50,000 trillion trillion addresses per person. That should be enough.
IDEA No 20
THE DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a system for identifying a device connected to the internet. It translates numerical IP addresses into easily memorized domain names.
In the early days, there were only a few hosts (computers) connected to the internet. Each had a numerical address, listed in a central text file maintained by Stanford Research Institute. Everyone on the network had to copy the host.txt file daily to get the latest version. As more networks joined the internet, this became impractical.
In 1983, Paul Mockapetris was set the task of designing a scaleable way of assigning and recording internet addresses. He came up with the Domain ...
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