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The Domain Name System (DNS) is the guidebook for the internet. Computers communicating on the internet deal with Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, but humans are better at remembering alphabetic domain names. DNS is the magic that allows a browser (or another internet-connected device) to resolve one to the other.