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Why were domain names created
Posted by David Hall on 08 January 2009 01:24 PM
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Websites are located (or hosted) in computer servers. The location of a website in a server is really specified by a series of numbers, called the IP address (for example: 63.241.136.31). However, this would be too hard to remember; in fact, it reminds us a little bit of phone numbers: wouldn't it be easier to just dial U-N-C-L-E J-O-E instead of having to remember a ten digit phone number? The creators of the Internet took this into account, and domain names were created. domain names act like an address forwarding service that directs the Internet user to the server, and then looks for the IP address that corresponds to the domain name (geeks like to say: "the domain name resolves to its IP address"). | |
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