Your ISP eventually will get told where that IP address is. And then it caches that for a number of days so that not only when you ask for a website, but when other computers that are also using your internet service provider ask, it can immediately tell them. The entire purpose of this is to sort of make it as fast as possible to access the websites that you're looking for and not have to go through this whole DNS system. It's all based on caching and all of this stuff. So anyway, this is a pretty elegant system. The DNS system is a hit and it's working pretty well and it's, most importantly, it's scaling.
In this episode, David sits down to explain how wanting the Pizza.Pizza domain led him down a rabbit hole to discovering some interesting facts about how the internet works. Who decides what domains are available? How much does it cost to start one? And is it true that there are seven people with special keys that control the internet? David gets to the bottom of it all! We hope you enjoy.
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