DNS
acronymnetworking
Stands for: Domain Name System
The system that translates human-readable names like example.com into IP addresses.
The Domain Name System is the internet's phone book, a distributed, hierarchical lookup queried billions of times a second. Because so much depends on it, its speed (via anycast and caching) and its security (encrypted variants) are constant areas of work.
Also known as: dns, domain name system, name resolution