{"id":266,"date":"2020-09-14T10:59:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T09:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kbnco.names.dev.pdunsford.localdev\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=266"},"modified":"2021-01-29T13:00:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T13:00:52","slug":"what-is-dns-and-what-are-nameservers","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/articles\/what-is-dns-and-what-are-nameservers\/","title":{"rendered":"What is DNS? and what are Nameservers?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DNS or Domain Name System, put simply is the method used to allow all users to browse the web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-nco-info-block\"><p class=\"nco-info-block-content\"><strong>Info:<\/strong> For a more in depth explanation we need to understand where a website is hosted.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A website is hosted on a computer that is set up to serve web pages, these are known as&nbsp;<strong>servers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each server has a unique (IP) address that is normally in the form of a set of numbers, for example&nbsp;<strong>85.233.160.149<\/strong>&nbsp;so it can be found over the internet by your computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A list of numbers may be easy for a computer to understand and remember it is not very user friendly for us, so we use&nbsp;<strong>Domain Names<\/strong>&nbsp;to find websites instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What DNS does is link the Domain to the address so we don&#8217;t have to deal with the numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So in effect the DNS is like a phone book for the internet, allowing your computer to find the number for a website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nameservers<\/strong>&nbsp;are simply a set of servers (computers) that contain the DNS information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DNS is stored, on Nameservers, in what is known as a&nbsp;<strong>zone file<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example here is a simplified DNS zone record for names.co.uk:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><strong>Domain name -> IP Address<\/strong>\nnames.co.uk -> 85.233.160.210<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>As you can see&nbsp;<strong>names.co.uk<\/strong>&nbsp;is on the number&nbsp;<strong>85.233.160.210<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So when searching for names.co.uk the computer knows to go to <strong>85.233.160.210<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNS or Domain Name System, put simply is the method used to allow all users to browse the web. A website is hosted on a computer that is set up to serve web pages, these are known as&nbsp;servers. Each server has a unique (IP) address that is normally in the form of a set of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[15],"ht-kb-tag":[14,16],"class_list":["post-266","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-domains","ht_kb_tag-dns","ht_kb_tag-domains"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What is DNS? and what are Nameservers? - Support Centre - Websites MadeSimple\u2122<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What is DNS? and what are Nameservers? - Support Centre - Websites MadeSimple\u2122\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"DNS or Domain Name System, put simply is the method used to allow all users to browse the web. A website is hosted on a computer that is set up to serve web pages, these are known as&nbsp;servers. Each server has a unique (IP) address that is normally in the form of a set of [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/articles\/what-is-dns-and-what-are-nameservers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Support Centre - Websites MadeSimple\u2122\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-01-29T13:00:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/articles\/what-is-dns-and-what-are-nameservers\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/articles\/what-is-dns-and-what-are-nameservers\/\",\"name\":\"What is DNS? and what are Nameservers? - Support Centre - Websites MadeSimple\u2122\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-14T09:59:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-01-29T13:00:52+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/articles\/what-is-dns-and-what-are-nameservers\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/articles\/what-is-dns-and-what-are-nameservers\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/articles\/what-is-dns-and-what-are-nameservers\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"What is DNS? and what are Nameservers?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/\",\"name\":\"Support Centre - Websites MadeSimple\u2122\",\"description\":\"Websites MadeSimple\u2122 Support Centre\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"What is DNS? and what are Nameservers? - Support Centre - Websites MadeSimple\u2122","robots":{"index":"noindex","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"What is DNS? and what are Nameservers? - Support Centre - Websites MadeSimple\u2122","og_description":"DNS or Domain Name System, put simply is the method used to allow all users to browse the web. A website is hosted on a computer that is set up to serve web pages, these are known as&nbsp;servers. Each server has a unique (IP) address that is normally in the form of a set of [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/articles\/what-is-dns-and-what-are-nameservers\/","og_site_name":"Support Centre - Websites MadeSimple\u2122","article_modified_time":"2021-01-29T13:00:52+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Estimated reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/articles\/what-is-dns-and-what-are-nameservers\/","url":"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/articles\/what-is-dns-and-what-are-nameservers\/","name":"What is DNS? and what are Nameservers? - Support Centre - Websites MadeSimple\u2122","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/#website"},"datePublished":"2020-09-14T09:59:24+00:00","dateModified":"2021-01-29T13:00:52+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/articles\/what-is-dns-and-what-are-nameservers\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/articles\/what-is-dns-and-what-are-nameservers\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/articles\/what-is-dns-and-what-are-nameservers\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"What is DNS? and what are Nameservers?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/","name":"Support Centre - Websites MadeSimple\u2122","description":"Websites MadeSimple\u2122 Support Centre","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3418,"href":"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/266\/revisions\/3418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websites-madesimple.co.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}