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A domain name is an address reference on the internet which makes it easier for humans to remember and relate to, you could think of it similarly to your residential address.

Is it easier to say ‘meet you at londons O2‘ or ‘meet you at 51.5029, 0.0032‘?

So would it be easier to tell someone to ‘go to johnsblog.com‘ or ‘go to 27.223.122.250‘?

Which do you think they would remember?

So just like in the UK, the post office controls residential address generation on the internet there are registrars that control internet domain names.

With the post office, they know that your particular plot called House number, road, town,county, post code is located at a particular geographic location ( longitude * latitude ). So the mail goes to the sorting office to be sorted into geographic areas ( rounds or walks ) for redistribution.

Similarly with the internet the registrar knows that your domain name (abc.com) is located at an internet ( IP ) address reference of 27.223.122.250 which has been leased to an Internet Service Provider.

So when your computer asks the internet for something from abc.com, one of the DNS ( Domain Name System ) servers on the internet looks up the servers IP address ( location ) and tells your computer where to go get the information that it is looking for.