Each time you open a browser and type in a web address, there’s a hidden hand sending all the information to your PC to render the page as it should. Those middle-men of your newly loaded webpage are the internet’s DNS servers.
But what is a DNS server exactly? To help explain, we’ll walk you through the process of retrieving a web page and cover the many types of DNS servers residing between you and your favorite sites and services. We’ll also show you how to change DNS settings to get the fastest, safest web browsing experience possible.
What is DNS?
DNS is short for Domain Name System. Created in 1983 at the University of Wisconsin, it’s an expanding global directory for the Internet that replaces numeric addresses with alphabetic addresses. Rather than “dial” a string of numbers in a browser to contact Google, just type its name instead. Alphabetic addresses are simply easier to remember, even more so given there are more than 1.7 billion websites on the Internet today.
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