Why is it that .com is such a widely used suffix to websites, what does it stand for and why does it matter what the suffixes are when the DNS server converts the websites to their respective IP addresses anyways?
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I’m not sure if anyone really answered the second part of your question, but the answer is that DNS is a distributed system. Besides providing handy organization, the root domains provide a way to divide up the work of resolving names to multiple points. It’s not so big of a deal now because of improvements to DNS and the overall advancement of technology.
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