Paul Mockapetris

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Paul Mockapetris is an American computer scientist best known for his pioneering work in the development of the Domain Name System (DNS), which is a fundamental component of the internet's infrastructure. In the early 1980s, he designed the DNS protocol, which translates human-readable domain names (like www.example.com) into numerical IP addresses that computers use to identify each other on the network.

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