ameservers are in many heck is an IP address?". IP
ways like a telephone address stands for Internet
directory. When you need to Protocol address. It is a unique
know someone's address or phone address given to each individual
number, the first thing you do is website and computer that is
pick up a telephone directory (or linked to the internet. It is in
use the internet or by phone, the form of xx.xx.xxx.xxx or
these days). When you find the similar, where the x’s are a
name of the person in the book, number. So it is the internet
you're presented with their equivalent of a physical address.
address and phone number (unless Nameservers will direct you to
they're ex-directory). the IP address, and, ultimately,
Nameservers are the telephone the website, just like a phone
books of the internet. book.
When you need to get to a There are many nameservers on the
website, and you have the domain internet, just as there are many
name - ie. Nunkey.com, the first phone books and directories out
thing you do is enter the name there. They are held by web
into your browser - Internet hosting companies. Hosting
Explorer, Mozilla, etc. What companies are akin to real estate
people don't realize is that a agents who let or sell their
domain name is not the actual properties - in the cyber world.
address of the website. The same Host companies use their own
as someone's name isn't their servers, and in essence, hold the
address. A website's address is address information for any
called an IP address. The domain name hosted with them.
nameserver links the two.
When you enter a domain name into
I can see you asking "what the your browser, you are asking the
'phone company' (web host) to will need to add these to any
look into their 'phone book' domains you own. By doing this,
(nameservers) and tell you the you effectively are in control -
(IP) address of that site, so you albeit automated - of the
can be redirected there. Upon redirection of domain name-to-web
registration, they usually take a site queries. With nameservers, a
day or two to be set up, and can lot is done behind the scenes.
be changed at anytime. So, unfortunately, people never
really know how they work. I hope
You may decide to own your own this clears it up for you!
server, in which case you will be
given your own nameservers. You
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