Who is the owner of all the .com domain names? When I’m paying for one, what does the company actually do in order to generate it for me? It’s not like they’ve already have it and they’ll just hand it over to me. It never existed in the first place.
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reddits server isnt actually called reddit. its called something like 151.101.65.140 or whatever (not exectly sure what reddits true name is).
So each time you want to go to reddit, you have to type in those numbers. Same goes for every other website.
But thats too hard. So what you are doing is typing in old.reddit.com and your browser knows the difference. Your browser knows that you are not directly looking about the Server IP (the numbers), but a “nickname” of the server. Your browser knows where you can find the true name of the server. Its in a list.
So your broweser checks the list about old.reddit.com and finds out the true name is 151.101.65.140 (or whatever) and starts to contact this IP.
You are paying for whoever has the List. To maintain this list is expensive.
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