{"id":5409,"date":"2021-10-24T13:43:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T13:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=5409"},"modified":"2022-12-17T23:58:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T15:58:05","password":"","slug":"what-is-dns","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/help\/what-is-dns\/","title":{"rendered":"What is DNS?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DNS stands for <strong>Domain Name System<\/strong>, and it is the Internet\u2019s way of converting the websites you type in to IP (Internet Protocol) &#8211; in order to reach the destination address and display it back on your browser. DNS makes our lives easier so we don\u2019t have to memorize numeric combinations of IP addresses and alphanumeric codes. We can just type in the website name and it does the rest for us.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To know more about DNS, here are other related articles to check:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/help\/how-does-dns-work\/\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">How does DNS work?<\/span><\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/help\/what-are-the-types-of-dns-records\/\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">What are the types of DNS records?<\/span><\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/help\/how-to-update-dns-records-via-cpanel\/\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">How to update DNS records?<\/span><\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/help\/how-to-update-mx-records\/\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">How to change MX Records?<\/span><\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNS stands for Domain Name System, and it is the Internet\u2019s way of converting the websites you type in to IP (Internet Protocol) &#8211; in order to reach the destination address and display it back on your browser. DNS makes our lives easier so we don\u2019t have to memorize numeric combinations of IP addresses and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[49],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-5409","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-dns"],"year_month":"2026-06","word_count":107,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"syd123","author_nicename":"syd123","author_url":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/author\/syd123\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"DNS","term_url":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/help-category\/dns\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/5409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5409"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/5409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8239,"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/5409\/revisions\/8239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=5409"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=5409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}