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The domain name system

We've seen that domains are groups of related computers. Domains have names. Individual hosts have unique, fully qualified domain names. The top level domains seldom change, but people are constantly registering new second-level domains. Domain name servers keep track of the correspondence between IP addresses and the corresponding domain names. Responsibility for maintain ing the lists of names and addresses is decentralized.... Show More

Keywords:: domain, host, domain name, IP address, domain registrar

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Academic Support Services / Library and Information Services / Information and Communication Technology Literacy / Information Literacy Standards

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Material Type:: Tutorial
Date Added to MERLOT:: July 22, 2011
Date Modified in MERLOT:: September 4, 2021
Author:: Larry Press, CSUDH
Submitter:: Larry Press

Primary Audience:: High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division
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Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States