What is DNS Domain Name Servers?
What is DNS Domain Name Servers? They are actually working like a phone book. They’re systems that responsible for translating many domain names into Internet Protocol Addresses (IP Addresses).
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1. Introduction
IP Addresses were invented for the Internet worldwide in 1984. This is very necessary because computers or machines don’t understand the domain names or string, they only know the IP Addresses, although domain names are very easy for people to remember.
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2. How does the DNS work? (What is DNS?)
Each IP Address has 4 groups of a number divided by dots, for example, 192.168.0.1. And each will be classified into 5 classes called A, B, C, D, E. If you open the command line and ping my site eCoupon.io, you will see the IP Address is 108.61.216.145, it is due to DNS translation.
Each Domain name services provider will operate and maintain their own DNS systems. We also have INTERNIC (Internet Network Information Center), and they will have responsibility for managing all domain names and DNS servers. Each DNS have capacities to query other DNS Servers when they have requested from another.
3. How to use DNS Domain Name Servers?
You should choose DNS based on your website requirements. Each will have the difference update time, response time, time to live (TTL) from client to server. So that, if your website is small, you don’t need to update frequently and immediately. However, if you have a large business or an ecommerce website, you will need to do that.
Nowadays, many people use 3rd DNS services providers such as CloudFlare, FreeDNS, …for their DNS translating
4. Some 3rd DNS services I would recommend to you below
Currently, you can easily buy your own domain names at a very cheap price when using coupon codes from many large domain name registrars such as Godaddy, Domain.com, Namecheap, Dotster, NameSilo
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Thank you! Finally!
Finally I could get a decent article where i could understand what are the DNS and how to use them.
I’m really grateful you added this article, thank you
You’re welcome!