DNS Resolver (Recursive Resolver)
The server that takes a domain lookup and walks the DNS hierarchy to return the matching address.
- glossary
A DNS resolver (or recursive resolver) is the server your device asks whenever it needs to turn a domain into an IP address. Public resolvers like 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare) and 8.8.8.8 (Google) do the legwork: starting from the root zone, they query down the DNS hierarchy to the domain's authoritative nameservers, then cache the answer for its TTL. This is the part of DNS that makes "type a name, reach a site" feel instant.
Related keywords
- DNS resolver
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- 8.8.8.8
- 1.1.1.1
- DNS lookup
Contributors
Namefi is a collective of engineers, designers, and operators who obsess over building tools that make managing your onchain domain names effortless.
Victor Zhou is a technology founder and standards editor focused on digital identity and trust. He founded Namefi, edits Ethereum Improvement Proposals, and previously led smart-contract architecture work at Google Labs.
His work sits at the intersection of naming, ownership, and the systems people use to establish identity online. That perspective makes him especially interested in the way names move between personal meaning, public recognition, and digital infrastructure.
For Namefi, Victor edits and writes about domains as durable digital identity: how names become ownable onchain assets, how tokenization changes custody and trust, and what naming can learn from the systems people use to establish identity online.