BH - Day 3 Review

Rents out space on their

servers so they can have a reliable, professionally maintained place for their website.

• Web hosting

• Registrar

• Server

• DNS

Phone book of the internet

• DNS

• Domain name

• Server

Points to the server with the Zone File

• Server Name

• Name Servers

• DNS records

Stored on a name server and provides information about one or more domain names

• Zone file

• Name Server

• Domain

Directs the user to the correct IP address for that

domain and subdomain

• MX Record

• TXT Record

• A record

Maps the domain to the authorized mail servers

for that domain

• A record

• cName

• MX record

Points a domain / subdomain to another domain / subdomain

• A record

• cName

• TXT Record

Manufacturer of TLD

• Registry

• Registrar

• Registrant

• Registrar

Registers the domain name to the registry

• Registrant

• Reseller

• Registrar

• Registry

Person or organization registering the domain name

• Reseller

• Registrar

• Registry

• Registrant