Right now, we can access our API using an IP address. But if we want developers to use our API, we shouldn't expect them to remember a random sequence of numbers! Instead, we want to give them an easy-to-remember domain name such as api.hobnob.social.
To do that, we must first purchase the domain name and then configure its Domain Name System (DNS) settings so that it will resolve to our server's IP address.
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