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What Are Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) and Punycode?

What Are Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) and Punycode?

A client in Germany registers münchen-bäckerei.de, a shop in Russia runs on a .рф domain, and a Japanese brand wants its name in kanji. They type

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What Is the Difference Between a Domain Registrar and a DNS Host?

What Is the Difference Between a Domain Registrar and a DNS Host?

You log into the company that sold you your domain, add an A record, wait an hour, and nothing changes. Then someone points out that your DNS is actu

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What Are Vanity Name Servers, and Should You Use Them?

What Are Vanity Name Servers, and Should You Use Them?

Look up the nameservers for a domain hosted on Cloudflare and you'll see something like amy.ns.cloudflare.com. Look up a domain managed by a hostin

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How to Flush the DNS Cache on Windows, macOS, and Linux?

How to Flush the DNS Cache on Windows, macOS, and Linux?

You've updated an A record, the new server is live, and your colleague on the other side of the office sees the new site. Your own laptop, though, ke

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How to Clear the DNS Cache in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge?

How to Clear the DNS Cache in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge?

You flushed your operating system's DNS cache, dig shows the new IP address, and yet the browser tab still loads the old server. That's because mod

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What Is the Hosts File, and How Does It Override DNS?

What Is the Hosts File, and How Does It Override DNS?

Before DNS existed, every computer on the ARPANET resolved names using a single text file called HOSTS.TXT, downloaded periodically from a central

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