Simply put, Domain Name System (DNS) is the phone book of the internet. It’s the system that converts website domain names (hostnames) into numerical values (IP address) so they can be found and loaded into your web browser.
This happens because machines don’t understand site names like we do. A website written as pcmag.com is a way for us, as humans, to remember web pages while the servers they’re stored on refer to them as numbers.
DNS works in the background, and it’s not something the average internet user will need to worry about much. But without it, your browser wouldn’t know where to point your web page request, and finding the information you need would be a much more arduous process.
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