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Paul Mockapetris Designs the Domain Name System (DNS)

11/1983

In November 1983 Paul V. Mockapetris of the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California, designed and introduced the Domain Name System (DNS), for ARPANET.  The six original domains were .edu, .gov, .com, .mil, .org, .net, and .int.

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