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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. CompuServe - Wikipedia

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   Products. online services, ISP. Parent. Yahoo! Inc. Website. www .compuserve .com. CompuServe ( CompuServe Information Service, also known by its initialism CIS or later CSi) was an American online service, the first major commercial one in the world. It opened in 1969 as a timesharing and remote access service marketed to corporations.

5. 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.

6. 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."

7. 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 ...

8. Uniform Resource Identifier - Wikipedia

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   A Uniform Resource Identifier ( URI ), formerly Universal Resource Identifier, is a unique sequence of characters that identifies an abstract or physical resource, [ 1] such as resources on a webpage, mail address, phone number, [ 2] books, real-world objects such as people and places, concepts. [ 3] URIs are used to identify anything described ...

9. Computer network - Wikipedia

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   The nodes of a computer network can include personal computers, servers, networking hardware, or other specialized or general-purpose hosts. They are identified by network addresses and may have hostnames. Hostnames serve as memorable labels for the nodes and are rarely changed after initial assignment.