Domain name system

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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A hierarchical database that is distributed across the Internet that allows names to be resolved into IP addresses (and vice versa) to locate services such as web and e-mail servers

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Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Network95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Sensitivity

—80%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Information Class

—85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Variants

5 surface forms

acronym: DNSDNS exfiltration
plural: Domain name systems
possessive: Domain name system's
pluralpossessive: Domain name systems'

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