, but is instead a server provided by a hosting company.</p>
<p>Notice how in the answer section for <code>google.com</code> there was a <code>dns-admin.google.com</code> domain? That's actually not a domain, it's an email address and should be read as <code>dns-admin@google.com</code>. Yep, DNS stores emails in zone files, too. But how do you figure out which one is a hostname and which is an email address? The email address comes last.</p>
<p><code>dig</code> can also be used to query specific name server