Cyber Glossary
Cyberlaw dictionary is an alphabetical reference guide to technical and legal terms related to the Internet. The site you are now browsing contains over 500 definitions of words drawn from Standard Internet English including technical terms and their meanings. Our aim is to explain basic technical jargon of cyberspace to those who are not familiar with its jargon. We've given preference to terms that are widely used, like modem or bandwidth, and to those that describe new concepts specific to the Internet experience such as phishing or sexting.
DNS
(Domain Name Server or System) a computer set to translate IP addresses into domain names. Web addresses are read by the DNS numerically. For ex-ample, http://www.GrandCentralDiscounts.com might have the IP address, 164.205.775.07 but that would be hard for a user to remember, so GrandCentralDiscounts.com, an alphabetic name, is used. The DNS translates the name into its numeric equivalent. A database system that translates an IP address into a domain name. For example, a numeric IP address like 207.219.116.4 is converted into netlingo.com. The DNS is a static, hierarchical name service and it uses TCP/IP hosts, and is housed on a number of servers on the Internet. Basically, it maintains this database for figuring out and finding (or resolving) host names and IP addresses. This allows users to specify remote computers by host names rather than numerical IP addresses.
