How the Internet Works

Domain Name

The human-readable name for a website, like google.

Definition

The human-readable name for a website, like google.com or wikipedia.org. It's a friendly alias for a numeric IP address that computers actually use to find each other.

Example

Instead of typing 142.250.80.46, you type google.com — the domain name system translates one into the other.

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