Domain Name Services

Domain Name Services, a service provided by Logiweb Internet Services, a website design, development and online marketing company selling a variety of services including e-commerce, hosting facilities and domain names.

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The domain name services helps users to find their way around the Internet. Every computer on the Internet has a unique address Ð just like a telephone number Ð which is a rather complicated string of numbers. It is called its "IP address" (IP stands for "Internet Protocol").

But it is hard to remember everyone's IP address. The domain name services makes it easier by allowing a familiar string of letters (the "domain name") to be used instead of the arcane IP domain name services address. So instead of typing 192.0.34.65, you can type www.icann.org. It is a "mnemonic" device that makes domain name services addresses easier to remember.

Translating the name into the IP address is called "resolving the domain name." The goal of domain name services is for any Internet user any place in the world to reach a specific website IP address by entering its domain name. Domain name services are also used for reaching e-mail addresses and for other Internet applications.

Think of domain name services as the phone system . . . when you dial a number, it rings at a particular location because there is a central numbering plan that ensures that each telephone number is unique. The domain name services works in a similar way. If telephone numbers or domain names were not globally unique, phone calls or e-mail intended for one person might go to someone else with the same number or domain name. Without uniqueness, domain name services would be unpredictable and therefore unreliable.

Ensuring predictable results from any place on the Internet is called "universal resolvability." It is a critical design feature of the domain name services, one that makes the Internet the helpful, global resource that it is today. Without it, domain name services might map to different domain name services Internet locations under different circumstances, which would only cause confusion.

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If at any point domain name services must make a choice between two identical domain names with different IP addresses, the domain name services would not function. It would not know how to resolve the domain name. When a domain name services computer queries another computer and asks, "are you the intended recipient of this message?", "yes" and "no" are acceptable answers, but "maybe" is not.

In domain name services Ð such as icann.org Ð the .org part is known as a Top Level Domain, or TLD. So-called "TLD registry" organizations house online databases that contain information about the domain name services in that TLD. The .org registry database, for example, contains the domain name services t whereabouts Ð or IP address Ð of icann.org. So in trying to find the domain name services address of icann.org your computer must first find the .org registry database.

At the heart of the domain name services are 13 special computers, called root servers. They are coordinated by ICANN and are distributed around the world. All 13 contain the same vital information Ð this is to spread the workload and back each other up.

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