Understanding DNS (opens in new tab)

Domain Name System(DNS) is often called the phone book of the internet, this is because like a phone book, which is an equivalent of your contacts on your mobile phone. The Domain Name System (DNS) simply put is the contact list of the internet, it is the phone book of the internet as a human we remember words (like example.com), but computers and routers communicate using numerical IP addresses (like 192.0.2.1 or 2600::1). DNS is the globally distributed database that translates the human-re...