You seem to forget that Domain Name Resolution became a problem after the more generic Name Resolution (ie Novel/lanman/NetBIOS). The Generic Name resolution sy

You seem to forget that Domain Name Resolution became a problem after the more generic Name Resolution (ie Novel/lanman/NetBIOS). The Generic Name resolution system used lmhosts, which became hosts to more easily associate IPs and names. [0] > Originally these names were stored in and provided by a hosts file but today most such names are part of the hierarchical Domain Name System (DNS). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBIOS#NetBIOS_name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBIOS#NetBIOS_name