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Domain Name Systems

ALSO CALLED: DNS
DEFINITION: A domain name locates an organization or other entity on the Internet. For example, the domain name
www.totalbaseball.com
locates an Internet address for "totalbaseball.com" at Internet point 199.0.0.2 and a particular host server named "www". The "com" part of the  … 
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DOMAIN NAME SYSTEMS DEFINITION (continued): …  domain name reflects the purpose of the organization or entity (in this example, "commercial") and is called the top-level domain name. The "totalbaseball" part of the domain name defines the organization or entity and together with the top-level is called the second-level domain name. The second-level domain name maps to and can be thought of as the "readable" version of the Internet address.

A third level can be defined to identify a particular host server at the … 
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