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Informational guides on technologies used by website developers and web clients. What does DNS mean, what is a domain name, how do SSL certificates work etc.

What is DNS?
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What is DNS?

DNS (Domain Name System) is the glue that holds together the World Wide Web (WWW). It translates human readable and rememberable domain names entered in web browsers and used in other internet connected devices into a set of digits (an IP address) representing the location on the network (usually the internet) that needs to be visited in order to satisfy the request.