Domain name system
nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026
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
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
- acronym
- DNSDNS exfiltration
- plural
- Domain name systems
- possessive
- Domain name system's
- pluralpossessive
- Domain name systems'