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description: "Discussion on \"DNS for Beginners: How the Internet Knows Where Your Website Lives 🌍\". Let’s begin with a simple but powerful question:\n\nWhen you type google.com in your browser, how does the browser know where Google actually lives?\n\nYour browser does not understand names like:\n\ngoogle.com\n\namazon.in\n\nyoutube.com\n\n\nComputers only unde..."
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# [DNS for Beginners: How the Internet Knows Where Your Website Lives 🌍](https://navishu.hashnode.dev/dns-for-beginners-how-the-internet-knows-where-your-website-lives?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Let’s begin with a simple but powerful question: When you type google.com in your browser, how does the browser know where Google actually lives? Your browser does not understand names like: google.com amazon.in youtube.com Computers only unde...

Jan 31 · 4 min read · navishu.hashnode.dev  
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