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2. Domain Name System - Wikipedia

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   e. The Domain Name System ( DNS) is a hierarchical and distributed name service that provides a naming system for computers, services, and other resources on the Internet or other Internet Protocol (IP) networks. It associates various information with domain names (identification strings) assigned to each of the associated entities.

3. Name server - Wikipedia

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   A name server is a computer application that implements a network service for providing responses to queries against a directory service. It translates an often humanly meaningful, text-based identifier to a system-internal, often numeric identification or addressing component. This service is performed by the server in response to a service ...

4. Domain name - Wikipedia

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   In general, a domain name identifies a network domain or an Internet Protocol (IP) resource, such as a personal computer used to access the Internet, or a server computer. Domain names are formed by the rules and procedures of the Domain Name System (DNS). Any name registered in the DNS is a domain name.

5. Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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   Yahoo! ( / ˈjɑːhuː /, styled yahoo! in its logo) [ 4][ 5] is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Management and 10% by Verizon Communications . It provides a web portal, search engine ...

6. Top-level domain - Wikipedia

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   A top-level domain ( TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet after the root domain. [ 9] The top-level domain names are installed in the root zone of the name space. For all domains in lower levels, it is the last part of the domain name, that is, the last non-empty label of a fully ...

7. Domain Name System blocklist - Wikipedia

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   A Domain Name System blocklist, Domain Name System-based blackhole list, Domain Name System blacklist ( DNSBL) or real-time blackhole list ( RBL) is a service for operation of mail servers to perform a check via a Domain Name System (DNS) query whether a sending host's IP address is blacklisted for email spam. [ 1]

8. History of Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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   When Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web was renamed to Yahoo! in 1994, Yang and Filo said that "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" was a suitable backronym for this name, but they insisted they had selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."

9. Fully qualified domain name - Wikipedia

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   Fully qualified domain name. A fully qualified domain name ( FQDN ), sometimes also referred to as an absolute domain name, [ 1] is a domain name that specifies its exact location in the tree hierarchy of the Domain Name System (DNS). It specifies all domain levels, including the top-level domain and the root zone. [ 2]