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A DNS lookup returns an IP address or a domain name depending on whether it is a forward or reverse lookup. Thus if you have a domain name you can find out its IP number and if you know the IP address you can look up the corresponding domain name.

Nonetheless, when a DNS lookup is done with a particular intention such as finding out the owner of a website, the process does not end with the return of an IP address or domain name. You will need more specific information such as the name and contact details of the domain holder or the location of the IP address. This is where the WHOIS database comes handy. Read more »

In the cyberworld every domain name is associated with a unique IP address. While the domain name is human recognizable (alphanumeric), the IP address is machine-readable. An IP address is a set of four numbers (octets) separated by dots.  The Internet’s domain name system (DNS) maps the domain names to corresponding IP addresses to serve web pages to Internet surfers.

Within a particular top-level domain there are millions of domain names and each of these corresponds to a unique IP address. Similarly, Read more »