation could become as great a risk as ID theft warns Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of DNS and Chief Scientist of Nominum.
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April 1, 2003
EETimes: DNS pioneer warns of Internet security
"The majority of the work [on DNS] to be done still lies ahead of us," said Paul V. Mockapetris, Inventor of DNS and Chief Scientist at Nominum in this article.
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March 31, 2003
ISI News: ISI Names Dr. Paul Mockapetris Visiting Scholar
Internet pioneer Paul Mockapetris, chief scientist of IP address infrastructure software provider Nominum, has been appointed Visiting Scholar by the Postel Center for Experimental Networking (PCEN).
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March 28, 2003
CNet: Al-Jazeera struggles against continued attacks
Paul Mockapetris, Inventor of DNS & Chief Scientist for Nominum, explains the need to identify the source of the attack through the service provider in this article written by Rob Lemos.
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March 24, 2003
Computerworld: DNS expert: More sophisticated Internet attacks coming
Paul Mockapetris, Inventor of DNS and Nominum Chief Scientist, predicts future attacks on an irresistible target, part of the internet core - DNS.
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March 1, 2003
Business Communications Review: The Crisis of Complexity
Ken Gullicksen, Morgenthaler Ventures partner, explains how “the piecemeal proliferation of Web applications, datacenters and management tools has created chaos. While we all enjoy the information access benefits of the
Internet and intranets, IT administrators are entangled in infrastructure.”
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February 21, 2003
Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal: Nominum adds $10 million in funding
Software maker Nominum Inc. of Redwood City says it's gotten $10 million in a third round of funding. The additional money brings to $26 million the amount of venture capital the company has attracted.
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January 8, 2003
CNET: Perspective: Defending the DNS
Paul Mockapetris, Nominum Chairman and Chief Scientist, discusses the importance of defending the DNS.
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