1.
You type in “www.amazon.com” 2.
Your computer asks its local network’s nameserver
(it knows that already, from its own network configuration)
to tell it the IP for Amazon. 3.
The local NS might already know it, because maybe another
user asked for Amazon two minutes ago. But,
if not...
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1.
You type in “www.amazon.com”