What is DNS?

Is one of the most important technologies/services on the internet, as without it the Internet would be very difficult to use.

DNS provides a name to number (IP address), allowing internet users to use, easy to remember names and not numbers to access resources on a network and the Internet.

For example:  

The website hsselite.com is addressed on the internet to IP Address 74.115.2.251

So if you type, the DNS Server will translate it to 

   and vice-versa to 

In Hotspot Shield, we use Google’s DNS because they are considered a reliable and thorough IP address database that is completely free and fully available to anyone connected to the internet.