DNS Explained | Domain Names to IP Addresses

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Every website on the Internet is hosted on a server that has an IP address. Humans are not good at remembering long numbers. So the internet uses DNS, also called the Domain Name System. DNS converts human-readable names into machine-friendly IP addresses. When you type google.com or youtube.com , DNS finds the correct IP address and sends it back to your device. Without DNS, the internet would…

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