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domains and nameservers?

April 26, 2017domains nameservers

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domains and nameservers?

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• What is the difference between DENIC eG and an Internet Service Provider? • I am an Internet provider. What do I have to do to in order to become a member of DENIC eG and register domains for my customers? • Where can I find information about the Internet and statistics about the number of Internet users, hosts, domains etc.? Why do I need a domain name and an IP address in the Internet? All computers in the Internet (also called hosts) are identified by an unambigous number, the so-called IP address. It has the form xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, where xxx is a placeholder for numbers between 0 and 255. A typical IP address would be 190.136.66.12. If a host wants to communicate with another host over the Internet, then it sends “Internet packets”, which contain an IP number as “address”. Because users can remember names better than numbers, the domain name system was introduced. Each domain name corresponds to one IP address. This way the hosts can be accessed via IP addresses and domain names. D