DNS, the database that assigns addresses for computers connected to the Internet.

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The Internet's DNS, the key to readable Net addresses, has long been administered by a single government contractor, Network Solutions Inc. (NSI).

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English was entrenched as the founding language of the Internet by the Domain Names System (DNS) which accommodates hundreds of millions of web addresses around the globe.

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The Domain Name System (DNS) is the program for computers to understand website addresses such as Google.com, turn them into IP address and get the relevant content for the website.

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In 2005 Ulevitch realized that a specialized DNS service employing hundreds of servers around the world could store ip addresses physically closer to users and make finding Web addresses faster and more reliable.

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To avoid incorrect IP addresses in those foreign servers, the program even checks domains with three DNS servers and grabs whichever IP address has at least two agreeing answers.

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