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asked Jul 30, 2021 in Cyber Security by Natalie (69.5k points)

DNS stands for _____________

(a) Data Name System

(b) Domain Name Server

(c) Domain Name System

(d) Domain’s Naming System

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answered Aug 2, 2021 by Nathan (1.4m points)
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The correct answer is (c) Domain Name System

Explanation: Domain Name System can be compared to the phonebook of the WWW. Users’ access information over the web through these human readable domain names. For example www.google.co.in gas computer-readable IP address which is 8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4 as the primary & secondary DNS addresses.

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