Why is DNS a thing? And why is it integrated the way it is with the web infrastructure.

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I understand how it makes everything easy to use and probably has some branding implications but it’s a major source of exploits. We have used phone numbers before and while a b inconvenient wouldn’t using IP addresses directly be much more secure. Or the very least using some decentralized framework rather than DNS servers

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Hosting providers usually have many websites behind the same IP. How distinguish what website the users want to visit?

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