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Domain Name

By: Zheng Wang
In: The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Internet
Edited by: Barney Warf
Subject:Computer-Mediated Communication

The Internet has grown into an interconnected world of billions of hosts, which provision various resources and services. A domain name is a string [Page 254]to uniquely identify a resource or a service on the Internet. These names are registered at the global distributed database known as the Domain Name System (DNS). This entry examines the purpose of domain names, the DNS and its history, the organization of domain name space, as well as several related issues, including domain name resolution, security, and internationalization.

Purpose of Domain Names

As the substrate of the Internet, TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) stacks consist of four layers, among which the Internet layer defines IP addresses to locate any host on the Internet. With the destination IP address, any Internet layer ...

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  Wang, Z. (2018). Domain name. In B. Warf (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of the internet (pp. 254-264). Thousand Oaks,, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: 10.4135/9781473960367.n79
  
  Wang, Zheng. "Domain Name." In The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Internet, edited by Barney Warf, 254-264. Thousand Oaks,, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2018. doi: 10.4135/9781473960367.n79.
  
  Wang, Z 2018, 'Domain name', in Warf, B (ed.), The sage encyclopedia of the internet, SAGE Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks,, CA, pp. 254-264, viewed 25 October 2020, doi: 10.4135/9781473960367.n79.
  
  Wang, Zheng. "Domain Name." The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Internet. Ed. Barney Warf. Thousand Oaks,: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2018. 254-264. SAGE Knowledge. Web. 25 Oct. 2020, doi: 10.4135/9781473960367.n79.
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