Domain Name System (DNS)
Sistema de nombres de dominio (DNS)
- Date
- 1983 · confidence high
- Place
- USC Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, California, United States
- Credited to
- Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel (USC/ISI)
- People
- 👤 Jon Postel1943–1998👤 Paul Mockapetris1948–
- Field
- Communication
What it is
Distributed, hierarchical system that translates memorable names (.com, .org) into IP addresses. It allowed the internet to scale beyond a centralised hosts file.
What it led to
- Brands on the internet and the domain-name business
- Internet governance (ICANN) and disputes over digital sovereignty
- A point of control for censorship, blocking and attacks
Built on
- ARPANET1969
- TCP/IP protocol suite1974
- HOSTS.TXT file