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Version 2.1 by Drunk Monkey on 2022-06-16 09:50

Registrar

Domain Name Registrars are the organizations responsible facilitating the leasing of domains from the Internet Domain Registry to a domain registrant.  They allow the registrant to define the which DNS Server is authoritative for the domain

Authoritative Name Server

A name server is a program that converts a domain name into an IP address.  An Authoritative name server is the name server that is considered the definitive source of records for a domain.  The Authoritative Name Server contains the master copy of the Zone Record for the domain from which all other names servers will query.

Zone Record / DNS Records

A zone record is a simple database that defines all the Domain Name System Records for a domain.  Website addresses and mail server addresses are examples of the kinds of information that is stored in a zone record.  These records are served out by the Authoritative Name Server to anyone that requests information for that domain.

DNS Service

A DNS Service is the service that allows a someone to define the DNS Records for a domain.