ICANN Acronyms and Terms – ICANN

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Domain Name System abuseDNS abuse
Any malicious activity aimed at disrupting the DNS infrastructure or causing the DNS to operate in an unintended manner. Abusive activities include corrupting DNS zone data, gaining administrative control of a name server, and flooding the DNS with thousands of messages to degrade name-resolution services.
Related Terms
Domain Name System resource exhaustion attack
Domain Name System traffic amplification attack
Domain Name System covert channel attack
Domain Abuse Activity Reporting System
cache poisoning attack
Domain Name System misuse