What is an Internet Address? What is a Domain Name?
Requested and Answered by IFAQ on Aug-12-2007 22:46 (197 reads)
An Internet address is a unique number assigned to an Internet-attached computer that allows Internet routers to route data from anywhere in the Internet to any Internet-attached machine.
A domain name is a structured alphanumeric label separated by periods that allows Internet services to be represented by English names instead of hard-to-remember numeric addresses. The Domain Name System (DNS) is a distributed database that allows the Internet system of names to grow very large while being managed by an expanding base of service providers.
Domain names can represent IP addresses, electronic mail servers (the part of your e-mail address after the "@"), and aliases.
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