What is an "IP address"?

What is an "IP address"?

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IP stands for Internet Protocol. An IP address is actually the location of a website out in the vast internet on a server. An IP address consists of a series of numbers separated by periods called dots and those numbers represent different places on each server. So when I go to a website, like www.yourwebsite.com, I'm really going to a website that consists of a series of numbers. That's how computers and servers keep track of all these webites. The name is called DNS or domain name service to make it easier for us to remember locations as opposed to having to remember a bunch of numbers.