Internet Domain Names: Background and Policy Issues Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Internet Domain Names: Background and Policy Issues

Creator

  • Author: Kruger, Lennard G.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Specialist in Science and Technology Policy

Publisher

  • Name: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
    Place of Publication: Washington D.C.

Date

  • Creation: 2015-03-06

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: This report discusses the Domain Name System (DNS), which is the distributed set of databases residing in computers around the world that contain address numbers mapped to corresponding domain names, making it possible to send and receive messages and to access information from computers anywhere on the Internet.
  • Physical Description: 34 pages.

Subject

  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Technology
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Internet
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Web sites
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: World Wide Web

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States

Collection

  • Name: Congressional Research Service Reports
    Code: CRSR

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Report

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • CRS Report Number: 97-868
  • Accession or Local Control No: 97-868_2015Mar06
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc503406
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