Mockapetris
Paul Mockapetris is an American computer scientist widely recognized as the designer of the Domain Name System (DNS). Working at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California, he collaborated with Jon Postel to develop a scalable naming system for the Internet.
In 1983 he authored the foundational DNS specifications, published as RFC 882 and RFC 883, which defined
The DNS architecture and its core concepts—zone delegation, recursion, name servers, root, top-level domains, and various
Mockapetris's contributions established the DNS as a foundational technology for Internet naming and have influenced standards,