The Importance of DNS, The Internet’s Domain Name System

By EDW Lynch on December 16, 2011

“The Importance of DNS” is a short educational animation about the history and importance of the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS), the system responsible for translating numerical IP addresses into human-friendly domain names like laughingsquid.com. The video was made by DNS Made Easy.

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