Domain Name Service

 

Definition: In a Web address (URL), the domain name is the portion just after “http://”. For example, in “http://www.ucdavis.edu/main/index.html”, the domain name is “www.ucdavis.edu”. But having these addresses as text is just a convenience. Computers see everything as numbers, including address information (see IP address). The Domain Name Service is simply a two-way translation so that computers can understand the text-based addresses we use, and so that we don’t have to memorize long strings of numbers.


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